Tough Times at Home

From my last post we had high expectations to get our level of consistency in matches to be better.  In turn hoping that the wins and losses would take care of themselves if we made it be that the opponent beat us rather than us give away around 15 points per game in errors. I must say that overall we have cleaned up our play and earned more set wins when doing that.  Now that next step is to close out matches with confidence and a killer instinct.

We went 1-3 at our tournament on Sept. 7-8, which was not the plan at all.  We had some big troubles with giving away points early in sets and putting ourselves in too big of a hole to come out of late.  The awareness of the value of every point was not with us that weekend.

We opened up GPAC play by hosting Dordt College on Wednesday Sept. 12.  Dordt has always been a very high quality team in the conference and this year is no difference. They were a very solid blocking team and had an MH that had a great match at the net.  We added to it with a lot of reception errors which was not the norm for how our season had been going to that point.  We had been very solid as a serve receive team most of the season. We finished the match playing well and forcing Dordt into more mistakes and we began to put more balls away but fell short in the end.  It was also not a great ending as junior Sam Sandau injured her ankle in one of the last 3 points of the match. She was playing a very solid match and contributing so much to our team.

We now have a week off until we play Morningside next Wednesday.  We have to look at a new lineup and come up with some ways to earn points aggressively.  It is a big week for us with some winnable matches.

Keep checking our facebook page and our Twitter (@DWUVB) page for quick bits of information.  We also have a YouTube page DWUVolleyball.  There you can find funny videos from our team normally.

I'll talk to you next week.

- Coach V