Last night the Nome Nanooks volleyball team defeated the Ninilchik Wolverines 3 games to 2. These contests going to 5 games are killing me. Ninilchik is a small school but they are on the road system. They had to leave three girls behind with the flu and those were supposedly some of their top players. We're spotting too many points with bad serves, if you ask me. One game had at least nine of our serves go into the net. You just can't spot another team that many points and get away with it. The girls played tough. We play them twice more tomorrow. Once at 1:30 and again at 5:00. The seniors will be tired because we were out last night until after 10:00 with both the JV and Varsity matches going to five games and they have the SAT this morning. Our JV and Junior High games were against Bethel JV and Junior High. We had them flown in on the backhaul on our charter flight for the wrestlers going to Bethel. Apparently on these charters, it is the same cost if the plane is full or empty. They try to fill it up then and split the flight cost with both schools. This is an immense savings because the JV and Junior High are actually getting competitive games against other schools rather than just playing each other. Last year, the JV played only one game and the junior high didn't play at all. This will only help the girls in coming years playing real competition. Our athletic director has already worked out a deal for us to go to Ninilchik next year to play in their tournament. It will take some fundraising but we can do it. I will need to take on concessions at some basketball games. All in all, it was a great night, especially with a win. I just have to learn how to help us not kill ourselves with our own mistakes.