Spiked Punch

I’ve called around and received some information on T-shirts. Here are the options:

1) Going with a local printer: It’s going to cost approx. 18 - $25 each for just ONE T-shirt no matter what direction we choose to go. Why? Unless you are going to get an iron on transfer and do it yourself, a professional screen printer must separate the 4 colors within the logo design, each color gets its own plate. Each plate costs approx. $18. So, upfront, before you select a t-shirt color, you’re going to pay $72 for the processing of the logo. Now, that’s only a one time fee. But, since we’re only producing a short run of shirts, it makes the overall price higher for everyone. the minimum cost for a t-shirt is $10.95. so, let’s say we each get two shirts at 10.95 each and split up the processing fee and then apply tax. that’s $18-20 for a color shirt with ONE image on the front. If you want to add an additional image, it will cost more for the processing and that means a pricier T.

2) Online printer - Quality drops a bit since they don’t really screen print and let the image soak into the fabric. Instead, they use a different process that applies a permanent image to the shirt. It’s not as bulky as an iron-on decal, however. I found a site that allows us to upload our logo and apply images to front and back for $23. You can even customize your personal shirt. If we agree to do this, everyone can access the store and add whatever they want to the shirt. You may have a different statement to add, want the logo on a different location, etc. one drawback…the t-shirt will be white if you want a double sided image. If you would prefer a color T-shirt, the image can only appear on one side.

Here’s what I came up with for examples:

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Personally, I like the idea of having individual team members order their own shirts. This way, nobody is forced into buying one if they don’t want to. Plus, you control the shirt design. I am willing to help walk you through the process and design your shirt.  I recommend using Cafepress.com.

Just for comparison purposes, the front/back on white is on a ringer T and will cost $23 total.  The color Ts, front image only will cost $23.99.

Send me an e-mail and let me know what option you prefer. I can send you the web site links and necessary files you will need for the logo.

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.

Week four was played under the lights against the heavy serving crew of Lew Mar. Game one found the Spikers struggling to return Lew Mar’s serves. The SP squad found themselves in a fairly deep hole and seemed out of position and a little out of sync during the middle parts where Lew Mar took their big lead. On a positive not, Spiked Punch did correctly guess which hand the referee held the pebble in to start game one.

Game two again had Lew Mar get off to a big early lead behind their tough serves. Spiked Punch was doing a good job of bumping the inital serves, but had difficulty finishing their plays. Too many finishes found their way into the wrong side of the net for the Punchers. Despite dropping game two to Lew Mar, Spiked Punch did stick together and decided to make a defensive adjustment in the back grow to start game three.

With the defensive adjustment and solid serving by Joe, Alisson, Rich and Eric; Spiked Punch got off to a decisive lead that they would not surrender. Solid overall play by team MVP’s Geoff and Natale contributed heavily in the game three victory. Much improved performance by Spiked Punch than the previous two games. Nice to close out on a good note, hopefully we can carry that over into next weeks game.

Joe is suffering from a right shoulder sprain. He is not expected to miss any games, estimated time of recovery is 4-6 weeks. If a Sponge Bob Square Pants BAND-AID is applied to the shoulder and he takes 2 Wild Cherry Luden’s then recovery time will be reduced to 15 minutes.

Week three’s opponent on Court One of Ventnor was the formidable JC Leap Agency. Spiked Punch was joined by special guest player Mike Maxwell. Mike signed a one week contract to play for Spiked Punch after being highly recommended by Alison. She thought Mike would contribute to our short handed team, she told us that he, “is tall and is a very good athlete”. It was a good signing for the team, and her words couldn’t of been more true.

Game one started with JC taking a nearly 10 point lead on the Punchers. It was beginning to look bleak, but behind the ace serving of Alison, Spiked Punch clawed it’s way back into the game and managed to pull off one of their toughest victories to date. Solid overall play from the trio of Natalie, Geoff, and Mike really enabled the team to pull of the victory.

The second game JC got off to a commanding lead, and never really looked back. They took the game rather handily, but the athletic plays made from Eric and the rest of the Spiked Punch crew towards the end of the game really carried over into the third and decisive game.

Game three can simply be highlighted by some big game serving. Looking into a swirling wind Joe, a member of Spiked Punch picked apart the JC defense to build a big early lead. Such a lead that JC was forced to use a timeout to regroup. However there would be no ability for the JC squad to regroup on this day. For MVP of the night Geoff brough his A-game serves which whizzed through and decimated the frightened JC defense.

It was a good feeling for the members of Spiked Punch to win two of three, with the practice a few nights before really paying off. Unforced errors still need to be worked on further, and the precision of our bumps and sets must still be improved upon for hopes of a title run. But big strides were made this week, congratulations to all.

The Spiked Punch Volleyball logo is finished. It’s quite different than what you’ve seen and is truly original. Thanks for all the input from the originals and during the development stage.

We’re going to get t-shirts. I’m going to get some pricing from a few vendors and will let you know the price per shirt. I would like to choose either blue or red as the shirt color. An alternative would be gray. We shouldn’t get white because of the filth factor.

-Geoff