Juniors Anna Bartz and Elizabeth Egerer check in with the latest always-surprising and never dull edition of the VolleyBlog
The Panthers departed for Western Michigan last Monday night to prepare for their Tuesday game against the WMU Broncos.
After going down a road with about seven different hotels we arrived at the Clarion. It seemed like it wouldn’t be a bad hotel, but let’s just say it was definitely no Sheraton Inn. When we got to our rooms we found out that the Clarion’s pillows didn’t come close to the cloud-like pillows we had experienced so many times before at the Sheraton. It felt more like pillow cases stuffed full of cotton balls, basically something we’ve all made in our high school home economics classes. The beds from the Sheraton made you feel like you were sleeping on air, whereas the Clarion’s made you feel like you were sleeping on hard springs. It was hard not to shed a tear when you opened up the curtains and saw that the Holiday Inn was only a parking lot away.
We had practice at the gym the next afternoon. We wanted to get there early to get our gear on and get ready, but that campus was ginormous and finding the gym was like trying to find a four-leafed clover. We did finally find it and had about 10 minutes to get ready before practice. Then we made our way back to the hotel, packed up our stuff and got the heck out of there. It wasn’t long before we were preparing to play. We were trying a different lineup because of a couple of ankle injuries and a concussion caused by falling off a bed. We must have all had something wrong with our heads that night because the result wasn’t pretty and the Broncos beat us in three, leaving us running for the hills.
Then Friday and Saturday we had our first conference matches against Green Bay and then Loyola. We were lucky enough to be home again and have our own beds to sleep in. Plus the less contact we had with each other the better. Half the team finally figured out what the heck a Phoenix is - aka the magical bird from Harry Potter? They came thinking that they could ‘Wingardium Leviosa’ us, but that spell was the wrong one. We fought back with the ‘EXPECTO PATRONUM’ and took the Phoenix down in four.
The next day we were fed a Hogwarts type pre-game meal to get us witches ready to take down the Loyola Ramblers aka wolves aka moon-howlers. They weren’t a match for the Panthers and they crumbled in our teeth in our three (for the first win in three of the year).
We are preparing for our upcoming matches that everybody should be at this Friday at 7 and Saturday at 4.
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Special Thanks to Morgan Potter (aka Porgan Motter aka MoPo aka PP aka best libero ever) for helping us with this weeks blog!
-Anna and Biz aka Aniz aka Banna
