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The day started out weak, with a late wake up call. We had to rush down
to breakfast for some well done hot chocolate. It goes down smooth. Some of
us slept right through breakfast and almost missed the vans to the gym. We
got to the gym and we had to wait around for what seemed like forever to eat
lunch. We saw the Nor Cal team bounce a couple against the Slovenian Team
and before we knew it, it was our turn to play. It was an uncalled for close
first game, but due to a few "good timeouts" we pulled out the victory. But
we decided the next game to show Nor Cal what real California volleyball is
like. We took it to them the next two games with some good kills by "Slick
Rick" (Eric Kay) to finish the second game. And with some good all around
play by the team, utter domination was achieved in the third (25-15).
After the Nor Cal match, Ammo (Ryan Ammerman) bought us all gelatos,
again. He also lost badly in a few well played card games by the team, but
that is beside the point.
We then traveled to the Ljudski Center (home of the local professional
volleyball and futbol teams) to play our new-found rivals, the United Arab
Emirates. We were really pumped to beat that team, because our two previous
attempts were futile. We started off strong but they managed to pull out a
victory out in the first game. We were full of adrenaline which carried us
through the games to follow. We played a really tough second game and went
into extra points. But yet again, we let another game from the UAE slip
through our fingers. But some sparked play by Paul Goodman in the third,
helped us to a victory in our first game against our closely matched rivals.
We now knew that we could beat that team so we took it to them in the fourth
game to take it to a deciding fifth game. We started off strong but our
endurance faded away in the closing points of that match to hand the UAE the
match. Afterwards however, we found out that the UAE head coach said that
our team has improved much and that we as a team are "fighters."
After the sour taste that game left in our mouths, we headed out for
dinner and then to a night out on the town. We got some more gelatos and
then drank our sorrows away...just kidding. We got some good French fries
from McDonalds and called it a night. |
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