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68th All Japan Intercollegiate Women's Championship 2021 (Nov 29–Dec 5)

    Now Tsukuba is running away with it in set 2

    Tsukuba #7 is a new face I don't know anything about, in for The Real Yoshino Sato. Nice back attacks


    Tsukuba is plating a little more aggressively but also playing the "let the other team make mistakes" game. Nagasaki is complying

    :woohoo::dance4::woohoo:



    Nagasaki takes set 3 in overtime 28–26

    Nagasaki is giving it all they got but The Real Yoshino Sato has turned it up

    Tsukuba gets Bronze


    Except for the 2nd set it was a nice, competitive match :thumbup:

    Tokai's other OH # 20, Haruko Sasaki, just popped up out of a nowhere HS and is playing a fine game. Tokai's a notch up at every position over NSSU. Miyabe expecially


    Tokai's #1 MB and Captain, Sayaka Yokota, is Denso's Yokota's younger sister

    What was up with that 2 setter thing? #3 is Tokai's backup setter

    Tokai gets Gold. Well deserved . Congratulations Mermaids :cup:

    FINAL RESULTS and AWARDS


    GOLD

    Tokai Mermaids :cup:

    SILVER

    NSSU

    BRONZE

    Tsukuba


    4th Place

    Nagasaki International

    5th Place

    NIFS

    Shokei Gakuin

    Aoyama Gakuin

    Senri Kinran


    Individual Awards

    Award Player School (year)

    MVP

    Sayaka Yokota

    Tokai 4

    Dare Fighter

    Hitomi Shiode

    NSSU 4

    Best Scorer

    Ameze Miyabe

    Tokai 2

    Best Spiker

    Ameze Miyabe

    Tokai 2

    Best Blocker

    Ayaka Eto

    NSSU 3

    Best Server

    Haruka Oyama

    Tsukuba 2

    Best Receiver

    Risa Takahira

    Nagasaki 4

    Best Setter

    Tsukasa Nakagawa

    Tokai 3

    Best Libero

    Haruna Kawabata

    Tokai 3



    Final Matches

    Tokai

    3–0

    NSSU

    Univas

    A • 25-18, 25-22, 25-20
    3rd Place Match
    Tsukuba 3–1 Nagasaki Univas A • 26-24, 25-11, 26-28, 25-20

    Just for posterity here is my best guess at the wonderful Nagasaki International University's starting lineup for the Bronze match. These girls deserve some immortality:


    Player Name
    		Height High School
    		 Uni Year

    ① Risa Takahira OH

    4 Yukino Yano OH

    8 Makoto Kurihara MB

    10 Reina Kuwaoka OP

    12 Ryoka Shimada S

    16 Arisa Sato MB

    2 Miyami Arisono L

    高比良理沙

    矢野ゆきの

    栗原真愛

    桑岡玲菜

    島田涼夏

    里有紗

    有薗未也美

    		 165
    165
    177
    164
    164
    174
    156

    Kyushu Bunka

    Usuki

    Kyushu Bunka

    Kyushu Bunka

    Kyushu Bunka

    Kyushu Bunka

    Kyushu Bunka

    4

    4

    4

    3

    3

    2

    4


    Risa Takahira won the Best Receiver Award .


    I'm going to give them all volleybox pages so they will live on forever :rose: