The boys came out and played 2 very nice matches to take both their Pre-Quarter and the Quarter Finals matches and advance to the Semi-Finals on Thursday night this week.
In the first match, the team won against St. Ambrose and all of the boys managed to see action on the court. We had strong hitting from the starters followed up by solid play by every boy that came in to take the team through the first match. We were led for the match in serving by Marc G. with 12 good and 4 of those for ace followed by Mike S. with 6 good and 3 for ace. Passing were were led by both Mike S. and Austin K. both with 12 and setting by Mike S. with 15 sets. Hitting was led by Marc G. with 10 and 2 of those for kill, Mike P. with 9 and 5 of them for kill and Wyatt W. with 7 and 2 of those for kill. Statistics for this match are found here.
In the second match against Sacred Heart #1 we won 25-15 and the team played extremely well together and did a superb job of passing the balls to the setters. The setters, Alex H. and Mike S. did a great job of getting us into hitting positions and Mike P. and Marc G. did a solid job of hitting the ball for points and Wyatt W. made some nice net plays. In the second game in particular our serving was again a strength and we put that game away in good fashion. Jake C. and Spenser H. both had great serving to help bring home this match. In the first game, Marc G. got us started by getting points on his first 9 serves and led serving that game followed by Alex H. with 7. Setting in game 1 was led by Mike S. with 10. Passing was led by Peter J. with 7 and Jake C. with 6. Hitting was led by Mike P. with a dominating performance of 11 hits of which 6 went for kill followed by Marc G. with 8 and 3 of those for kill.
In the second game against Sacred Heart #1 we won 25-4 and it seemed that we could do almost no wrong. Jake C. led us in serving with 9 good ones followed by Spenser H. who took us out with 4 good ones but 3 were un-returned for ace. We only used 5 servers this game. Setting was led by Alex H. with 5 and passing was weak as we dominated the volleys and we were led by Mike S. and Jake C. both with 3 each. Hitting was dominated by Mike P. again with 7 and 2 for kill followed by Alex H. who hit 3 and 2 for kill on volley attacks at the net. Statistics for this match are found here.
We will return Thursday at 5pm to play a Semi-Final match against St. Andrews #1 and the winner will move into the Finals match for the league championship. The boys need to continue to play solid team ball which will give them a good opportunity to advance.
