Match Report BM V HIK

BM 3 HIK 0 25-20, 25-13, 25-20

As i said in the last post an important game and a good win from the team. The first set started of rather slowly, losing the first 4 points. Slowly but surely we were able to bounce back with some good blocking and hitting, especially through the middle. It was pretty even going into the 20's, but we managed to make a few plays to take the set to 20. I'm not sure what happened to HIK in the 2nd set, they they really started to struggle to get good blocks up for our hitters. Our over the top combination plays were working well and a run of 5 kill blocks in a row always helps the situation. Runaway winners to 13 in this set.
We knew the 3rd set was always going to be tough. One thing I've learnt from playing HIK is they always bounce back, and have the players to turn a match to their advantage in any situation. Again similar to the first set HIK took a slight lead and after maybe 14 side-outs in row we were able to make a transition play, only to see us lose a transition play the next point. After a few good serves at about the 17 mark we took a 2 point lead, with a couple more blocks at the end from toke (who at times looked as if he was putting on a blocking clinic) the set ended up 25-20 in our favour, although it could just of easily been much closer.
So all in all a good win, great play from the middles all round, Stu recorded some great blocks throughout the match, jordan set some great options and jesper and BT were solid in their passing the whole game. I know personally I could of had a much better game, but fortunatelly the rest of the boys did the job. Just hope to pick it up for the big game on Sunday.