Match V Moers

Well this was by far the biggest game for the season. Moers at home, undefeated and playing very well. And ourselves were starting to get a wriggle on after that 1st loss to Unterhaching. After initial troubles of not being able to find the stadium and driving around Moers in all directions for about half an hour, we finally made it to the stadium. Warm up was solid and we were really pumped and ready to go come game time. It was really nice to get a full house (maybe 800 ppl) to the game.
the first set started well for us with a quick 4-1 lead, this quickly spread to about 6 points at about 13-7, then Moers started to fight back. Led by their opposite Grozer (who hit some of the best balls i've ever seen) they game back to 15-16. We then however gained some control and finished strong 25-20.
The second set was a much closer affair. It was point for point for a while and then a run of good serves from our side gave us a handy 3 point lead. Hover just before the 2nd technical timeout team Grozer was able to pull it back to 16-14 in their favour. After a few good transition plays it was even heading to the end of the set. Having a few set points of serve suddenly Moers made there own play from serve and had a set point. After a side out Artur then went back to serve. 1st serve was a great serve down the seam and he let everybody know about it as Moers called a timeout. The timeout did nothing to Artur's momentum as he smashed another ace to give us a 2-0 lead and leave Moers slightly crushed after seeing the set taken away from them.
The 3rd set was absoluttely awesome from our guys.......till we were 20-11 up! A great serving run from Mads started us off, and then everyone else joined in with blocks, great swings and more great serving. It looked all over and then Grozer went back to serve. Along with some good aces we were unable to side-out for about 5 points, however things still looked rosy at 20-16 up. From then on we just seemed to lose a point here and there but it was soon 24-21 our way. A side out from Moers and we had 2 match point balls. Peter hit 1 long and Artur hit one maybe 3 inches out, suddenly it was 24 all, and it looked like we were about to lost the unloseable set! However we held our composure and began to sideout efficently, eventually a low set to Grozer was hit into Dirk's block and the match was ours 3-0. It was a bit of a scare but in the end it was a good 3-0 win against a quality team away from home. This win moves us up into 3rd place and with a win on sunday we could almost be up to 2nd. exciting times lay in store!