Women's Volleyball continued.

On Saturday night I saw these women do something which I thought was impossible. They were playing undefeated Serbia/Montenegro, the top team at this tournament with a perfect 6-0 record. And they showed it in the first two sets by totally dominating the smaller Japanese squad. The S/M spikes were just malicious; they hit so hard the ball was often not visible to the naked eye. I gave it up, to be honest, and told myself that Japan is just playing for pride at this point. Turns out they have a lot of pride!

Our girls really started clicking in the third set and the attack combinations, blocks, digs, were all firing perfectly! The turning point in the set (and ultimately, the game) was when Japan got two crucial blocks from the most unlikely player: tiny captain Takeshita!

Japan then basically cruised through the next 3 sets and took the match 3-2!! Unreal.