phew! what a week this has been! tuesday was our match against whittier, which we lost horribly with a 5-13. so disappointing...we really could have done much better; it was just an off day. but hey what can ya do. laney and i won our first and third matches and the second, i played pretty awful. but we put up a good fight and lost by the least one can ever lose by...a 5-7 in tie break! so frustrating! we managed to step up our playing for our third set though. we were very into it. at one point somehow we managed to end up on opposite sides of the court at net. so, i went from being back on the add side and her at net on the duce to me being on the duce side and her on the add with both of us at net...whatever you've got to do to get a point. it was a good match.
yesterday's practice was made complete by laney completely eating it! seriously i don't remember the last time i've laughed that hard for that long...my stomach hurt SO bad. we were playing against brittany and alicia, laney goes to retun alicia's ball and the next thing we all know is her feet totally slide out from under her and she is laying face down on the court complete with a loud smack and then followed by an "ouch". we started for a moment and then as soon as we saw she was laughing all three of us lost it. alicia then run off the court to the bathroom so she wouldn't pee her pants and brittany and i just basically fell on the floor and couldn't breath for the next 10 mins. absolute funniest thing i've ever seen! when i asked her if she was okay she goes "yeah, it didn't hurt at all. all i remember is that i was hitting a ball and then my face was on the ground." HILARIOUS!
today we had a match against Brentwood, whom we lost most depressingly to. 4-14, i believe. we did know this was going to be tough going in to it though, but it still doesn't feel too good when you come out of all three matches with the same score of 0-6. especially our third set, which we were playing well during, but one girl just had the biggest chip on her shoulder. made me so mad! and it's a bummer we lost so badly, but i've decided to let it go and not hold onto it. after all there is nothing i can do and it's all in the past...next time we'll just have to win a few more games off 'em. no big deal. good news is we didn't let the loss dent our good spirits! when we were getting off the bus, our bus driver asked us "if this is what you girls are like after a loss what do you look like after a win?" ms. admiraal's response was "you just don't want to know".
the whole two hour bus ride back alicia, brittany, hannah and i spent singing everything from "i don't want to miss a thing" to "apologize" to the spice girls. we had fun and pretty much lost our voices haha. coach loved it even if she doesn't admit it! :)
well, even though we lost, we still managed to have a blast. and that is what it is all about. i mean, not that i don't want to win, cause i'm very competitive and i really do, but still is good to know that i wasn't holding onto those upset feelings. next time will be better.
i'm dead tired...hopefully i'll be able to sleep tonight.
goodnight!
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