On Tues, 5/11, we went to St. Greg's and ended up loosing a very tough, 3-game match. In the end, we failed to side out their last two servers for a total of 11 serves which was our un-doing in the 3rd game to do down to defeat. St. Greg's played a phenominal game and deserve much credit. Their serving and blocking were phenominal this day and much improved from the previous day.
In the first game, we lost 25-21. We were led in serving by Jake C. with 5 and Spenser H. with 4. We only netted 1 serve all game, but were not serving particularly hard balls as we only recorded 6 aces which is low for us. We were leading the game 11-7 when we gave up a 9 serve run to their #6 server followed by 3 more to their #7 server to cost us the game. Passing was led by Peter J. with 12 and Alex H. with 9. Setting was led by Mike S. with 6 but we weren't passing into good positions which hurt us. Hitting was led by Marc G. with 11 of which 2 were for kill and Mike P. with 6 but 4 of those were for kill.
In the second game we won 25-21 although again we gave up a big serve run of 7 points to their #10 server. We were up 21-14 before he served and up 22-21 afterwards but prevailed as Spenser H. served out the game next. Serving was led by Mike P. with 6 and 3 of those for ace followed by an even effort by most everybody else. Setting was led by Alex H. with 8 while passing was led by Alex H. with 8, and both Jake C. and Marc G. with 6. Hitting was led by Mike P. with 9 hits of which 7 were for kill!
In the third game, we folded after taking a lead as noted above. Today just wasn't our day for siding out the opponent and ultimately cost us the match. We were leading 17-13 before their last two servers came up and we failed to side out a total of 11 points. We weren't doing a good job defensively as again we were led in serving by Alex H. with 4 and 2 other with 3, so we weren't protecting our serves. Setting was led by Mike S. with 11 and passing by Marc G. and Alex H. with 6 each. Mike P. led hitting with 13 and 5 of those for kill. The statistics for this match are found here.
