Tournament Results from Feb. 18-19th

Our 14's team saw their first tournament action this last weekend in Columbus in the President's Cup tournament and Coach Saylor's 16's team saw their second day of action!

Below are updates from Coach Kevin and Coach Saylor on how their tournaments went!  

Coach Kevin:

Our 14's team competed in the 2-day President's Cup tournament at the Columbus Convention Center.  The tournament draws some of the top teams not only in our region, but from as far away as Canada.  The format makes for 2 long days:  they started at noon on Saturday and did not finish until 11pm.  Then they returned on Sunday at 12:30 and did not leave until after 9:30pm.  The team struggled early on losing their first 3 matches, 2 of them in 3 sets.  They fought back and won their next 2 in pool play to win their way into the Silver bracket.  They then ran off 3 straight in tournament play (a 5 match win streak) to end up as Silver bracket Champions!  Their coaches were all proud of the determination the team showed to fight back after a tough start on Saturday.  Winning the Silver Championship was a total team effort as all team members made key contributions at some point during the weekend.  9th place in a 24-team tournament is a great result, especially after the tough start.  Way to go Bombers!!!

Coach Saylor:

The girls had a great day!  We finished 3rd overall in the Gold bracket.  The girls improved greatly from the week prior.  All games were very close but with teamwork and positive attitudes the girls pulled out all victories except for 2.  The first game of pool play was against Positively Charged and the girls defeated them in to sets (26-24, 25-23).  The second pool play game was against Blue Crush from Kentucky.  We were defeated in a tough battle (21-25, 19-25).  The final game of pool play was against Borderline's 15A team and we came out on top of that match (25-22, 25-20).  This put us in the the Gold bracket and matched us against a Cincy East team in the first round of tournament play.  We won with a hard fight (25-18, 24-26, 15-10), then faced a second Cincy East team for the second round.  There we fell just short in a hard fought battle losing both sets 20-25.  Clara Butler played strong in the back row and JoAnna McNutt was strong at the net all day!  All of the girls had a fantastic day....we are looking forward to our next tournament on March 11th in Russia!  Way to go Team Cyclones!



Congratulations to both of our teams for a great weekend!!

This coming weekend our 13's, 15's AND 18's teams will hit the court for the first time.  The 13's team will be playing at Miami University on Saturday, the 15's team will be at Miami University on Sunday, and the 18's team will be playing in Urbana on Sunday.  

  Good luck to all of our teams this weekend!!!!

 

    
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