U19B Volleyball and Basketball

On Friday the 23^rd of September the U19 teams went to Chengelo to play basketball and volleyball.

On Friday a little while after we arrived we played our first volleyball game against Lechwe. We were very slow to start and lost the first set too quickly and despite a strong push in the second set we lost 2 sets to 0. Our second game was against Ndola Trust and although we think the refereeing was questionable we played our hardest and lost 2-1. [The boys did extremely well mentally in this game as they had to win three set points to win the second set as the referee kept changing his mind and reserving the point after having awarded the point to Amano! The third set also went down to the wire. SG] Our third game was against Nsansa and after our game against Ndola we were rather disheartened and lost the first set too easily. During the second set we really tried but we could not get the game back and we lost 2-0. Our results meant that we played the 7^th place game which was against Simba. We won the second set after losing the first but we slept in the last set and lost it. So we came out 8^th overall.

Philip attacking from deep

The next day we played our Basketball games. Our first game was against Simba and after good first half we were tied 4-4.  The second half was a close contest and Simba barely beat us 13-10. Our second game was Lechwe and we were out to win, but we let them get into our heads and I especially played horribly and we lost 28-6. We would have played the 5^th place game but our opponents Ndola trust forfeited the game so we won by default.

Amano countering with Ilunga

Overall the trip was not as bad as those score lines suggest, especially since we had a much smaller team than last year. We also probably played our best volleyball during the competition. I want to thank the team for trying their hardest despite the tough score lines. I also want to thank Mr Grove and Mr Jarrett for coaching and supporting us.