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WE’RE GOING TO THE FINALS! QUERO DIZER “WE ARE IN THE FINALS!” Hallelujah! Boy it was a tough series. Both matches were five gamers. In each we lost the first set. We really need to get out of the blocks faster. Against Rexona it will be much more difficult to come back from being down …

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Woohoo, we have qualified for the semi finals. Never a doubt in my mind but Medley/Banespa really played their heart out; so congrats to them. We thumped them the first set but again seemed to relax after that losing the second. Everyone entered the match to help in the victory. I scored 17 points in …

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The playoff have begun and we have our first victory in the best of three quarter final series verses Banespa. It theoretically should have been an easier match but they came out with a sponsor, uniform and nothing to loose attitude that won them the first set and a 24-27 battle in the fourth set. …

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Well, just when we jumped a pr it seemed by winning the third round finals against Rexona, it seemed on yesterday we couldn’t even do the fundamental steps. Don’t get me wrong, we had a few come back moments but for the most part we were a bit lost. Our block and defense was not …

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Howdy do…. Well we are coming off two wins from the appropriately named Belo Horizonte as it is a beautiful city. First a 3-0 win against Mckenzie followed by a 3-0 victory against Minus. Minus had great crowd there. Apparently there is some rivalry between our teams as we changed our routine a bit to …

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One more victory under our belts with our win over Pinheiros (3-0) who has a good team but was not able to perform well tonight. With our tough serves and blocking they had a very difficult time. Good for us. We did our part. I added 7 points to the victory. Seems my rotations blow …

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Well the start of the fourth round is on the way and we began with a win 3-0 over Sport Recife. Sport Recife fought hard digging lots of balls. I finished the match six kills on nine attempts and one block. Elisangela played well being our teams highest scorer. Today is Sunday. We all slept …

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Hello All, While it is not good to dwell on loses…it seems since our victory over Rexona is still fresh in the minds of others. Today we had a half day off so I took my mom to get a manicure/pedicure and I got a massage. Some of the women who worked there immediately greeted …

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Praise be to God! We beat Rexona three sets to one in the third round finals! And I was named player of the match. But as I responded to an interview question which asked how I felt about it… I said well I am happy about it but it really belongs to the team as …

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Hello All, We beat Banespa in three. We were hoping to take this momentum into to match against Rexona but we got of to a slow start losing the first set . We won a close second set but just could not sustain. Positive we qualified for the third mini-final. It will be against Rexona …

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Well, we’ve had a good start this third tournament, beating Brazil Telecom 3-1, Sao Caetano 3-0 and Volei Futuro 3-0. Tomorrow we will play Banespa followed by Rexona on Tuesday. Winning the next two matches will bring the third finals to Osasco. My mom made it. We celebrated her birthday Feb 10 with a surprise …

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Here I am on Wednesday evening reporting the horribly depressing news of our loss. OK depressed is a bit exaggerated but extremely disappointed might be a better description. Still on dial up hating life but I guess I have to do what I have to do. Boy, we seem to like taking the lead and …

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Geeez, I have really been doing a not so consistent job of updating, as a follower mentioned to me at the airport on my way to Rio a couple of days ago. My apologies. But I have several excuses. One I am on dial up! Two, I’ve just not found or rather made time in …

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Hello long time since the last update…. Lots to tell but I will keep it short. Let’s see. We had a match on Dec. 22 9:27am! Can you believe such and early match on a Sunday? It was televised on Global, which is a nationwide channel. Kind of like USA NBC or CBS or Italy’s …

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Third match down of the first four match series to round one finals. We beat Mackenzie 3-0. I was impressed with their enthusiasm and vigor… Of course they have a good coach to motivate them. I think the match was a challenging as expected. Tomorrow we will have a tougher match against Minus who also …

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Update time, Well, it has been a nice weekend. First and far most beating Pineiros 3-1. It would have been better to win 3-0 as Rexona in the other pool lost a set to an opponent. This is important as I explained in one of the other blogs that there are four mini finals. Each …

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Okay… 3-0 for our opening match. Boy what a long return home. I think we had head wind or something. We left right after the match, dined at the airport and arrived 3:30 in the morning. We have all of Tuesday off. I took advantage of sleeping in. The match was fine. Recife’s number 6 …

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Hello, Well, we are getting ready to travel up north to Recife for our first Superliga match. I experience carnival there once many years ago. Wow, super crowded. And lots of ants! Large ones! Anyway, I am looking forward to going there. Although, it will be really hot. Yep, like being back in Baton Rouge, …

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We are the champions my friend! Paulist Champions 2007 FINASA OSASCO! Well, this was the ninth Paulist title for Finasa. What a great moment and feeling to be apart of it. Though my role was relatively small in that I only participated in the final three matches, it still was an amazing feeling to win …

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