| Riga Ladies 2 entertained high flying Division
one side , Wessex , in the cup on Sunday at St. Nicholas Park. |
| The visitors found Riga in generous mood as the
match started - we gave away a sackful of points with a run of serves that
were out and more net touches in the first set than all our 5 league game
put together. Despite this start, the Riga team managed to get to 18 points
before Wessex took the set - makes you wonder what we would have achieved if
we hadn't conceded so many free points. Set 2 saw Riga play some excellent
volleyball as we settled into the game and Wessex had to use all their big
hitters to pull away into the lead. However, Riga lost the set, 25-11
despite starting to find some Wessex gaps with some intelligent hitting and
strong blocking. |
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Set 3 saw Riga take the lead 8-6 as we played our
best volleyball of the day. Our team work was excellent, we kept the
noise up and had some cracking attacks.
Driven on by the incentive of reaching 20 points, we held the division
one side for most of the set. We lost the set 25-20 but the overall
performance was impressive and it was good experience to pit ourselves against Division 1 opposition. |
| So a good day for the team and everyone
can take a great deal of credit for this performance. The team can now
concentrate on the league and our next game is away to Brentwood on Dec 1st
. This will be the classic 6 pointer as Riga are currently top and
Brentwood are second. |
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| Sarah Halling |