MS Girls End of season ISTAA Volleyball Tournament

Thursday 22^nd November 26, 2012

The MS girls’ volleyball team headed to Tokyo International School for the end of season tournament against TIS and KIST.  BST played KIST first. .) Due to some great serving from BST, KIST were unable to return the ball and score points leading BST to win 3 sets to 0, (25-18, 25-19, 25-14.)

BST then played TIS and after such a great win against KIST they were feeling positive.  Again, BST were able to maintain their winning streak, beating TIS 3 sets to 0 (25-17, 25-15, 25-5.) BST had full control by the last set and they were pleased to be able to take the trophy away.  Yurika Yamada, the captain of the middle school team this season collected the trophy and the girls were able to celebrate their win after a very busy, exhausting season.  Well done to both the A and B team this year.

Miss Swain

 

 

 

 

Saturday 13^th October, 2012

MS Girls Volleyball match

BST V ISSH

A team BST 2-1 ISSH
B team BST 0-2 ISSH

The B team were up first against the ISSH Symbas.  The B team worked well but were unable to consistently serve over the net meaning a lot of points were given away allowing the Symbas to win, 11-25.  They went into the second set more positive and Amy Carson, the team captain, gave great encouragement from on court.  BST worked really hard in the second set and their returning of the ball and moving around on court really improved. They managed to keep the score even until half way through the game.  Then once they had lost a few points, their heads dropped and they finished the second set 18-25 to ISSH.

The A team started off really well and gained the lead due to some great serving from Yurika Yamada and working together very defensively to maintain procession.  BST remained on top of the first set winning 25-18.  ISSH came back into the second set with more fight. This meant, despite some excellent serving from BST, ISSH won the second set 25-21. A very close and tense set followed with neither team gaining the upper hand. However, with some excellent game play BST won the third set 15-13, the first A team game win of the season.

Tthe Kanto Plains end of season tournament will be the next match on Saturday November 3^rd at BST.

 

MS Volleyball – House Tournament – Tues 9^th Oct 2012

The volleyball house tournament continued last Tuesday with the Middle School participating.  Charlotte Griaud in Year 11 organised both the girls and boys tournament as part of her GCSE PE assessment.  She organsied and led the session outstandingly.

The girls’ games started with Amaterasu vs Bishamon. Amaterasu only had 4 players but managed to convincingly beat Bishamon after only two sets.  The next match was a fierce battle between Amaterasu and Tsykiyomi. As both teams were comprised completely of MS volleyball players.  It was a great game enhanced by the fact that  Amaterasu still only had 4 players meaning they had to work extremely hard  beating Tskyiyomi in the second. Unfortunately Tskyiyomi mananged to beat them in the third making it a very close game.  In the final game Tskyiyomi beat Bishamon due to some outstanding serving from Yurika Yamada, who scored 18 points in a row.  Tskyiyomi were the winners, Amaterasu second and Bishamon placed third. Bishamon did very well seeing despite not having any players from the A MS team.

The boys’ volleyball was dominated by Amaterasu, they won both all their sets and both games.  Amaterasu had some strong Year 9 players who served and returned the ball very well.   Tsykiyomi and Bishamon played the last but close game, Bishamon managed to take the lead and win two sets to nill.  In the end Amaterasu were the winners of the boys’ middle school house volleyball tournament.

Amaterasu have won both the boys and girls High school games and now adding to that the boys middle school volleyball so they already have a lead in the points this term, let’s see what happens during sports day.

More photos on Flickr here

 

Saturday 6^th October, 2012

MS Girls Volleyball match

BST V NIS

A team BST 1-2 NIS
B team BST 0-2 NIS

The B team’s match against NIS was a first for both Antonia Clarke and Kiuko Notoyo. Despite Amy Carson’s encouragement from on court, BST were unable to work together as a team. This, combined with strong serves from NIS, meant they lost both sets. Regardless of this it was a great experience for the team and a good first match for the new players.

The A team followed with a strong first set, narrowly losing with a score of 23-25 to NIS. The score remained close throughout the match, creating an intense and exciting game. In the second set however, BST were able to take a convincing lead over NIS due to some amazing serves from Mia Rothrock and Yurika Yamada scoring 12 points in a row. The second set finished 25-19 to BST.  The third set was tense as NIS began to get stronger and the BST team was starting to get tired, losing focus.  The score was back to being even point for point, at 12-12, 3 serves from Yurika gave us a two point lead, but NIS won back the serve and scored making the score 15-14 to BST.  BST needed to win by two clear points. Unfortunately they were unable to hold the serve and finally lost 15-17 to NIS.  A disappointing result, as the team had worked so hard together.

This week, we had the girls and boys High School house volleyball between the three houses, Amaterasu, Bishamon and Tsukiyomi organized by Aakriti as part of her GCSE PE assessment.

 

High School Girls.

Amaterasu seemed to be the firm favorites for the girls to clinch the first win of the evening as they squared up against Bishamon but solid serving in the 3^rd set from Maria gave the underdogs a 2-1 victory over Amaterasu. Straight after the 2-1 victory, Bishamon were on court again to play Tsukiyomi who only had 4 players in their team! Despite this Emily, Rayna, Areej and Iona made sure Bishamon were left stunned for underestimating their opponent as they came out on top with a hard labored 2-1 victory. Upon seeing what happened to Bishamon, Amaterasu went into the 3^rd game of the evening against Tsukiyomi focused and made no mistake of underestimating their opponents, as a result they cruised to a 2-0 victory over their Tsukiyomi.

The results from the 3 games meant that there was a tie between Amaterasu and Bishamon and as a result, the two houses would have to square up against each other once more to decide the overall winner. The two houses played a 1 set game up to 8 points and it was Amaterasu this time that came out on top after they held their nerves to win 8-4. So overall after the four action packed games played on the evening, Amaterasu came 1^st, Bishamon 2^nd and Tsukiyomi 3^rd.

 

High School Boys

The scene was set for the battle of the big hitters….. On a balmy Tuesday evening the three houses drew their lots. Amaterasu to play Bishamon, Bishamon then to play Tsukiyomi and finally Amaterasu to play the Tsukitomi. Vibrant colours of green, orange and purple punctuated the tiles as bodies thrown in sacrifice dove to stop the ball hitting the floor. All three matches were a joy to behold.

In the first match Bishamon with the power and precision of Vitor Bronzatto took on the guile and athleticism of Josh Tateno and his Amaterasu team. Green won the first, orange won the second and in the final set the Orange pipped the Green Machine. Tsukiyomi saw themselves as the underdogs and in the first set it seemed that the Purple David’s would indeed slay the Green Goliaths. Order however was restored and Bishamon won the second and third sets comfortably. The stage was set for the final match as a Tsukiyomi win would mean a three way tie. Amaterasu were just too strong and ran out comfortable 2-0 winners. The final standing Amaterasu 1st, Bishamon 2nd and Tsukiyomi third. Great volleyball, healthy competition; overall a great evening!!!

 

 

 

MS Girls Volleyball Tuesday 2nd October 2012

A team BST 2-0 Seisen (21-25/13-25)
B team BST 2-0 Seisen (4-25/14/25)

The B team struggled to get into the first set as they were unable to get it together as a team unfortunately but they learnt a lot. They were able to work better in the second set and start to attack Seisen but were unable to retain their serve so unable to gain points.

The A team played really well with some great serving with serving from Lisa Taniguchi and BST were leading 11-7 then Seisen stepped up their game and pulled back a few points finishing the set 25-21 to Seisen. The girls went into the second set really positive and again the set was even until half way through and then BST were unable to hold off the Seisen powerful returns, and defensive play.

All girls worked hard and together it was tough environment for them to be at Seisen home ground.

Well done all.
Miss Swain

Ms girls Volleyball Saturday 29th September

A team – BST 0- 2 ASIJ (14-25/14-25)
B team – BST 2-0 ASIJ (25-10/25-19)

The B team played first and had an excellent game, the first game for Camilla Mattiolli. Aayaka Teshirogi the B team captain got the game off to a great start with 5 straight serves meaning we were leading 6-0 before ASIJ got to serve. We remained on top of the game through the first set finishing 25-10. We went into the second set in high spirits, although we were 10-12 down half way through but with some great serving and defensive play we went into the lead 21-18 and then finished the game with a 6 point lead of 25-19, a great game by all players.

The A team were then ready to play ASIJ A team, they started off strong and were working really well together as a team with some great attacking plays but ASIJ managed to get through with their powerful serving and short balls over the net. We lost the first set but went into the second very positive, but with a few injuries to Mia Ryan and Yurika Yamada we found it difficult in the second set and although they worked hard we lost the second set. The girl put together a awesome performance and played really well as a team.

Miss Swain

MS Volleyball – Saturday 22nd September

YIS

A team – BST 0 -2 YIS (12-25/21-25)

B team – BST 0 – 2 YIS  (8-25/10-25)

 

AOBA

A Team – BST 1-2 AOBA (16-25/25-17/13-15)

B Team – BST 0 -2 AOBA (10-25/19-25)

 

Four games in one morning.  It was the first game for some of the B team players, Lauren Chambers, and Amy Carson and the first time that all the B team players had played together against another school.  The score doesn’t reflect the effort, they put in, it wasn’t until the second set that they started to gain some confidence and settle into the game. The A team were then taken by surprise during the first set of their game and were unable to make a comeback in the second set, although Yurika Yamadas serving was outstanding she bought the team back from 11-18 down to 16-18 with 5 great serves in a row, they were unable to win the last few points of the second set and YIS left winning both games.

 

The B team were worked hard against AOBA B team and really started to develop their skills, unfortunately there serving let them down a little, but they worked extremely hard and learnt a lot from the game.  The girls started communicating and moving around the court really well.  The A team put up a tremendous performance against ABOA A team, some outstanding serving from Mia Ryan and  Lisa Taniguchi serving 5 successful balls in a row.  BST lost the first set although it was pretty even for the first half of the set and then BST lost focus and lost the first set 16-25.  BST entered the second set a different team with confidence and fire, it was even points throughout the game with excellent scoring and team play they won the second set 25-17.  In the final set BST dominated AOBA with a defensive play and setting up strong attacking plays.  Unfortunately BST didn’t manage to hold their lead in the last few points and lost 13-15, but what a nail biting performance.

 

Four great games by 13 great players well done girls you worked extremely hard.

 

Miss Swain

 

 

BST girls warming up

 

 

Middle school Girls Volleyball
Saturday 15^th September 17, 2012

BST V CAJ

A team lost 2-0

B team won 2-0

The B team played first and with BSTs two new players to the court, Bella Sharp year 7 and Shuko Fukama year 8.  They both played extremely well for their first game ever, Bella made 4 successful serves in a row.  The BST team worked well together as a new team and won the first set.  They then went into the second set very strong and confident once again some great serving from Lisa Taniguchi, who served 5 balls in a row in both the first and second set.   The whole team work together to win the second set 25-14.

The A team worked really hard together and the first set was even points most the way through the game, but the first set ended 20 -25 to CAJ.  The BST girls knew they could give CAJ A team a good game and continued to work hard throughout the second set but at BST got tired CAJ remained strong.  Every time BST were down by a few points they managed to bring the score back to even and then CAJ would manage to get ahead again.  The last few points were very tense and it was all down the good clear serving but unfortunately BST lost the second set 22-25. Overall, an outstanding performance by all players.

Middle school Girls Volleyball
Thursday 13^th September 2012

BST V St Maurs

A team lost 2-0

B team won 2-0

The first game of the session and after only a few practice sessions the girls demonstrated their skill and got off to a great start.  BST only had one team so the same girls represented BST in both A and B games which was tough.  Having not played together as a team since last year the girls go straight into the St Maurs B team game, winning the first set 25-22, with some great serving from Lisa Taniguchi and Yurika Yamada who served three amazing serves at the end of the set.  Into the next set BST held their own and won 25-19, with some outstanding serving from Mia Ryan.

After a short rest BST played against St Maurs A team, who had been patiently waiting to play and watching the B team play eyeing up their opposition.  In the first set BST doing were doing extremely well and giving St Maurs a good game with each team continuously attacking each other.  Despite some outstanding serving from Mia Ryan and Yurika Yamada BST lost the first set 18-25.  The girls continued to work hard and as team they also lost the second set 18-25.  It was still an outstanding performance by the 8 girls, well done.