Exciting match day @Örebro

Gothia B ladies after winning both matches

Last Saturday 12/03, Gothia B ladies had another match day in Div 3 mellersta. This time we traveled to Örebro to face the local team and Vingåker as our other opponent. So our squad: Hannah, Linnea, Merima, Matilda, Eva, Maria and Stella (who recently joined us) headed up north early in the morning.

At arrival, the first match of the day was about to end with Vingåker beating Örebro 3:0. We faced the winner of this match first and saw an improved team with a new and quite tall setter on the other side. We started focused in this match but it took us some time to find our pace. It was a back and forth of good serves and a strong team capable of putting pressure with good spike on the opponent side. We managed to win the first set 25:21. We struggled with strong serves coming from the other side and got a bit shaking in the next set. Keeping up and staying leveled until 18:18, we lost a series of serve receives and could not recover from that, losing 19:25. The third set was equally exciting and both teams were giving their best. We lacked concentration a bit on all positions but thanks to good serves and nice attacks on the middle by player of the match Maria, we pulled the third set at the end in our favor - 25:22. In the forth set our opponents struggled more giving easy points away by individual errors. We managed to win the match 3:1 (25:21, 19:25, 25:22, 25:17).

The second game after a short lunch break was against the host team Örebro B. The break inbetween was not so good for us as we started this match with heavy feet and not finding into it at all. We fell behind early and although our opponents were a very young and rather inexperienced team, they had good fighting spirit. Some strong serves forced a lot of errors and they managed to pull 8 points ahead reaching 20:12. We caught up right after but they managed to secure the first set 25:18. This seemed to have been a wake up call and in the second match, we started to put in more effort. With strong serves by our team, especially player of the match Linnea and good presence on the net, we managed to win the second set decisively 25:15. The third and fourth set looked very similar and both were won clearly 25:17 and 25:11.

We headed home happy with the results although we showed some nerves and did not perform on our highest level. We did find a nice pizza place on the way for a change and the team enjoyed a Nutella pizza together as gratitude for the good results.

Next match is next Sunday even further away in Lindesberg.

Coach Thomas