Volleyball Week 1 Setstacular vs Hungry Hungry Hippos

First week of play-it’s a good match up between the Setstacular vs. Hungry Hungry Hippos, Coed A league. The game scheduled for 7pm on court 1 of the armory. Before the game both teams talk strategy about who will do what and so on also who will play what position. Setstacular has three subs and Hungry Hungry Hippos have zero subs.

Setstacular starts with the ball and looks very athletic. Some of the girls on the team look like they have played volleyball in high school. Mark Cwalinskil starts serving for Setstacular, scoring 5 consecutive points to start the game. That’s when Hungry Hungry Hippos get lucky and get a point. However, the Hungry Hungry Hippos look to be a bit confused and cannot seem to get things going. Lindsay Snellar of the Setstacular looks to a very good server for her team and scores several points for her team. Setstacular are dominating the first game by a huge margin 15-6. But it looks like Hungry Hungry Hippos look to be making a comeback making it 15-11. It looks like the Hungry Hungry Hippos are getting hungry so Setstacular needs to get focused before they blow the lead. So now looks very talented with his serving, making the lead bigger 22-11. Both teams have had very nice rally during the game. The first game ends with the Setstacular winning 25-18.

Game two starts with Hungry Hungry Hippos having first serves. This game looks like it’s going to be a totally different story than game one with them taking a 3-0 lead- then they serve one long to make it 3-1. Samuel Schlesinger looks to step it up for Hungry Hungry Hippos and has made consecutive points making it 10-5. Both teams have more rallies this games as well. Both teams are also being good sportsmen, not getting mad at making bad shots. Now Setstacular now tie the game up 10-10. “Sets” take the lead 11-10 and the HHH tie the game 12-12. At one point Randall of the “Sets” and Samuel of HHH have a nice play at the net and show good sportsmanship, and even give each other a high-five after making a good play. Earlier in Game 2 it looked like the “Sets” looked to be confused a bit. Even the Captain of “Sets” Megan Frey made a comment about her team trying to get everyone organized and find everyone’s strengths and weaknesses and trying different systems to see which one worked and where each other should be, etc. Then Setstacular makes it an 18-13 lead and never looks back, winning the second game 25-16 and winning the match 2-0.

With regards to being game of the week Frey had this to say, “Totally a surprise but good defiantly nerve racking for our first game together, but good.”