Leicestershire League
Friday 22nd November 2019 PVC 3 Leicester Athena 0 (25-12, 25-13, 25-9) Athena's local league team showed definite signs of progress in their second loss to PVC in 3 weeks ago. This time, Athena had an even less experienced team and they showed glimpses of excellent volleyball. They started the first set with Charlie and Ioana as setters, Anna and Sab as middle hitters and Eve and Maria as outside hitters. They started much quieter than the first match and they played with a degree of nervousness. Arms jabbed at the ball, hitters snatched at opportunities and PVC managed to established a strong lead through accurate serving. At 22-11 down, Coach Paul put 15 year old Barbora on for her first ever adult match as she replaced Anna. Despite her obvious nervousness, she still made a couple of good passes. Athena reverted to their starting six for the second set and started much better. They passed better, chased and were able to win the scrappy points. Midway through the match, Athena were still in the set, but then the nervousness crept back in and they struggled to cope with a series of serves from Jacob. Evie replaced Eve to make her debut at 16 years old. For the third set, Eve had to look after her baby meaning that Evie started the set - a big responsibility for such a young player. Despite that, she threw herself into the match admittedly, helped by her elder players coaxing her through the rotations. Barbora then replaced a fading Sab and we finished the match with 2 juniors on court. Despite the loss, Coach Paul was delighted with some of the play, especially the penultimate point where Anna went on an arc route through to smash a winner through the middle. Very high quality volleyball. A big well done to Ioana who played despite feeling pretty rubbish because of a cold. Well done to Anna who is starting to show the quality she demonstrates in training on match days. There was a lot of stuff to work on, but most importantly, there are signs of a very good team coming together.
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