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Riga ladies second team faced a tough final home game against TH Lynx,
with the Londoners looking for a win that would take them up to Division
2. The first set was close with each team matching each other until the
star server from lynx established a 7 point lead. This burst took
the opposition clear and Lynx won the first set 25 - 18. |
Net action from the 1st set
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Clare prepares to set
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A more determined Riga attitude set in for the second set and Ruth Hosking
was soon finding her range with a series of winning spikes. The
whole team was playing really well and a very noisy bench was
providing great encouragement - Nora served brilliantly to win Riga 5
points and take us to set point and Riga took the set comprehensively, 25
- 15. Great support was also received from the impressive crowd - thank
you Jane !!!!!!! |
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Lynx were clearly rattled and they attacked right from the start of the
3rd set and soon had a 10 point lead - however Tina then came to
serve for Riga and a run a strong serves, coupled with better Riga
attacking cut the deficit back to just 3 points. Lynx's stronger
hitting took over again and despite some great back court pick ups from
Steph and Ruth G, Lynx took the set 25 - 15. |
TH Lynx under pressure
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One that got away
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The 4th set saw Ginny make her debut as off setter as Clare continued as
main setter for the team. A strange thing happened in this set - Riga's
traditional star blockers decided to let others grab the glory. A long
rally saw 3 successive Riga blocks from Ana and Clare - even though the
point was lost - it was good to see the blocks happening as the team have
been working on this in training. Another training drill was translated into the match by Steph who
produced a good winning spike from a poor pass from TH Lynx.
The set ended disappointedly for Riga as a series of unforced errors on
the Riga attack saw Lynx win the set , 25 - 14 and take the match 3 -1 . |
| Our final games are on April 7th in Essex and other
results have recently gone against us - leaving the team second from
bottom - but still with 2 games to go we have the chance to improve on our
league position.
We departed to a local pizza restaurant to say goodbye to Tina and Nora
and to eat loads of pizza and fudge cake - and for Ruthie to do a very
strong "I am p****d impression" on the walk back to the car park - despite
only drinking water all night. Obviously just a warm up for her
forthcoming hen party... |
Riga take a timeout to do some yodelling
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The team together for the last time
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Nora making her farewell speech
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