This weekend sure was an exciting one for me and my volleyball team "Royal City Ravens". Our weekend started of at 11:00 on Friday morning ranked 56th out of 70 teams in Ontario, because of an unfortunate loss in an earlier tournament. Even with this low ranking, we went into provincials with a good attitude, and definate improvement in skills.
Our first 3 games went by without any issues, and as my Dad, or 'Coach Jason' would say, we put on a clinic. In one of the games, I managed to serve 21 serves in a row, out of the 25 points. So, with all of our success that day, everyone was pumped for Saturdays game...accept for the fact that it was at 8:00 in the morning, which meant a 5:00 wake up call. Not cool. So lets just say, the morning came and went and we were still pretty much sleeping on the court, which led us to lose a game against a weaker team.
The rest of Saturdays games were successful and we were told that on Sunday we would be moving onto the quarter finals. But, once again we had an 8:00 game, but this time, it was a MUST win, because it would either lead us to 1st place, or 9th. So my dad told everyone to eat a lot of breakfast and drink a large Tims hot chocolate, hoping to wake us up and raise our energy level. Unfortunatly, I think our team had to much energy because we ended up hitting the ball so hard that we lost 19 points to hitting the ball out of the court. Not good. In the end we lost that game which meant that we had no chance in winning gold, but we still fought hard in the game that followed, and ended up winning to a team we had lost to earlier.
To conclude, my first experience of provincials was a very good one, and I can't wait until nationals next month!
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