UPDATE: VI volleyballers lose to Anguilla in Bronze Medal match up
The two teams were battling for bronze medal in a closely contested match in which Anguilla emerged victorious with a score of 25-11; 28-30; 25-10; 25-12.
With no other games left, both teams left every ounce of energy on the court, with team Anguilla able to outdo their opponents to carve out a victory. The Virgin Islands were formidable adversaries as they made Anguilla nervous on several occasions. Cagey veteran Sabina Clement used her experience to help her team win set two. Dainyah Mason led the way with ten points (10).
Anguilla’s captain, Ludiane Leveret succinctly stated the team used targeted serves. This made a huge difference as players became more confident.
Captain Sabina Clement stated there was no significant difference in the passing of the two teams, but Anguilla were able to set better and consequently more focus needs to be placed on fundamentals.
VI’s coach, Stephen Payne felt there needs to be an improvement in fitness as well as the fundamentals. However, he was happy to see an improvement in competitiveness as the tournament progressed.
In the VI’s second match of the Tournament, following a straight sets defeat to Bermuda, they lost to St Maarten 25-19; 25-17; 23–25; 25 –10. Middle blocker Keishan Huggins was the lead scorer, contributing thirteen (13) points overall. Her team mates provided the necessary support to help seal St Maarten’s win.
See previous article published August 7, 2016
Flight delays & errors cost VI in volleyball game against Bermuda
Following an airline delay, the Virgin Islands (VI) Women’s Volleyball team suffered a defeat at the hands of Bermuda with a score line of 25-8; 25-17; 25–20; in Round One, Group A of the FIVB World Cup Qualifiers in St Maarten on Saturday August 6, 2016.
Bermuda actively exploited the weaker passing ability of the new look VI side in sets one and two, causing many unforced errors. Bermuda’s march to victory was led by outside hitter Khinda Pearmon- Watson (10) who scored eleven points and produced some solid defense.
The victor’s tactical style and the errors of their VI opponents handed them the match.
The VI did not give in though and fought valiantly to the end. As the sets progressed, they continually improved and the players showed a sense of urgency. The mother/daughter combination of Captain Sabina Clement and Dainyah Mason led the team’s offense with nine and six points respectively.
Their example helped to settle their team mates and boost morale.
Post-match analysis
Alison Settle – Smith (4) indicated Bermuda had good intensity and passed well. She was of the view the team needs to communicate more but the victory was a good start to the tournament. Coach Elisabeth Rae was pleased with the game plan execution, serving and communication. However, she would like to see a reduction in the number of errors made.
Captain Sabina Clement felt her team showed the lingering effects of a very late flight, tiredness and this impacted their psyche. Though the team started on a loose footing and somewhat jittery, the team corrected itself and improved during the course of the game. Coach Stephen Payne echoed similar sentiments to that of the team captain. He further stated there were too many unforced errors, 33. “If those were removed the result could have been different.”
Anguilla and host St Maarten make up the rest of the group, from which the top two teams advance to the second round of the World Cup Qualifiers.
The Full VI Squad: Shavique Barzey, Javlyn Frett, Tyalia Nibbs, Kernisha Bryan, Sabinah Clement, Kirsten Malone, Daijha Matthew, Dainyah Mason, Shoniqua Fahie and Keliene Smith
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44 Responses to “UPDATE: VI volleyballers lose to Anguilla in Bronze Medal match up”
The volleyball association is a disgrace to the sport, only a few players are chosen by they friendship not they skills, that's why we continue to perform poorly when we go away. I would like them to explain to the public how they go about selecting players and coaches for national teams, we have collage players who returned back and they don't even play in our league because of un fare treatment, I mean extremely good talent too, an overhaul is needed and needed quick, I'm out!
What friendship was used to select players when the majority of senior players who were chosen were not available to travel on the date of the competition?
Please come on here with sense and not talking things you dont know about!
to interesting,--- this team is an embarrassing selection, no had feelings ladies, but the majority of u guys are rookies who barely knows the game, had no call they, and u all know that, but its a free trip, so I don't blame u all one bit, yes as one blogger said, FIVB needs to step inn, coaches of national teams should be selected from within the regular league this is not the case again, players should be picked on they skills and stats, not how u look, this is real talk!
VIVB needs to do an investigation on the BVI Volleyball Association, they are over doing it now, to much close friend thing. U got esworth, para, barry, chichi who just set a record I heard with the vg ladies team, u are telling me none of them man qualifies as coach, look at the players there, ayo please tell the public how u all does do u all selecting, this kind of thing got too stop. VIVB please step inn!
The president daughter was coming out to train. Y'all like talking without knowing facts. Chichi is not a coach. Para is busy and elsworth basically give up on volleyball. Y'all like to talk. And vg played in the B Division. They would have gone st. Maarten and get licks too. They were good in the B Division. We will see how they do in the A Division.
Furthermore y'all talking bout they had the best server and setter in the league. B Division you mean. Because the best setter in the entire league was Celine that played with Raw Power. And the dark skin girl...Henrietta was the best server and hitter. All yall need to go play volleyball then come talk.
It looking like yall have a problem that the president's daughter on the team but yet still she is the only player who came back with an individual award for the best blocker in the competition. I guess friends and favors give her the stats for the award too!
Henrietta made the squad. She had other things to do that weekend.
Tasha made the squad. She had to work that weekend.
Kelaine from VG made the squad. She just came back from football and will be traveling with the U23 volleyball team this weekend so opted out of this competition.
The VG setter was invited to tryout but never came to practice and then had to be away this weekend.
Many other veteran players were invited to try out and did not come to practice.
The team that travelled was basically the U23 team with a few additions including the president daughter who was playing in university in Europe. She and everybody on that court came out to practice all the time. The senior players do not want to practice but expect to make a national team!
Who else was the association going to send? Get facts before ayo come here talking nonsense!
By the way, if this team had only older players, the story would be why there were no young people on the team. Just cannot please fools!!