All team blog posts of Harambee

With only one game left before Christmas, Gents 1 only lost 4 sets in the 3rd division so far. The last game of the year would probably be a difficult one, as previous years the battle in Diepenheim against Time Out’75 always turned out to be an exciting and difficult one. After a lunch at the campus, we left fully prepared for another tough game. Unfortunately, the engine of Gents 1 took an entire set to properly warm up, and the first set resulted in a 25-17 defeat. After some small changes and a few en... Read more

Aloha reader(s), The match against Aasstad, the number one in our competition, was fairly short, but not too powerful. And despite the referee saying afterwards that we were playing quite well, but simply having trouble with two or three players' services, we thought that it was a match to forget soon. We got off to a good start in the changingroom, when it turned out that one of the middles had forgotten her sportshoes. Lucky for us, another Harambee team was playing before us with a coach whose shoes we c... Read more

Aloha reader(s), Last Saturday it was time for the first match of the second half of the competition, where we will face all our opponents again. Since we did not manage to win very many sets in the first half, 5 to be exact, we thought we could start the year well against Twente-Sparta. Although the last time we had played against them we had lost 0-4, during the cup matches we had won one set from them. Moreover, today we were complete as a team, which had happened once before this season, namely in the o... Read more

The game against Tornax on their home ground was a seesaw game, with us winning the first, third, and fifth set, while the opponents won the sescond and fourth sets. From this game the team realized that it is important to manage consistency throughout a match. We were crushing the enemy in one set, and then faltering and tripping on our own feet the other. This is still a 4 point win for Gents 3, but the team wants to get as many 5 point wins in the future as possible.... Read more

Om te compenseren voor het boek van eergister, houden we het vandaag kort.    Huh? Op zondag een wedstrijd?! Ja ja, dames 3 heeft het weer voor elkaar! Maar, dit was niet een zomaar een wedstrijd, dit was de spannendste wedstrijd van het jaar!    Zo mochten de biggetjes het opnemen tegen de Hawaiaanse dames 2 (+ 2 califournian girls). Even een kleine spoiler: de biggetjes hebben elke set de 25 punten aangetikt!!!! Hebben ze een set gewonnen? Nee.. dat niet…    “Waar komt dit succes ineens vandaan?... Read more

Hoe succesvol de stapavond gister was, hoe waardeloos deze wedstrijd was. Laten we bij het begin beginnen.    Eerst waren de biggetjes welkom in Lianne’s nieuwe crib, waar een heerlijk brouwsel was voorbereid. Echter kon er niet besloten worden of dat dit brouwsel onder de naam “pan lasagne” of “lasagne soep” voort moest gaan.    Vervolgens stuitten de biggetjes op het eerste probleem van de avond. Hoe komen we allemaal op de wedstrijd locatie? Nu denkt u misschien: “huh, het was toch een th... Read more

A warm welcome to all our readers. Today we are back to give an overview of the recent games the fighters of Harambee Heren 1 have had. Starting things off with a home match, that almost did not happen, against Skopein Wivoc HS1. Our opponent wanted to cancel the game due to injuries and lack of players, however, we were already in the mindset of playing and did not want to cancel. On the game day we were unsure whether our opponent would even show up. To our fortune, they did show, but only with 6 players.... Read more

On the 18th of December, Heren 1 played another round in the cup match against a promotie class team - Dros-Alterno HS 3. It was a perfect opportunity to have a game before meeting Time-Out 75 HS1 for the last match of the calendar year. The game began well, and we had a good lead, we had a good passing, were scoring well, however struggled in blocking and defending. We managed to make things especially interesting, allowing our opponents to tie the score at 23:23. This is the type of suspenseful game Wybre... Read more

Already a week after our previous game, we were faced against Monica’s arch-nemesis, Fysio Aastad HS1. The far fetching rivalry promised a good game full of fighting and that it was. The game started off with trading points, after which Wybren went off on a 6-point serving-spree, extending our lead to 7:1. However, unable to score, we gave away our lead and gave the opponent a fighting chance. In the middle of the set we managed to get ahead once more, having a 5-6-point lead. Winning the initial set felt... Read more

Aloha reader(s), Saturday December 7th, we had to play a match against Apollo 8 DS5. There was a lot of audience for encouragement, partly because it was home weekend, but also because Apollo had brought quite some spectators from Borne. During the cup games we had already played against them, in which we had lost 3-0 (25-19, 25-18, 25-18). So, we knew it was going to be a tough match, in which there was not much room to fall behind. Fortunately, we played a nice match, in which mainly the service was not s... Read more