Friday, March 20, 2009

Kurzy comes to Villingen and another victory

This weekend was critical for us as we needed to rebound after our loss to Mannheim. It was also nice to be back at home and playing in front of 1000+ fans again! But the best part of the weekend was having Steph Kurz come to visit!! Kurz was lucky enough to have the whole weekend off from games so she decided to make the trek from East Germany to the beautiful south! I was so excited that she was coming because I hadn’t seen her in person since the summer!

She arrived Saturday afternoon just in time for our game! After I gave her a quick tour of the town so she could get oriented it was time to head off to the game! We were playing Heidelberg this week, a team whom we had won against twice this year and it was essential that we got another victory this weekend.

Kurz is here!!

And get a victory is exactly what we did. It was a very well played match by us......overall we passed well and it made attacking very easy. I can’t count the number of times that our attackers had one block because we actually passed well for over ¾ of the match. We won the first set easily 25-13 with very few errors on our side. The set was over before I could blink it went so fast. The second set was much the same with the final score being 25-11. This set I finally got into it offensively as Ramona was able to distribute the ball around as we continued to pass well! It was nice to get a few kills and hit the crap out of the ball. The third game didn’t start as well as our passing broke down a little bit and we were allowing them to stay with us early. But eventually we picked it up and dug all the tips and junk they were throwing at us. We finished up the third set strongly and blew them away again 25-15. It was a very fast match lasting only 68 minutes and we were more than happy to get the victory.

But mostly I was happy to have Kurzy there! It is so weird to me that we can be in Germany and visit each other. Sometimes I still forget that I live in Germany and it is so great when I get to see someone from home. We had a very relaxing weekend catching up and planning my visit to Chemnitz in April. I gave her the token tour of the town and then we went for a walk up to McDonald’s for lunch since it was such a beautiful day out. Unfortunately she had to leave on Monday morning because she had practice and it takes about 5 hours for her to get home. I wish she could have stayed longer but I am happy that I will get see her again soon!!

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