I hope you're enjoying your Labor Day weekend. We got back from Oklahoma at 9 pm Saturday night and I've been in the office yesterday and today watching film so we can identify what we have to work on.
Let me give you a quick recap. After we beat Tyler, we had a revenge game against Paris Saturday night. We won the first game and were right with them in game 2. Unfortunately, of their last 6 points, we had 5 hitting errors/missed serves. We lost 28-26. Tough to beat a good team when we make mistakes on our side of the net. Paris then kept the foot on the gas pedal and we couldn't respond and lost in 4.
We turned around and played at 8 am the next morning and lost to Redlands in 3. It was not our best match and it went against our goal of improving as a team and individuals. We can't improve if we don't work hard at the things we can control.
Our final match was against Seward County. We played very well and won game 1 25-19. Then we were up 24-21 in game 2 and our inexperience showed up as we made 3 hitting errors in a row. We lost games 2, 3 and 4 by 2 points each. Seward did a good job of putting pressure on us and we did not execute as well as we should have.
The good news is that this is all fixable in practice and with repetition. I have no doubt we will improve this week before our next big match at home versus Navarro on Thursday. If we work hard we can be so good, it just takes the extra effort we are all learning to give.
Final thoughts:
- Ardmore, Oklahoma was fantastic.
- Great breakfast at the hotel in El Reno. I had a bowl of bacon each morning.
- We'll have a video up this week of one the freshmen.
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