DERBYYYYYYYYYYY

This past weekend we had a DERBY match, which is what they call a match against your rivals. It was a home match against Terracina, the city right around the mountain from us. They were pretty good the last time we played them, they took us to 5 sets, but we won. This weekend, they were also very good. Our team seemed to be having a rough time starting strong, and getting excited about the match. There was some butting of heads, and well why draw it out, we lost, in 4 sets. Now it will pretty much take a miracle for us to get 1st in the league, but you never know, as we have shown, any team can lose on any day. Looks like we will be going to playoffs.

Today we had the semi-final match for the Coppa di Lazio, we played a team in Rome. They were very good, and it was a very good but difficult match, we ended up winning in 5 very close sets! We probably should have beaten them in 3, but our team hit some rough areas in the match, but luckily we were able to pull out of it. I don't know why, but our coach kept telling us that they were a young team, which Lynnea and I didn't really understand why that was significant, doesn't matter how old the team is, if they have volleyball skills they have volleyball skills. It was just interesting to see the types of things they choose to focus on during "scouting reports."  Well, now we are on to the finals, and guess who we play, Terracina! So hopefully we will bring our A game this time! 

Well thats all for now, just a quick update. 

Italian word/phrase of the day: strano "strange"