Volleyball record

Speaking of records and stats, one of the volleyball ladies who also works on the paper came tome and asked about our specific record. That was hard to answer the way that it is handled here.

We defeated Kotzebue for two matches for our season opener. Remember those come-from-behind barn burners? This was our division and counts towards our record.

In Bethel, we played a tournament that didn’t count at all on our official record. It looks good to me, so I like to count it. In the seeding matches, we beat Akiachak in two straight games (one match win, if you ask me). We defeated Aniak in two straight games for another match win. We defeated Kalskag in two straight games for another match win. We defeated Chevak in two straight games for another match win. We lost to Bethel in a best of three (we won the first game) and the only reason it went to three games is that we were both undefeated in the seeding matches and needed the tiebreaker to place in the tournament (that’s the one where we lost the tiebreaker 15-0—ouch!). We defeated Chevak again in a best of five in the first round of the tournament for another match win. We lost to Kalskag in a best of five in the second round of the tournament. So if you ask me, we went 5-2 for the weekend.

The next weekend we lost two matches to Barrow.

The next weekend was the Mixed 6 tournament that really isn’t even fair to count with the higher net and boys playing on the other side, but we went 1-2, beating Shishmaref.

The next weekend we beat Ninilchik in three matches.

Last weekend was our Alumni exhibition and we won that.

So the only matches that really have counted so far have been Kotzebue and Barrow. We are officially 2-2. I feel we are 12-6. That’s if you count every match we have played.

We have Dillingham coming up this weekend in a four-way competition. They are flying in other schools. We get to play three matches against three different teams. None of them are in our division, even though Kotzebue will be in Dillingham this weekend too. We don’t play them though.

Regionals are held in Barrow the first weekend of December. There we will only play Barrow and Kotzebue. With Alaskan rules and regulations, this year our division gets two berths to State, even though there are only three teams in our division. I feel we are in good shape to go.