Spiked Punch

Well Week 5 turned out to be quite an interesting week. Apparenly there’s a schedule mix up, that has affected at least three division BB teams. As it turns out the “new” schedule had us with a bye in week 5, not playing the Wild Cats.

Well since the Wild Cats schedule was messed up too both teams decided to scrimmage on an available court. Spiked Punch was without team captain Eric who is out of town and Natale who perhaps was the only one with a correct schedule? But filling in was Mike and newcomer Bill. Mike got off to a pretty hot start, dominating play at the net.

However, the wind was angry on this night and the serving paid dearly for it. Steady serving Alison was the only consistant server for the Spiked Punch. Bumping and setting seems to be improving by all every week, but for the most part play was very loose as this was just a scrimmage with both teams not wanting to to tip their hands too much before next weeks contest (if the schedule doesn’t magically change again).

So until the schedule is officially corrected our next game is on July 10, at 6:00 PM against the Wild Cats. Hope to see everyone at practice Thursday night around 6:30 PM, have a happy 4th of July.

A photo gallery has been added to spikedpunchvolleyball.com. Hopefully we’ll get some more cool photos up there as the season progresses. It has a really cool admin section where we can have accounts and login and upload photos and it takes care of all the resizing, putting them in galleries, etc. So it’s pretty cool.

Just let me know if you want access to it, it just takes a second to set you up. Also let me know if something seems broken with it. I haven’t tested it in any Windows browsers yet and might have to make some further adjustments.

Just got done a super awesome practice in Mays Landing near where Eric lives. I dedicated my performance to my inspiration, Wen. It was four of us so first we just did some volleying in a circle, I think the record was 15 or 16 in a row. Not too shabby. I did hit 2 into the pool, so had to climb the fence twice. That was pretty cool.

Then it rained really hard and we headed to the rain shelter. We then played some exciting 2 on 2. Despite looking directly into the sun all game, Eric and I defeated Geoff and Allison in a most intense overtime game. I have never felt such pressure.

I peed outside. And we did some more practicing. I used to have a lump in my finger from when I broke/sprained it about 4 years ago. But I seem to of reinjured it while practicing and now the lump is gone! Hopefully it won’t come back again. Though I must confess it does hurt like hell. Fear not, it isn’t my mousing hand.