HIK Weekday

Going into the match last night, none of us were sure how it would turn out. It'd been two weeks since the last time we played a match, including all last week where we were forced out of our gym because of Marienlyst's yearly boligmesse. A messe that I, and some of the others, were lucky enough to have spent three days setting up and taking down. A messe where the booths are all made out of pure iron walls. :)

In any case, we came into the match slightly unsure of what to expect, but fortunately it went about as well as it could have for us. I don't know what happened to Aalborg, could have been the long weekday drive, could have been that they didn't have a good match or it could have been that we played well. Probably a little bit of all. I think that the biggest differences in last night's match were in serve receive, where we passed consistently well and didn't really give anything away for free, and block. Especially in the second set where we ran off about 8 blocks in a row. We've been on the other side of that and it can be pretty demoralizing.

It looks to me like Aalborg is still rounding into form, they didn't start Jeppe although he did play a fair amount, and Flemming came in later in the match. Unfortunately for them they pretty much have to win this weekend to feel comfortable about making the playoffs, there are still so many things that can happen. I'd imagine they will be ready though, those SK - HIK matches are usually pretty intense.

I feel good about the way our team played last night. It was nice to get on a little roll, win the second set big and then still be able to focus our way through the last set. 3-0 could turn out to be real important coming down the home stretch here. Hopefully we can take that good feeling and that momentum and use it against Middelfart this Sunday, it would be great for our confidence to pick off a win against them here before the playoffs...

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