North Texax Challenge

[flyingMoose]

Set Three

Grace has three early kills and the Shocks take an 8-5 lead - which becomes 8-10 and brings on a Shocker TO.

[WuDrWu]

I’ve entered some kind of bizzaro world.

[flyingMoose]

The Shocks rally from 9-12 to take a 15-13 lead and SFA takes a TO.

[1972Shocker]

Shocks take a 15-13 lead on a Taflinger service ace and SFA takes a tiimeout. Everytime the Shocks have had a 2 or 3 point lead the Shocks have immediately surrendered that lead. Hopefully, they can at least trade points the rest of this set.

[flyingMoose]

20-17 becomes 20-19 and the Shockers take a TO.

Tabitha is fulfilling the pre-season prophecy in this match - 12-2-20 .500.

[flyingMoose]

Kills by Emma-Megan-Emma move the score to 23-19, and the Lady Jacks take a TO.

[flyingMoose]

Yikes!! Three in a row by SFA, a service error, SFA kill for 24-23.

A kill by Alex and the Shocks take Set Three, 25-23.

.283 v .398
Tabitha as above
Grace 5-1-6 .667.

[1972Shocker]

Tabitha is fulfilling the pre-season prophecy in this match - 12-2-20 .500.

That she is and that is good to see. Unfortunatley, Megan and Regan struggling a bit today.

[flyingMoose]

Set Four

Small leads, most of them held by SFA.

When the lead is at four and 9-13, Shocks take a TO.

[flyingMoose]

The Shockers never get closer than two, the lead becomes 13-18, and the Shocks take their last TO.

[flyingMoose]

The LS operator is apparently not back from their bathroom break.

[flyingMoose]

18-24 moves to 20-24 and SFA takes a TO.

The Shocks continue their run, now five, and SFA take another TO at 23-24.

[flyingMoose]

The Ladyjacks take the match, winning Set Four, 26-24.

The Shocks have a great comeback with a six-point run, but the Ladyjacks hang on.

Still no current LiveStats.

[WuShock16]

Is your score wrong? Because the VB Twitter page just said tied at 25.

[1972Shocker]

The next tweet shows the 24-26 score for Set 4.

[1972Shocker]

Ouch. Not to take anything away from SFA as they were the better team this morning and deserved to win and will no doubt have a gaudy record this year but this one might sting a bit at selection Sunday time. It certainly, leaves very little room for error in AAC play. I suppose the Shocks could remedy this if they can get by North Texas tonight and then pul the upset of Cal Poly tomorrow.

[flyingMoose]

Post-match comments

.252 v .312

Played a team that is better than their reputation and perhaps we are not.

If we individually can get just a little better, the team can get a lot better. But it goes the other way, too.

Tabitha did well; the middles did not.

Our serve-receive is not good enough for a lot of quick quicks. Will have to learn to run some slower stuff for the middles.

As expected, the SFA service was really tough.

This team will have to learn to fight a lot. The same kind of fight that was shown against Creighton will to be present against the SFAs on the schedule.