With the season more than half way done, our Premier teams were still going strong for the 1st weekend in March despite the arrival of aNor'easter. Nine teams traveled to Boston while eight teams competed in single days in the region.
FIRST IN THE REGION....
Premier Panthers participated this weekend in MDJRS 13 Club. Going 4-2 pool play, they finished 2nd in their pool to advance to the gold bracket. They met our Premier Express team in the semi finals and defeated them in 2 to advance the championship final. In the final, they met WLVBC, who they lost to in pool play, they pulled together as a team and defeated them in two - 25-21, 25-19 - to take home the gold!
PREMIER PRIDE - Advanced to the quarterfinal at No Panic 15/16 Sweet Sixteen
PREMIER ECLIPSE - Lost in Silver Semis at Mason Dixon 16 Invitational
PREMIER NOTORIOUS DIG - Lost in the Bronze Bracket at Baltimore Elite 13/14 Invitational
AND NOW IN BOSTON!!!
Nine teams - EDGE 18, EDGE 17, EDGE 16, Phoenix, Fusion, EDGE 15, Lightning, Pearl and EDGE 14 - hit the road on Thursday and made their way to the city of Boston to compete in the Mizuno Boston Volleyball Festival. Like the weather was a bit frightening on Friday with high tide spilling water into the streets from Harbor, Premier teams left an impressive mark on all of the teams. Many of our teams played up an age group and their results were great!!
Playing up in the extremely talent division of 18 USA Qualifier Division, Premier EDGE 17 performed right there with all of the competition. Winning their pool on day 1 and taking 2nd on day 2, they advanced to the 16 team gold bracket. Unfortunately they lost in the 1st round, but they fought hard and finished 9th overall (out of 52 teams)!
Finishing 4-2 in match play for the first days, Premier EDGE 15 advance to the 16 team gold bracket on Sunday. They won an exciting three setter quarterfinal vs Smash 16s to advance to Gold Semi Final. In a hard tough battle with CT Juniors, they lost in 3 sets to finish 3rd overall (out of 32) in 16 Open division!
Playing up in 17 USA division, EDGE 16 went undefeated on both Friday and Saturday. On Sunday, they lost a tight three set to finish 3rd (out of 24) overall in 17 USA division!
Premier EDGE 18, playing in 18 American Qualifier Division, finished 2nd in the pool on Friday and they fought hard on Saturday to advance to the Silver Bracket. Unfortunately, they lost their first match but overall, the girls played well and finished 27th!
Playing with only 7 players and up to age bracket in 18 American Qualifier division, they finished with a record of 4-2 for play on Friday and Saturday to advance to the Silver Bracket on Sunday. They won their semi final match and lost in the final to finish 2nd in the Silver Bracket and 18th overall of out of 52 teams!
Playing up in 15 open, Premier EDGE 14 faced some tough competition and finished 2-4 on the first two days and advanced to the bronze bracket. On the last day, they won both of their matches to win the bronze bracket (finishing 13th out of 27 teams)!
Premier Fusion wins their pools on both Friday and Saturday with a record 5-1 and they advanced to the Gold Bracket in 16 USA. On Sunday, they won their 1st match of the play to advance and lost in quarterfinals of the gold bracket. They finished 5th out of 60 teams!
Finishing 3-2 in pool play, Premier Lightning advanced to the Gold Bracket in 15 USA on Sunday. They lost in the first round and their consolidation match to finish 11th out of 42 teams!
Premier Pearl fought their adversity this weekend in 15 USA Division. Missing a player due to an injury and then having a player stuck in the Nor'easter on Friday, they battled on it.
Tag(s): Home Purple (Pink Select 12) Panthers (Pink Select 13) EDGE 14 EDGE 15 Lightning (Pink Select 15) EDGE 16 Fusion (Pink Select 16) EDGE 17 EDGE 18 Pursuit (Black Select 12) Notorious D.I.G (Black Select Express (Black Select 13) Eclipse (Black Select 15) Pride (Black Select 16) Pearl (Pink Select 15) Phoenix (Pink Select 16) Crush (White Select 13)