❤️ BVA Ladies

Another great weekend for BVA ladies – continuing our good start to 2023. Meg, their coach was moving house this week, but left instructions for the team! They were also joined by Lana and Carmel – thank you 😊.

The first match was against Oxford Uni ladies – a return meeting after taking them to 2 close sets in our last match. The first set was very close for the first half. Oxford pulled away by a few points. However we caught up, helped by a good run of serves from Lana. We then fought well, until finally Oxford won 25-22. In the second set we led early and continued in the lead for much of the set. Our hitting down the line from Wednesday training was starting to take effect! We had some excellent points with a good combination of good defence and attack. Oxford caught up a few points before we pulled away again, with another close finish, this time 25-22 to us. In the third set, Oxford started well and were 6-1 ahead and changed ends at 8-5 ahead. BVA Ladies then played very well, fighting back to 9-8. A good run of serves and attacking play took us to 14-9, before closing out 15-10. MVP was awarded to Carmel.

The second match was against South Bucks University, for the first time this season. They were a stronger team and were more of a challenge on both service reception and strong hits. We fell behind in the first part of the set, but then managed to find spaces for our service and attacks. However Bucks upped their game and we lost the first set 12-25. We had learned from the first set and played well at the start of the 2^nd, with stronger serving and hitting and also good blocking  We pulled ahead to 15-6! The play then became more even, before Bucks pulled away again to win the second set 25-23. We will know more about them next time!! Katie was awarded MVP.

Well done to everyone who played, including those who played in a different position. It was a good fixture.

🖤 Men 1

Another great weekend for our Men’s A team with 2 straight wins against Spikeopaths Men’s 2 and Farnborough.

Against Spikeopaths 2:

Our Men’s team started strong against Spikeopaths Men’s 2 with great set of spiking, defence and blocking. The team missed few points with minor errors but it was great to see the team get back quickly rectifying those error in leading the matches against Spikeopaths 2.

The final scores against Spikeopaths were

1️⃣ 25-20 2️⃣ 25-13 MVP – Simon Collier

Against Farnborough Vipers:

Our Team continued their strong performance in their second match against Farnborough vipers. The first set started well in favour of Farnborough vipers but some strong serves and as the set progressed some amazing set by Jamie and kills by Simon, Matt, Chris and Ram helped the team stream lead the set and our Libero William’s contribution was commendable easing the combination of defence and attacks and winning the first set. The Second set continued with tough fight for every point from the start and our team continued their strategy similar to earlier matches and striked a clear win against Farnborough.

Second game also a straight 2-0 win vs Farnborough
1️⃣ 25-17 2️⃣ 25-23 MVP Ram

❤️ Men 3

A good performance by Men’s 3 against the top two teams in the league.

Wycombe – Aces Men 3 1️⃣ 25-9 2️⃣ 25-8
Oxford Uni – Aces Men 3 1️⃣ 25-15 2️⃣ 25-19