Crazy Plays

[Texas Aggie]

Haven't worked volleyball in years, but I did it for a couple of years in college. One night in a small 1-A school (lowest class in Texas), they have a wooden stand. Its a little wobbley, but I'm OK on it. In the third game, the ball come over toward me with two girls chasing it, and they crash into the stand. I realize then this thing is going down, so I grab on to the net cable, push off and jump AND hope my partner has the call! I think we called a replay.

Anyway, the thing was busted so we had to use stacked chairs for me to finish (only about 10 more minutes of match time, if that). I didn't like that idea, but I didn't have a hammer in my truck and no one had any nails, or I would have rebuilt the stand sufficient to finish. In fact, some guy who I think had been yelling at me the whole match (behind my back, so I'm not sure) came out of the stands and offered to help me do just that, but when we realized that wasn't going to happen, he and two other guys found the chairs and held them while I stood periously on them.

[MCBear]

Server hit the ball and it was heading out-of-bounds at the far end line. Middle back was near the end line and turned to watch the ball go out when suddenly, the serve dropped off the table (Major League Baseball would have been proud...a great sinker, if I ever saw one) and the ball deflected off the shoulder of the Middle Back and then out-of-bounds. She never saw the ball coming at her and looked totally stunned when it bounced off of her when she expected to see it sailing far beyond the endline.

[MCBear]

I was tournament directing the Area League Regionals at Foothill College in Los Altos this weekend and I chose to referee the tournament championship game on Sunday between Menalto VBC 18-1 and NYCV Brooklyn 18-1. In the second game, we have a great rally going between the two teams. NYCV hit a ball that looked like it was going to be down for sure. Somehow, the Menalto player got to the ball and it hit her on the shoulder as she wass diving toward the centerline. The ball popped up while NYCV was celebrating the kill. Another Menalto player bumped the ball to an outside hitter and NYCV had to scramble to recover as they realized that the whistle had not sounded to end the rally. All in all, a wacky play, because there was no way that the bal should have come up after the NYCV player spiked it (but it did!!!)

[Mrcrash3]

Now that's what I'm talking about
Thanx for the replys

[OmniSpiker]

Well one time there was this one net that was sort of cheap. So spike after spike goes into it and the ball just get's sling shot back out. except this one ball! A guy hit it soo hard that it broke the netting and the ball came through. The team was cheering at the spike kill, but since I was reffing, LOL's I said that it was a dead play and the ball did not clear the net. Ha ha ha. but it was even more funny that the second spike there after came right through that same broken hole in the net.

[MCBear]

I was refereeing a boys' match a couple of years ago and did not notice that there was a torn section just below the cable in the middle of the net. We are playing along and the team on my left is serving. Server hits the ball and it is a bullet. I try to get ahead of the ball to see the contact by the receiving team when I hear the ball hit the net cable. I turn my head back just in time to see the ball contact the floor on the receiving team's side about two feet beyond the centerline. I assumed that there was a let serve and begin to award a point to the serving team. The receiving team came totally unglued and I had no idea what the heck they were complaining about.

The captain of the receiving team came to the stand and told me that the ball went through the torn section of the net and did not go over it. I called my line judge over and asked him what had happened. He said that the served ball had hit the net cable and gone through the torn section in the net to land on the court. Once I had confirmation of what had happened, I signaled net serve on the serving team and awarded loss of rally to the opponent.

Ever since then, when I see a net with even a slight tear, I get some adhesive tape and make sure that it is patched enough that a ball cannot get through it.

[Vb Scrub]

I got mad and swung down on the ball to bounce it off the floor and it bounced straight back into my face.

A blocker who had played volleyball internationally and was now playing collegiately jumped up and beautifully roofed a ball straight down...too bad it was the other teams serve.

A girl goes up to hit, swings, completely misses the ball and it bounces over the net from off of her head. I also have swung at a ball on game point and completely missed the ball before it ever got to me.

Playing in a co-ed tournament and the first ball of the tournament was hit by the other team which our setter reached out one arm (having normally played weak co-ed or weak women's) to play the ball and broke her arm so she missed the entire tournament because of the first attacked ball on the first rally. Not really a crazy play but odd and kinda sad.