Volleyball Blog

You could call it volleyball, or vikingvolleyball, perhaps Big Bend Lady Vikings Volleyball, and yes a good experience. I was fortunate enough in the middle of the week,hump day, otherwise known as Wednesday, to go to Peter D. DeVries Acivity Center, or just BBCC Viking Gym, for the first Home Game of the lady viks. As Hank Willams jr. sings in the Monday nite Football theme," Are you ready for some Volleyball!!!!!!!!!"
Sept.10,Wednesday,Lady Viks,first Home League contest.As I walked in the gym,it brought me back, to the time I was coaching.The two teams warming up..... It doesn't matter what sport, you warm up the same motions as game time. The two teams were basically doing the same warm up. What I thought was cool,..when the two head coaches got on thier side of the net doing quick serves, like fast balls with a open hand with great velocity. Ten or more a minute, the Lady Vik, greeting those fast balls would lierally slide on the floor retrieving them.
Looking around the stands I saw familar faces, faculty and otherwise. A great sound system revirbrated througout, the lighting and sound crew, all of those Dude-o's wearing event staff t-shirts were used as needed.
The game was action packed, fast moving between Big Bend Community College Vikings,and Treasure Valley Community College Of Oregon. From here on -I will refer to Big Bend Vikings, to the abreviated form, - ( B.B.), the Treasure Valley Chukers to-( T.V.) Gazing at our line up of the lady viks, I noticed six of the ten of our student athelets, are from North Central Washington, and the other four, Idaho, and Montana. Also looking at the two Teams ther was no hieght advatage, both teams with one each who was 5-11 ours bieng Brandi Kisler from Warden.
Viking Head Coach : Michael De Hoog, who was a Area Athelete, very knowlegeable, likeable,intense, motavator type of coach, his Assistant Coaches Cari Galbreath, Niki Baker are agood crew also. And yes you can see a photo of our team, and schedule, Yep- right here.
After the introductions, and high fives, the teams huddle up for last instructions. then the officals come out on the court.......... Game Time....... Ready Go.......... (Game 1-)........ TV scores first, then at the BB time out, the score was (13-9) TV. The Chukurs were consistentily 5 to 6 points ahead, until the next time out (20-15) TV. Then BB answered back (24-22) TV game point....... TV goes on to win the first game.
.........(Game 2)........ Ready Go.......... (1-0) TV, then (3-3 tie), then the bottom droped out, we were consistantly behind by 7-8 points. Then time out TV........(21-17) TV, it got as close as (24-20) TV wins (Game 2) But Lady Viks still made a run at them.
.......(Game-3)...........Ready Go............ (1-0) Viks -Yea! then (4-3) TV, until a (10-10) tie .... Jhenesis Garza, from Moses Lake made great plays for BB............(23-23) tie late in the game (24-24) tie game point TV wins.
        I really enjoyed watching this contest, of all these student atheletes, giving all they got, because in Volleyball, you can't make mistake,then pout, or get mad at yourself, because it, will affect your game, you gots to shake it off, because more than likely, the ball is coming back to you harder than it did before, and you are there for the team all those Gals standing next to youse........ so get your Humanoid form, to the next game, Hello!!!! Look in just about every building, schedules are posted everywhere, so Post-Up at the next game......................May these Lady Viks, keep pluging playin the exciting Volleyball I just saw.