The End of Volleyball

The intramural volleyball season has officially come to a close as our team missed the playoffs.

Here's the run down on how it all went down:
Week #1 vs Cookiewich
This was our first match playing together and even though the point margin was close we ended up dropping the the first two games and the match.

Week #2 vs Cruisin to a Kill
Once again it was a tight first game with one too many shanks followed by a huge let down in the second game to seal our second consecutive loss of the intramural season. On the positive side I recorded my first solo block!

Week #3 vs Indy Team aka The All European team
By far probably our worst match of the year against a team that we should have played better and possibly should have beat, but it's hard not to be intimidated by a team consisting of the best intramural volleyball players at UCSB from every corner of the European continent. They we're fairly psycho with their short shorts, knee pads, and faux hawks. Our roster was short two because of travelling. This is how bad it was; halfway through the first game one of their guys rotated out and went to go play with another team on the court next to us. Needless to say we got smashed and as the match hit the second game they just started looking at us in this how is your team even allowed to play intramural. All bad and no good here people.

Week #4 vs Team Radical
Our roster was back at full strength and by this point we really just wanted to win one game this intramural season, screw winning a match, just one game! As usual we played the first game close, but still lost to this team of undergraduates that obviously just transitioned from the beach. Once again a meltdown in the second game killed any chance we may have had at achieving our goal of winning a game. In a side note on the second point of the first game I went to dig a ball that I should have just let drop and injured my wrist, I however played through the pain and well was less than effective in all facets of the game. I did however get to wear a fun wrist brace for the next two weeks!

Week #5 vs The Graduates
We had a severely depleted roster this week with 3 of our players travelling and one with the lame excuse of having to go to a study session for O-Chem. I mean seriously; O-Chem, that's got to be on the same page as High School PE Class. So any way they were down a player too so we played four on five. We were on fire the first game and actually won!!!!! Woohoo!! Then came the second game. We made it close but lost it in the end forcing our first ever game three, where picked up our second game win and our first every match win. Our teammates when texted were not convinced that this had actually happened and accused the other team of forfieting.

Week #6 vs Ballers
Another strong performance and timely serving helped us cruise to an easy first game win followed by a second game lapse in focus forcing another game three. We pulled it back together to win a well contested thrid game to extend our winning streak to two!

Week #7 vs Chuck Norris Goes Killing
We were excited about this match ever since we saw the team name, because we knew this was going to be the match that we got slaughtered; because as we all know Chuck Norris shows no mercy! By the shear numbers this would probably count as our most embarassing defeat ever because they had three players and we had seven for the match. Don't let the low numbers fool you this team had been observed warming up by doing a hitting line every week and they are no joke! Just for some context for those who know, their hits were very Mira-esque. Needless to say we got demolished both games to end our winning streak. Some of the positives were that I actually blocked one ball from their best hitter and got two digs off of him.

Volleyball ends in a 2-5 overall record and a total of 3 team injuries.
Our attention now turns to Flag Football and either Dodgeball or Kickball in the Fall!