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Friday, October 8, 2010

Away Game vs. Solano Community College 10/8/2010

Well, today is the 17th birthday for my youngest, so Happy Birthday Hannah!  Here we are in Fairfield, home of the Solano Falcons.  This team along with Napa and ourselves represent the top tier in our conference.  So I'm expecting a very tough match tonight.  As usual, we'll have to do it with a cheer squad of 3 in the stands.  Solano seems to have a small contingent of fans drifting in, so we will be outnumbered, but not out-voiced!  Looking over the Falcon roster I see a couple familiar faces.  At least two of their players came from Vacaville Christian High which was our fiercest rival the last 3 years in High School.  So if we see K9 snarling at the net, there might be a reason.  Wait, it looks like we might have a couple of boyfriend fans who have shown up, our cheer squad just doubled in size!  We may need it.  Almost game time, let's go 9er's!!!!!

Game 1: Looks like Megan will be starting us off at the service line.  Guess we've been on a roll winning the coin toss lately.  Net serve, down 0-1.  Not a good start.  Hailey hits out, 0-2.  Bad serve receive, 0-3.  Hailey loses a joust at the net, 0-4.  Hailey comes back with a deep slap down the middle, 1-4 with Judy in to serve.  Double on Solano, 2-4.  Solano rips one down line through K9, 2-5.  Carry call on Hailey, 2-6.  K9 gets an overpass to fall, 3-6 with Alisha to serve.  Solano hits out, 4-6.  We hit one in the net, 4-7.  Bad serve receive, 4-8.  Solano goes sharp angle, 4-9 and Coach Chapman wants a timeout to talk things over.  We need to crank up the intensity.  Solano hits out, 5-9 with Hailey to serve.  Solano hits long, 6-9.  Ace by Hailey, 7-9.  Solano in the net while blocking Megan, 8-9.  Solano finds a hole, 8-10.  They serve net, 9-10 with Taylor to serve.  Hailey hits long from the back row, 9-11.  Double call on us, 9-12.  A block by us, but it lands out, 9-13.  Net serve, 10-13 with K9 to serve.  Alisha gets a sharp angle to go, 11-13.  Lift call on us, 11-14.  Brit gets one down, 12-14 with Megan to serve.  Solano finds another hole, 12-15.  K9 hits wide from the back row, 12-16.  Net serve by Solano, 13-16 with Judy in to serve.  Ace right on the line, 14-16.  Solano finds that hole again, 14-17.  Net call on us, 14-18.  Alisha makes them pay with a kill, 15-18.  Alisha to serve.  Solano hits out, 16-18.  Solano gets one to fall in on a tip, 16-19.  Net call on us again, 16-20.  Stuff by Solano, 16-21.  Hailey rips one down, 17-21 with Hailey to serve.  Net call on us again, these refs need new glasses. 17-22.  Double call on us, 17-23.  Taylor gets one on a dump, 18-23.  I am seeing some attitude coming out on the floor due to the refs making so many phantom net calls.  If the girls will just channel that aggression, we can use it.  Taylor to serve.  Solano hits in to the net, 19-23.  Net serve on us, 19-24.  K9 rips one down line from the right side, 20-24 with K9 to serve.  Solan rips one down, 20-25 and we are down in the first game.  Need to pick it up and come out strong in the next one to get back in this.

Game 2:  Solano has the serve to start game 2.  Long rally to start and Solano lets one hit the net, 1-0 with Judy serving.  We hit one in the net, 1-1.  Bad serve receive, 1-2.  Hailey rips one and it's 2-2.  Alisha to serve.  Alisha gets a real slow one to fall from the back row, 3-2.  Hailey finds a hole for a tip, 4-2.  Alisha hits one in the net, 4-3.  Hailey tips another in a hole, 5-3.  Hailey to serve.  Solano gets one to go deep, 5-4.  We let one just fall on serve receive and it's 5-5.  Solano goes down line and we are down 5-6.  Solano rips one in the middle, 5-7.  We can't receive a serve, 5-8.  We hit the antenna, 5-9.  Starting to choke up out there.  Solano serves long, 6-9 with Taylor to serve.  Lift call on Solano, 7-9.  Solano swipes one off our block, 7-10.  They serve net, 8-10 with K9 to serve.  Solano hits one in the net, 9-10.  Solano gets one off a touch on us, 9-11.  Megan hits one long, 9-12.  Hailey hits long from the back row, 9-13.  We blow another serve receive, 9-14.  Timeout 49er's.  And it's another blown serve receive, 9-15.  Ace by Solano, 9-16.  Net serve by Solano, 10-16 with Megan to serve.  Double call on Solano, 11-16.  Out of rotation call on Solano, 12-16.  Big block by Brit and Hailey, 13-16.  Solano finds a hole, 13-17.  Solano is in the net, 14-17 with Judy to serve. Solano hits one in the net, 15-17.  Solano gets one off our block, 15-18.  Solano gets one off a touch on our back row, 15-19.  Alisha rips one cross court, 16-19 with Alisha to serve.  Solano hits wide, 17-19.  Alisha serves in the net, 17-20.  Bad serve receive, 17-21.  Bad serve receive with an overpass that Solano slaps back down, 17-22.  Double call on us, 17-23.  Net serve by Solano, 18-23.  Hailey to serve.  It's in the net, 18-24.  K9 gets a tip to land on the line, 19-24 with Taylor to serve.  Long serve and we lose 19-25.  We really need to stop hurting ourselves.  If we eliminate the fixable errors, we are running with this team.

Game 3:  Megan will lead us off serving.  Solano dinks over our block, 0-1.  Hailey gets a dink to fall, 1-1 with Judy in to serve.  Ace, 2-1.  We shank a pass, 2-2.  Lift call on us, 2-3.  Solano serves out, 3-3 with Alisha to serve.  K9 gets a tip to fall, 4-3.  Alisha serves long, 4-4.  Bad serve receive, 4-5.  We are slow on a dink, 4-6.  K9 rips one down line, 5-6 with Hailey serving.  Taylor slaps one down, 6 all.  Solano sends one down, 6-7.  K9 gets another one down line, 7-7 with Taylor serving.  K9 gets a left handed save to go down, 8-7.  Megan gets a big block, 9-7.  Timout Solano!  Taylor serves.  Solano hits wide, 10-7 after a long rally.  Megan and Brit stuff one back on them, 11-7.  Controversial call, but Solano gets the point 11-8.  Megan gets one down, 12-8 with K9 to serve.  Brit hits long, 9-12.  Brit makes it count on the next one, 13-9 with Megan to serve.  Alisha slaps one off the block, 14-9.  Megan serves long, 14-10.  Solano rips one, 14-11.  Hailey gets a tip to fall, 15-11 with Judy in to serve.  We let one fall, 15-12.  Solano rips one, 15-13.  We cannot receive a serve, 15-14 and Coach Chapman wants to talk it over, timeout Yuba.  Solano serves long, 16-14 with Alisha to serve.  Solano slaps one through our block, 16-15.  We let another serve recieve fall, 16 all.  Solano serves net, Hailey to serve, 17-16.  Solano slaps one back, 17 all.  K9 gets one down line, 18-17 with Taylor to serve.  Brit and Megan stuff one bigtime, 19-17.  Solano fights back and it's 19-18.  Bad serve receive with an over pass and it's 19 all.  We don't follow an overpass and it's 19-20.  Solano gets one when our block lands out, 19-21.  K9 hits out, 19-22.  Timeout Yuba!  Relax and just play hard ladies.  We can do this!  Megan hits one in the net, 19-23.  Self inflicted wounds!  Bad passing and a mishit by us, 19-24.  Solano gets one off our block to end the game, 19-25. 

Well, we've played both of the top teams in the conference and lost both times.  We will have to pick it up if we're going to compete with these teams.  No excuses, but we are an all freshman team and most of the teams we're playing are loaded with sophomores.  Still, if we stop hurting ourselves, we can compete.

That's all from here, we're packing it up and heading home.

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