The Debut!

Well it was an interesting week. To start off 1 of our last 2 middles injured his quad and we decided not to risk him, but to save him for playoffs the next week. So this left us with the replacement options as Steffan from the 2nd team, and Myself. However.... me decided to get Marcus Nitschke who retired a couple of years to go (he used to captain the team) to come back and play a one-off game. So he gets to training on thursday, trains for an hour, gets hit in the thumb and does something to the capsule.......can't play on the weekend!

So I became the new middle in an important match against #3 ranked SCC Berlin.....It was always going to be interesting!

Actually in the end it wasn't to bad. My attacking was actually pretty good (8 from 9) And although I was lost a little from time to time in blocking it wasn't by any means awful. (although I didn't get a block) I was helped with our serving for most of the game, and middle will know playing against a prefect pass in this day and age is really tough.

We ended up winning the game in 4. We won the first pretty convincinly due to our strong serving and some good plays. However we then went downhill rapidly.... SCC Started to play better, and play more quick over me after they realized I wasn't really a blocking middle! So we changed rotation a little for the 3rd and we were back in business. Jordan came on and did a good job with his distribution (Putting him to the top of the setters in the Bundesliga ranking system......he will love that) Our outsides did a solid job, nothing special but effective enough. Mads had a pretty good all round game. Oh yeh.... the 4th set, umm yep pretty at the end after we threw away an 8-3 lead. Andy got a block near the end to give us a break and then we were never headed.

So a good victory, unfortunatelly in the end it probably meant nothing. We neeeded Unterhaching to lose a few sets or the match, but they won 3-1. So now they only have to beat Netzhoppers (10th) to go through... and they should. However we have a match against Eltmann as a good warm-up for playoffs. They have the ability to go from 6th-8th so they have something to play for. Hopefully we can put them in their place!