Big, big weekend for Calumet Volleyball

Wow.

Not just one tournament championship, but two. Yes, two. Wow.

Well, let's start on Friday, at Lake Hills Baptist. The JV tournament began at 1:00 PM with pool play. Calumet didn't play until 5, as the other pool did their Friday play first. Their first opponent was Schaumburg, who turned out to be tough. At least the first game. Calumet squeaked by 25-24 in the first game, but won easily in the second, 21-13. At seven the girls took on Heritage, who is becoming our biggest rival. Heritage won the tournament last year, and continue to be tough. Heritage turned out to be victorious in this one, 21-17, 21-18. This set things up for Saturday, with the possibility of there being three teams tied with 4-2 pool records in Calumet's pool.

I wasn't able to be there for Saturday's game, but got regular text updates from Kelsey and Kristi. Calumet took care of business in their Saturday pool play, defeating Southside twice, and then Heritage took the floor against Schaumburg. If Schaumburg defeated Heritage twice, it wouldn't look good for Calumet in the tie-breakers. Thankfully, Heritage took game one from Schaumburg, ensuring CCS of finishing second in their pool and qualifying for bracket play.

Calumet's opponent in the semi-finals was Grace, suprisingly to some. Quentin Road always has a tough JV team, winning the tournament two years ago and coming in second last year. But Grace topped them in their pool and finished first. Calumet dropped the first one in a close game, 21-19. The second game was quite different, with CCS winning easily 21-10. In the third there was a little controversy. One document indicated that the third game was supposed to be to 15, and in another place it said 21. So Calumet got to fifteen, while Grace was at nine or so, and Calumet began to celebrate. Not so fast. After some discussion, it was decided to play to 21. Grace then made a little run, but CCS held them off 21-17 to win. Again, kind of.

Quentin Road then deprived CCS the opporunity to avenge Friday's loss to Heritage by beating Heritage in three, which set up the final. For some reason I don't have the scores for this game, but I believe that the Patriots lost the first, then won two straight for the championship. We believe that this the first time CCS won their own tournament. I'll have to check this with Coach Carr. Also, we believe that this is the first time that CCS played in their JV tournament without Coach Carr on the bench.

On to the varsity. I'll post separately for that one.