Bermuda blanks Saba in straight sets

ST. JOHN’s, Antigua and Barbuda, August 23, 2019 - Bermuda continued the straight sets margins of victories,  by blanking Saba 3-0 ( 25-7, 25-6,  25-8), to register their second win in the Eastern Caribbean Volleyball Association (ECVA) Under-20 Female Volleyball Tournament, here at the YMCA Sporting Complex.

While it was Bermuda’s second win, it was third loss on the trot.  Bermuda finished the preliminary round with a 1:2 win/loss ratio, while Saba ended winless.

Nathalie Gazzard and Morgan Kempe, both had 10 points to their names, to be joint leading scorers for Bermuda. On the other side of the court, the best scorer for Saba was Zain Vorswijk with 2 points.

Bermuda won on Spikes 20-3 and Serves 21-2.  Saba helped Bermuda’s cause by committing 33 errors, whereas Bermuda recorded 16.

Bermuda’s Head Coach- Gary LeBlanc, whilst accepting his team’s second victory as a plus to their moral, acknowledged that the key is the semi-finals.

“Now the real Volleyball starts… All the teams have figured each other out, and hopefully if we play the game we came to play, we will come out with a win in the semi –finals”, he proffered.

Looking back at his team’s three matches, LeBlanc reasoned, “Overall, we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into, so in the first match, we learned something about ourselves; the second match we tried to fix what we learned in the first match, then we tried to execute and fine tune in the third match”.

Fast forwarding to Bermuda’s next match, team captain -Ashley Horseman stated, “We just have to continue to play the game we know how to play and minimise our errors and really put forth our best in the semi-final”.

And, having lost all three matches, Saba’s Vice – Captain- Vernisha Robinson assessed their participation as a “learning experience”.

“ We are satisfied with what we have done so far, even though we think we could have done better at times”, Robinson mentioned 

Match six, the final of the preliminary round, features Antigua and Barbuda versus St Lucia.