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St Mary's Win 1st Surrey League Match
27th October 2006
St Mary’s University College Men’s Volleyball team started their first Surrey League campaign with a narrow 3-2 win against local neighbours Teddington.
The students started well in the first set leading the set by 10-7 with strong blocking by Toby Piblado dominating the set 25-18. The 2nd set the students started brightly again with Laurent Godfroy scoring 10 points on his serve and double blocking by Rob Snart and Toby Pitblado helped the team to control the set.
The third set proved a bit more difficult for the students as the opposition worked tirelessly on their defence and retrieved many powerful hits by Adam Jasnikowski and Rob Snart. Teddington sensed St Mary’s lack of killer instinct which demoralised the students and an error in the final stages on the set gave Teddington the 3rd set. (24-26)
Losing the 3rd was a blow to the young students and this showed in their poor concentration in the 4th set. England Juniors players Adam Jasnikowski and Andrzej Jasnikowski continued to drive St Mary’s inspiring the belief to win. Although the students lost the 4th set there were moments of very good volleyball edging the team on!
It was all to play for in the 5th and St Mary’s gave their all in a tremendous physical and mental effort. They forced themselves into the lead 6-3 with steady setting by Andrzej Jasnikowski and Adam Jasnikowski powering the ball through the block. Yordan Delgado continued his strong serving and served the only ace of match taking the set to 11-7. A vital time
for St Mary’s! The students continued to control the net with kill blocks by Toby Pitblado and Andrzej Jasnikowski and closed the set out 15-13.
St Mary’s Coach Lyes Sola commented that he was pleased for the team to win this game. Losing the 3rd and 4th and then winning the 5th showed good character. The team is young and improving so much
and will make mistakes. We now have to learn from this. The team will build confidence from this result and will work hard for a positive result in their next BUSA fixture.
TEAM LIST:Yordan Delgado, Laurent Godfroy, Adam Jasnikowski, Andrzej Jasnikowski; Rob Snart and Toby Pitblado.
ST MARY’S VC [3] v’s Teddington Carpet Hogs [2]
Set results: 25-18; 25-13; 24-26; 22-25; 15-13
Richmond organises an open volleyball session at
Whitton Sports & Fitness Centre on Sunday’s from 18.00 to 20.00, with beginners welcome to try out the sport.
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