Exhausting GameMonday, November 23 2009 Oh my god, I am really exhausted today. We had the competition from 2.30pm till 9.30 and that really used up

Monday, November 23 2009
Oh my god, I am really exhausted today. We had the competition from 2.30pm till 9.30 and that really used up all my stamina. Results of the competition? I and my team was able to barely make it into the semifinals without any lost games but it was really though on us.
Now for the details, we had 10 groups competing, and we were broken up into 2 big batches, each with 5 teams. From each batch all the teams are to compete against the other 4 teams in their batch the teams with the 2 highest scores in each batch are able to qualify for the semi-finals. For each win, a team gets 2 points and for a loss they get 1.
With that, let the competition begin!
The captains from each team drew lots to decide on which batch they will be on. Lucky for us, we didn’t have to face the strongest team in the preliminary matches. All the matches were played by best of 3 games method with 21 as game point. My group was the playing the 1st match and that made us very nervous. We were able to defeat the team with the final score of 2-0.
The second match was against the school female team with their group mates. Although they weren’t playing offensive but their defending skills were still good and to add on they had a lot of supporters making so much noise that the whole sports center was filled with their noise gave us a hell of a time but we were able to scrape a 2-1 win.
The next 2 matches ended in the same manner with barely wining results of 2-1. As a setter and experienced player I did badly as I was barely able to serve the balls into the court( I kept serving to the right side) and I didn’t really set the ball for my spikers to have a chance to do their job. I really regret I played so badly yesterday.
I did a lot of diving to save balls and since I am still not very good in diving, I ended up with a lot of bruises and now have contuses on both my knees and a very bad contusion on my right hip. It is so painful and sensitive that a slight touch on that part will make me want to yelp in pain. Though, there is nothing to worry as these bruises will heal over the next few days.