| V.League Teams | Schools |
|---|---|
| JT Marvelous Toyota Body Queens Toray Arrows NEC Red Rockets Saitama Ageo Medics Okayama Seagulls Denso Airybees Hitachi Rivale KUROBE Aqua Fairies PFU Blue Cats Victorina Himeji |
Colleges and Universities: University of Tsukuba Aoyama Gakuin University Shoin University High Schools: Shimokitazawa Seitoku Kinrankai |
| One Team | Another Team |
Set 1 |
Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
JT Marvelous |
3–0 | Kinrankai H.S. |
25−17 | 25−19 | 25−21 | ||
| Toray Arrows | 3–0 | Shimokitazawa Seitoku | 25–23 | 25–19 | 25–16 | ||
| Hitachi Rivale | 3–2 | PFU Blue Cats | 25–17 | 23–25 | 22–25 | 25–16 | 15–9 |
| Okayama Seagulls | 3–0 | University of Tsukuba | 25–17 | 25–13 | 25–23 | ||
| Toyota Body Queens | 3–1 | Victorina Himeji | 26–24 | 25–16 | 28–30 | 25–22 | |
| NEC Red Rockets | 3–0 | Shoin University | 25–14 | 25–10 | 25–16 | ||
| Denso Airybees | 2–3 | Aoyama Gakuin University | 18–25 | 20–25 | 25–17 | 25–13 | 14–16 |
| Saitama Ageo Medics | 3–1 | KUROBE Aqua Fairies | 17–25 | 25–14 | 29–27 | 25–18 |
No idea about rosters or stats.
Poor Denso 
Okayama is on a roll 
Himeji didn't do too bad against Toyota. I think Toyota is the team that knocked Himeji out of the Empress Cup. I'll have a talk with them.
A little Kurowashiki promotion gossip from the JVA:
Haruna Soga, double H.S. champion from Kinrankai, who joined the NEC Red Rockets got her picture on the web site. She's switching from MB to OP with NEC.
From what I could discern watching HS matches the MBs are more MB/OP hybrids. They don't really do slide attacks. They MB and then gear up for traditional OP attacks. Soga did have an effective diagonal slide/OP kaboomba kind of thing going on, so this seems natural. She also wants to receive. Look out Misaki Yamauchi! Haruna's coming for your job. She seems kinda sassy just like you 
And hey, pope , she's 173cm 
oh 1.73cm.....hopefully she grows a few inches...lol
I like her name ....Soga - Koga.... I wonder what the translator will translate Soga into
When it comes to japanese players, you are as passionate as Kelsey Robinson on court.
I'm not very familiar with Kelsey Robinson, but your vibes are suggesting I take that as a compliment 
I like her name ....Soga - Koga
Double down on that -- Haruna Soga / Sarina Koga -- and say it real fast ten times 
Soga seems to come through on translation but her first name often comes up as Akirana. 
I think this has to do with the two different ways you can write Japanese --which I don't understand well enough to say anything more than that about it. On her HS page she's named ソガ ハルナ and 曽我 啓菜
I wonder what the translator will translate Soga into
Got me thinking maybe you meant 'what might Soga mean'? I forget that people's names in a lot of the world have meanings. American names don't have that feature. Like "Soga" might mean "little flower" or something.
Long story short. There's a girl on the Chinzei HS team whose name translates as Village Walnuts.
Got me thinking maybe you meant 'what might Soga mean'? I forget that people's names in a lot of the world have meanings. American names don't have that feature. Like "Soga" might mean "little flower" or something.
Long story short. There's a girl on the Chinzei HS team whose name translates as Village Walnuts.
I was wondering what the translator would translate her name to....just like Kurogo = Love after Dark. Little Flower sounds very cute.
Village Walnuts ... that is a good one.
But u know the best name translations I get is on the Polish League. I`m sorry if this is inappropriate but Bartosz Kurek translates into Bartosz's cock
| One Team | Another Team |
Set 1 |
Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
University of Tsukuba |
3–1 | Shimokitazawa Seitoku | 25–19 | 25–23 | 23–25 | 25–21 | |
| KUROBE Aqua Fairies | 3–0 | Shoin University | 25–15 | 25–17 | 25–20 | ||
| PFU Blue Cats | 3–0 | Kinrankai H.S. | 25–13 | 25–17 | 25–14 | ||
| Aoyama Gakuin University | 1–3 | Victorina Himeji | 17–25 | 17–25 | 28–26 | 21–25 | |
| JT Marvelous | 3–2 | Hitachi Rivale | 15–25 | 25–23 | 13–25 | 25–14 | 15–12 |
| Toray Arrows |
0–3 | Okayama Seagulls | 22–25 | 21–25 | 17–25 | ||
| Toyota Body Queens | 1–3 | Denso Airybees | 17–25 | 13–25 | 26–24 | 16–25 | |
| NEC Red Rockets | 1–3 | Saitama Ageo Medics | 20–25 | 23–25 | 25–23 | 25–27 |
Kinrankai H.S hasn't won a set yet, but they did lose Yuki Nishikawa, Rena Mizusugi, and Haruna 'little flower' Soga to the pros, and Ameze Miyabe is off with the NT. It just occurred to me that on Day 1 Kinrankai played JT Marvelous, which is where Yuki Nishikawa is. I wonder if she got court time against her alma mater. That would have been the party thing to do.
I guess Himeji is still considered a V2 contestant, and they played students, so technically we can't call this their first V1 win. Heck, I'll do it anyway. Congratulations Himeji 
Presumably Toray isn't at full strength but ... Okayama anyway.
NEC
Does anyone know how much this thing pays?
"Pick up a rookie player shiny active in this arena. We will introduce the college players"
I can't resist. 22 y/old Okayama Teen Idol Mayu Oikawa gets her photo on the JVA site today. Just look at her with her smile, next to NoSmiler extraordinaire, faux ambidextrous love magnet Sanae Watanabe.
Priceless
| One Team | Another Team |
Set 1 |
Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
JT Marvelous |
3–1 | Toyota Body Queens | 27–29 |
25–20 | 28–26 | 25–20 | |
| Toray Arrows | 3–0 | Saitama Ageo Medics | 25–18 | 25–17 | 25–23 | ||
|
Hitachi Rivale |
3–1 | Denso Airybees |
25–20 |
20–25 |
28–26 |
25–22 | |
| Okayama Seagulls | 3–1 | NEC Red Rockets | 25–21 | 25–17 | 17–25 | 25–16 |
Found some Stats in untranslatable pdfs at Osaka Volleyball Association. How do they do it?
Go Okayama Go
[Edit] Looks like it's - ( JT v Toray) - and - (Okayama v Hitachi) - in the Semis
Okayama v Toray
22 y/old Teen Idol Mayu Oikawa, pumps her fists in the air and smiles big after scoring a point while her teammates rush to the post-point huddle urging one another to CALM DOWN: "Stay calm, no smiling. It's only one point. No big deal. We still gotta get up and cook breakfast tomorrow and other mundane stuff." I think Moe Sasaki, on the left, just remembered she has a load of laundry to do.
Rhamat is still playing with NEC:
| One Team | Another Team |
Set 1 |
Set 2 | Set 3 | Set 4 | Set 5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
JT Marvelous |
1–3 | Toray Arrows | 25–22 |
21–25 | 23–25 | 16–25 | |
| Okayama Seagulls |
2–3 |
Hitachi Rivale | 21–25 |
25–21 |
25–20 |
17–25 | 10–15 |
Okayama loses set 1 and are down 16–19 in set 2 when Mayu Oikawa comes in for Aimi Kawashima. She turns things around. Plays well. Has fun. But all the high-fives and smiling took their toll and Okayama ran out of gas in the 4th set
Hitachi v Toray in the Final tomorrow
