Friday we were put in a 4 team pool, seeded 4th, playing at Rancho Sports Complex in Temecula.  Our opponents were SCVC 15's, Arroyo 15's and Golden West 15's.  We played well, demonstrating solid skill work, but our mental game was not at it's peak and we did not win a match and left the pool holding our seed.

Day two placed us at CSU Long Beach in the PM wave, playing in one of the hottest gyms ever in another 4 team pool!  We were seeded 3rd in our pool.  Our mental game matched our physical game on Saturday and we quickly knocked off the 1st seeded team, Pinnacle 15's.  Our next match was against 2nd seeded TCA 15's and we knocked them off too.  Our last match was against 4th seeded SMBC 15's and after a shaky 1st game loss, we came back and won the 2nd game and then blew them out the 3rd game, easily winning 15-3.  We took 1st in our pool and left CSU Long Beach feeling great!

Because of our awesome wins on Saturday, we had a bye for the first round of bracket play on Sunday at Rolling Hills Prep Building in Torrance.  Our first match was against Club Vegas and unfortunately, again, our mental game was not with us, and we lost the match in 2 games, ending our playing in Southern California.

Overall, play was solid, but we were lacking in confidence and the internal fire to win some matches!  Some of the girls showed outstanding play this weekend....Setter Taylor Noack was putting excellent sets up left and right and had the best tournament play ever!  Megan Bacchini's passing was off the charts amazing all weekend and it was her serving that clinched our 3rd game win against SMBC on Saturday.  Jayme MacQueen was unbeatable on defense, consistently moving her feet and putting up great balls for our setters.