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Well, Texas swept Florida earlier this year, but all the sets were tight, and it was a long time ago. Florida had recently lost a key hitter and was still adapting their line-up. We were still playing a 6-2 and experimenting with the second middle; Molly didn’t even play that match, and of course, she’s now a starter.
We had some bright spots. We hit .313 as a team, Khat went off for .533, Bailey had 13 K’s and Haley had 16. We out-served them and out-blocked them.
On the other side, they hit .314 – a touch higher than us - and out-dug us. If they had cleaned up their service errors and receiving errors, some of those tight games might have turned out differently.
Their kill leader – by a wide margin – is #9 outside hitter Živa Recek , but she hits only .263, is only 6’0”, and is a frosh. How did she get 22 kills and .475 against us? Maybe she’s the world’s best sh!t-shotter? I assume we line Sha’ up against her if we can, and maybe we slot in Maddy Hutson sometimes for that big right-side block like we’ve been seeing for a while.
Florida’ve got two 6’2” feisty middles, Chloe Mann and Betsy Smith, who can both hit for big numbers. But seems like to me Khat and Molly can both hold their own, and then some.
Molly, by the way, seems to have really come into her own; she’s the real deal. She’s banging .386, blocks nearly once a set, and is in the groove on the slide. Yah, won’t Molly and Sha’ bang the slide to death over a 6 foot OH?
They’ve got this big 6’4” right side, Tangerine Wiggs, third on the team in kills, .376, but she only got 4 kills against us the first time. Maybe we rotate Bailey on her, hang a big roof over her.
In addition to Živa, their middle tier front row players are freshmen: Gabby Mallette, Berkley Whaley and Simone Antwi (RS). If we get a big, rowdy Gregory crowd, we put the psych-out on them.
So yeah, we gotta handle Živa and Chloe Mann and Tangerine, but the main thing is our passing and serving.
With good passing, we get our high altitude thing rolling, Bailey & Haley, and then Molly and Khat and Sha’s are popping the slide, and then we get jazzed, and then we start blocking, and then, dang it, we roll.
Should be fun-fun-fun in Gregory!
We had some bright spots. We hit .313 as a team, Khat went off for .533, Bailey had 13 K’s and Haley had 16. We out-served them and out-blocked them.
On the other side, they hit .314 – a touch higher than us - and out-dug us. If they had cleaned up their service errors and receiving errors, some of those tight games might have turned out differently.
Their kill leader – by a wide margin – is #9 outside hitter Živa Recek , but she hits only .263, is only 6’0”, and is a frosh. How did she get 22 kills and .475 against us? Maybe she’s the world’s best sh!t-shotter? I assume we line Sha’ up against her if we can, and maybe we slot in Maddy Hutson sometimes for that big right-side block like we’ve been seeing for a while.
Florida’ve got two 6’2” feisty middles, Chloe Mann and Betsy Smith, who can both hit for big numbers. But seems like to me Khat and Molly can both hold their own, and then some.
Molly, by the way, seems to have really come into her own; she’s the real deal. She’s banging .386, blocks nearly once a set, and is in the groove on the slide. Yah, won’t Molly and Sha’ bang the slide to death over a 6 foot OH?
They’ve got this big 6’4” right side, Tangerine Wiggs, third on the team in kills, .376, but she only got 4 kills against us the first time. Maybe we rotate Bailey on her, hang a big roof over her.
In addition to Živa, their middle tier front row players are freshmen: Gabby Mallette, Berkley Whaley and Simone Antwi (RS). If we get a big, rowdy Gregory crowd, we put the psych-out on them.
So yeah, we gotta handle Živa and Chloe Mann and Tangerine, but the main thing is our passing and serving.
With good passing, we get our high altitude thing rolling, Bailey & Haley, and then Molly and Khat and Sha’s are popping the slide, and then we get jazzed, and then we start blocking, and then, dang it, we roll.
Should be fun-fun-fun in Gregory!
