What can I say??? We walked into Notre Dame de Namur’s gym thinking we had it easy last night, but we thought wrong. They were ready for a dog fight and they weren't giving up. It had been almost 3 weeks since we’d last played them and they’ve been to 3 good tournaments: ours, the UCSD tournament, and the Billings, Montana tournament where they played teams such as Chico, UCSD, CSUSB, and Montana State Billings. They had improved since we last saw them at our tournament wheree defeated them easily in 3 games. It was a different story last night.
First off, we didn’t have our starting setter, junior Lindsay Brown, due to a sprained ankle from Saturday night's game at Chico, but sophomore Devin Scully, put out tons of effort on the court to make up for the absence of Brown. Scully did her best to get the job done as our setter last night and it wasn’t too bad. Knowing that Devin hasn’t set since her senior year in high school, we knew that everyone was going to have to help her out. As a team, we came out nervous, slow, and shocked. Coach Bear wasn’t kidding when he said, “They’re gunning for us.” We weren’t expecting balls to be slammed or tough floater serves, but we finally turned on our engine and started to burn some rubber and soon it was a race to the finish line. Despite the fact that we lost the first game 28-26, we came back strong and won games 2 and 3. We then lost game 4 with our errors, but in the end we defeated the Argonauts for the 2nd time this year, taking game 5 with a strong finish (15-7) , and driving home with a 9-1 record!!!
We play Cal State LA Thursday night at 7pm and they are also 2-0 in conference. We’ll see what happens with Lindsay Brown still injured, but hopefully we, as a team, will have faith, determination, and commitment to believe that no matter who is on the court we will find the power to win!!!
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