Gymless beats Brotherhood

Round two of this year’s Rocball season got under way last week with team Gymless defeating the Brotherhood in three sets 35 to 29. Both teams had won their first games in round one and faced each other undefeated.

In their first set, both teams played equally well until Tyce Mister’s first of his two 3-point goals of the game gave team Gymless their biggest load of the set at 12 to 7. From there, team Gymless went on to take the first set 15 to 7.

In the second set, Brotherhood earns from one point in the hole to overtake and defeat Gymless by scoring a series of two-point aces. Brotherhood was trailing Gymless early in the set when their servers, load by Freddy Pelisamen, Steve Santos, and Ray Kaipat rifled in 6 two-point aces to overtake team Gymless.

In that second set and series of aces, Brotherhood went from 4 points to 6-8-10-12 and then ended it off with another ace for the win at 16 to 10.

In the third and final set, Tyce Mister of Gymless scored his second goal of the game on the first serve and volley that put Brotherhood three points in the hole. From there, Gymless was able to keep the lead until time ran out to win the third set 10 to 5 and the game, 36 to 29.

Tyce Mister of team Gymless is this year’s first “Master Blaster”. In his first two games of the regular season, Tyce has scored five of Rocball’s major scoring categories: ace, xunk, kee, goal, and jam.

In round two’s second game, last year’s World Rocball champions, the DX, lost their second game in a very close contest with the Jammers in four sets 28 to 30.

In the first set of this game, both teams played out a tough match with the Jammers winning 15 to 12. In the second set, the Jammers kept up their momentum by winning another match set 15 to 4.

In the third set DX found their rhythm and determination by scunking the Jammers 9 to 0. At the beginning of the fourth and final set the Jammers were leading in total points 30 to 25. The DX took the lead at 3 to 0 in the fourth set and seemed to be in control when time expired and the game ended with DX 3 points shy of a victory.

FIRST ROUND RESULTS: WIN LOSS
Brotherhood 1 0
Gymless 1 0
Bwilbwils 1 0
No-Fear 1 0
Igi-Odo 1 0
Shooting Star 1 0
DX 1 0
Jammers 0 1
NOYB 0 1
Chuukanos 0 1
No-Limit 0 1
Smackers 0 1

Next Game Schedule

Monday, Dec. 13 Bwilbwils vs No-Fear
Tuesday, Dec. 14 NOYB vs Chuukanos
Wednesday, Dec. 15 Igi-Odo vs Shooting Stars