Speaker 1: Hi. I'm Tiffany Oshinsky and I'm Cat Bill and this
Speaker 1: is serving pancakes with League one Volleyball, the inaugural Love season.
Speaker 1: It is finally here. Each episode will be going over
Speaker 1: the matches from the week to keep you up to
Speaker 1: date on everything League one Volleyball. Then stick around after
Speaker 1: the analysis for interviews with some amazing people in in
Speaker 1: and around the sport. But for today's episode, we're just
Speaker 1: gonna keep it simple with Cat and I recapping Week three.
Speaker 1: First off, how are you doing?
Speaker 2: Cat?
Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm good coming. We're coming from my trip
Speaker 3: to Nebraska, coming off of a win. Obviously it's on
Speaker 3: a big high, but so far, I'm good.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys took down Go Lia.
Speaker 4: I know what this is. It was great. It was
Speaker 4: a great feeling for sure. Oh well, we're gonna get
Speaker 4: to that.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the last game we talked about, since
Speaker 1: it was the last game of Week three. But let's
Speaker 1: start with Wednesday's game because this was another exciting slate
Speaker 1: of games this entire weekend, showcasing the parody in this league.
Speaker 1: So Wednesday, Love Houston versus Love Salt Lake. It was
Speaker 1: Salt Lake's first serve and after using the first set,
Speaker 1: they managed to come back and win the following three
Speaker 1: to take their home opener twenty two, twenty five, twenty five, fifteen,
Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty four, twenty five nineteen. So what adjustments
Speaker 1: did you see Salt Lake make after that first set
Speaker 1: to take home the win?
Speaker 3: You know, I think the season so far, we haven't
Speaker 3: had a chance to see Scalar Fields out there, so
Speaker 3: herb being out there I think during a match definitely
Speaker 3: made a difference.
Speaker 4: Skyler was pourcy record with for sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well let's talk about her because she ended up
Speaker 1: getting Player of the game. She had seventeen kills on
Speaker 1: a three eighty five hitting percentage plus seven digs.
Speaker 4: In one block.
Speaker 1: Fields was absolutely flying when you watch her, I mean
Speaker 1: from the back row, she's so high crushing it. From
Speaker 1: the front row she's crushing it. She just seems unstoppable. Now,
Speaker 1: you know Skyler talk about her work ethic and how
Speaker 1: she's just able to absolutely crush it.
Speaker 3: You know, I've known Skylar since she was in high school,
Speaker 3: and obviously she was a heavy recruited athlete, especially going
Speaker 3: to Texas her first thing. She was their first two years,
Speaker 3: I think before transferring to USC and everyone says that.
Speaker 4: We look alike, you know, so I see it. She's
Speaker 4: like my little sister. I definitely see it.
Speaker 3: But being able to her from high school to college
Speaker 3: and just performing and being a great athlete going abroad
Speaker 3: she had Little Ston in Italy and came back and
Speaker 3: as well as PVF and seeing her out this week
Speaker 3: this past weekend was amazing.
Speaker 4: She really did her thing.
Speaker 1: What is it about Skyler's ability on the court to
Speaker 1: get so many kills, to find that empty space on
Speaker 1: the court.
Speaker 3: I think Skylar's out of diversity. She can play outside
Speaker 3: as well, was opposite. She's long, she's athletic. I think
Speaker 3: she reads really well as well as from the back court.
Speaker 3: Just being super athletic and using her you know, her
Speaker 3: body and get up to make high swings, I think
Speaker 3: she makes her a great athlete, especially her volleyball.
Speaker 1: I just want to give a shout out also as
Speaker 1: a honorary player of the game to Danny Druz, who
Speaker 1: is Yeah, she's from Sandy She's from Sandy Youthaw, which
Speaker 1: is not too far from Salt Lake, so she's kind
Speaker 1: of like home down here in that regard to and
Speaker 1: she she had thirteen kills, three aces, four blocks and
Speaker 1: eight digs. Danny was also amazing to watching.
Speaker 4: I love Jenny sound smiling.
Speaker 1: Well, why do you love her so much?
Speaker 2: Tell me what?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 3: So I had an opportunity to play with Danny and
Speaker 3: against Dana Ada in the AU season this year, and
Speaker 3: she is just a beautiful lie, honestly, just such a
Speaker 3: ray of sunshine. And honestly, Danny would never have a
Speaker 3: bad day. But I was having a bad day. But
Speaker 3: I go find her and look at her, and just
Speaker 3: she just this bright, beautiful smile, her golden brown eyes
Speaker 3: like all such in a great mood. So she's a
Speaker 3: great athlete. Playing with her was always so much fun,
Speaker 3: positive energy kind of player. And yeah, just a big
Speaker 3: ray of light for sure.
Speaker 4: Love it all.
Speaker 1: Right, Let's move to the next match, which was on Friday.
Speaker 1: It was Love Omaha's first serve and who better to
Speaker 1: face off against on opening night than Love Madison Now,
Speaker 1: although it was kind of like deja vu to last
Speaker 1: week because Omaha pulled off the win again in four sets,
Speaker 1: and this week it was twenty five, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: twenty six, twenty five, eighteen, twenty five, twenty three. Now
Speaker 1: your girl Germany opposite Kimberly Drevniak was nan player of
Speaker 1: the game after fourteen kills with the two ninety seven
Speaker 1: hitting percentage, three blocks and five digs. You gave her
Speaker 1: a shout out last week when she had nineteen kills
Speaker 1: against Madison. What does she doing that is just so
Speaker 1: consistent for her to be a force for Omaha.
Speaker 4: Kimberly is just such a unique hitter.
Speaker 3: You know, she has this great swing, a left arm
Speaker 3: hitter as well, and she has just so much range. Again,
Speaker 3: her positive outcome and her positive attitude in the core
Speaker 3: is also a huge like ray of sunshine.
Speaker 4: She's just such a phenomenal black ball player. She's amazing, amazing.
Speaker 1: Were there any other players from that match or anything
Speaker 1: specific when it comes to the game plan that you
Speaker 1: saw that really stood out.
Speaker 3: I'm also going your shout of Justine having a great
Speaker 3: liberro is honestly a cheat code like Justine is just
Speaker 3: absolutely amazing.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 3: I admired her as Wilson's playing Nebraska, and I think
Speaker 3: having some light down here on your end you feel
Speaker 3: come for as attack that to swing hard and swing
Speaker 3: hide and if you get blocked.
Speaker 4: You're gonna know the justin' gonna meet their digging.
Speaker 3: Those ball so that it was a great recovery and
Speaker 3: a great person having a team, So justin big.
Speaker 2: Shout out love it.
Speaker 1: Moving to Saturday doubleheader, we start with Love Atlanta versus
Speaker 1: Love Madison, a tough match that went to five sets,
Speaker 1: with Atlanta ultimately prevailing twenty five, twenty one, eighteen, twenty five,
Speaker 1: twenty five, seventeen, twenty twenty five, fifteen ten. It was
Speaker 1: a back and forth match that even Atlanta head coach
Speaker 1: Paulo Cocoa acknowledge, saying, you know, we played very well,
Speaker 1: sometimes we played very bad. Sometimes we were trying to
Speaker 1: get more stable. So what did Atlanta do to ultimately
Speaker 1: pull out that win?
Speaker 3: I think again, Panoy, I think she's also was player
Speaker 3: of the match. She had a snout of performance. She
Speaker 3: was everywhere again, she was taking a lot of balls,
Speaker 3: had a great passing reception for her. And I think
Speaker 3: also Tess always makes her mark when she comes in
Speaker 3: as well, and you know they're going to run an
Speaker 3: offense with everyone. So I think it was just a
Speaker 3: whole round like team kind of win for sure.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about a pianet Panoy del Libero for Atlanta.
Speaker 1: You know, she's thirty five, which I'm going to say,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm a little older than her, and she's making
Speaker 1: me want to go in. She's making me say, like,
Speaker 1: can I play pro?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 3: That's a secret sauce have that much experience and being
Speaker 3: at the age she is, she has played a lot
Speaker 3: of volleyball and she can see the floor really well,
Speaker 3: so it's definitely a secret weapon to be where she
Speaker 3: is in her career right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and to be that athletic and spry. I feel like,
Speaker 1: we mean, you got to be that low when the
Speaker 1: girls are hitting insane speeds, you know. I mean she's
Speaker 1: phenomenal and she was everywhere on the court too. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you mentioned Justine in the last game, how
Speaker 1: great it is have a good libero. You got Pannoy
Speaker 1: in this match too. But when you're on offense hitting
Speaker 1: at that libero, what's kind of going through your mind
Speaker 1: to try to find the holes?
Speaker 4: If you can find the holes? Yeah, the biggest thing
Speaker 4: you think about is first obviously as the block.
Speaker 3: But obviously when you're a strong attacker, you're competent in
Speaker 3: your arm swing and you're very consistent. The next problem
Speaker 3: is obviously Liberro. So you know, honestly, you want to
Speaker 3: kind of move them around a little bit. You can
Speaker 3: post some tips in every now and then and kind
Speaker 3: of catch them all balance like that kind of hope
Speaker 3: she work out, But justin picks up everything, pulling on
Speaker 3: our picks up everything all Libert's pick up everything. The
Speaker 3: Baro's in these lake and this lake is really good.
Speaker 3: So it's just difficult. It's definitely difficult.
Speaker 1: In the last match of the weekend, your team Love
Speaker 1: Austin taking down undefeated love Omaha in their house.
Speaker 4: Sorry, not too much.
Speaker 1: You won twenty five, twenty three, twenty five, twenty twenty five, fifteen,
Speaker 1: So tell me about that match. What did your team
Speaker 1: do that no other team has been able to do
Speaker 1: so far?
Speaker 3: Preparation honestly, Like, you know, it's different when you're watching
Speaker 3: video and film and you know you're in a room
Speaker 3: and trying to dicuss ideas what you can do, but
Speaker 3: it kind of just turns up a little bit different.
Speaker 3: I think when you're on the court, you know, things
Speaker 3: change and I love that, like we're able to adjust
Speaker 3: very quickly, and you know, starting the match, they had
Speaker 3: another Outsie Comen the normal a girl that never normally
Speaker 3: wouldn't play and we adjusted very well.
Speaker 4: So I think blocking.
Speaker 3: Texas volleyball was known for blocking, I think all across
Speaker 3: the country, and we have a lot of Texas players
Speaker 3: and blocking is what we do for sure, so blocking
Speaker 3: definitely was.
Speaker 4: It was lights out.
Speaker 1: Now recent Texas alum opposite Mattie Skinner was named Player
Speaker 1: of the game. She had ten kills or fifty attack percentage,
Speaker 1: two blocks. So what's Maddy like? What does she bring
Speaker 1: to the court? Coming straight from college?
Speaker 3: You know, I admire her because she's coming shit from
Speaker 3: college and then coming into this environment, this atmosphere as well.
Speaker 3: It's like playing a position she hasn't played in a while,
Speaker 3: and so her maturity is outstanding, coming in every day,
Speaker 3: working hard and asking questions and just trying to get better.
Speaker 3: So Player of the Match is definitely deserving for shit.
Speaker 1: Being on the team, you have a nice little insights
Speaker 1: to the team, the players and everything going on. So
Speaker 1: can you talk about anyone else who you were playing
Speaker 1: with in that match that really stood out as a leader.
Speaker 3: As great as Maddie was, I think Chiaka was just
Speaker 3: as great as well.
Speaker 4: Chiaka is such a great leader.
Speaker 3: I know before the match she actually kind of like
Speaker 3: set us down and was like, hey, okay, you know what,
Speaker 3: let's all give them the same page.
Speaker 4: Does anyone have any questions? It's clarifying things for people.
Speaker 3: Let's kind of like make sure we're all together and
Speaker 3: once we get out there, and just from the start
Speaker 3: of the game and going out and performing the way
Speaker 3: she did.
Speaker 4: Was amazing, you know. So it was a great night.
Speaker 3: We had some laughs, you know, Mollie hit On in
Speaker 3: the back of the head with a serve and I
Speaker 3: was losing it on the bench about that. But it
Speaker 3: was a great night. The vibes were high, energy was high.
Speaker 3: Marco was all so like, very intense and join the match.
Speaker 4: All across the board, everyone was really prepared to go.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 1: Well, now that there are no more undefeated teams in
Speaker 1: League One, and you know, as I said at the start,
Speaker 1: there is so much parody, the matches are even more
Speaker 1: exciting to watch as the season progresses. Oh yes, so tough,
Speaker 1: but so fun to watch. So let's look ahead to
Speaker 1: week four. Which match are you looking forward to watching
Speaker 1: week four?
Speaker 4: So who do we have up this week?
Speaker 1: So we got Houston versus Madison. Yes, Salt Lake versus
Speaker 1: Atlanta on Friday, you guys, versus Salt Lake on Saturday,
Speaker 1: and then Omaha versus Atlanta Saturday nights.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna say as versus Salt Lake just because
Speaker 3: we're two matchups that haven't been seen yet. You know,
Speaker 3: some of my also my friends Tory Dixon are playing
Speaker 3: on that team is also a great metal blocker, and
Speaker 3: I think we match up pretty well versus Lake.
Speaker 4: So I'm excited to see that match for sure.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I'm gonna have to give a
Speaker 1: little shout out to Omaha Atlanta on that Saturday too,
Speaker 1: so make sure you stick around and watch that one,
Speaker 1: just because they're fun to watch. But if you look
Speaker 1: at their stats, Omaha and Atlanta are the top two
Speaker 1: teams in kill percentage with Atlanta being one, in kill
Speaker 1: efficiency with Omaha being one, but then on defense the
Speaker 1: pass efficiency and good past percentage, Atlanta's number one and
Speaker 1: also I mean Omaha's number two. So it's like you
Speaker 1: got the best kill percentage, kill efficiency, the best pass efficiency,
Speaker 1: good past percentage going head to ahead.
Speaker 3: Just mean it's gonna be a lot of big kills
Speaker 3: and a lot of big blocks, So that's for sure.
Speaker 4: Up, that's going to be exciting.
Speaker 1: Well, that is it for this week. Week four begins Wednesday,
Speaker 1: January twenty ninth, with Love Madison hosting Love Houston at
Speaker 1: eight pm Eastern. Thanks for listening this week. Serving Pancakes
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