{"id":928,"date":"2021-09-03T05:53:54","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T05:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/rwanda-takes-on-japan-in-sitting-volleyball"},"modified":"2021-09-03T06:58:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T06:58:06","slug":"rwanda-takes-on-japan-in-sitting-volleyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/rwanda-takes-on-japan-in-sitting-volleyball","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Takes On Japan In Sitting Volleyball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\">Rwanda<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Rwanda is scheduled to takeon Japan on Friday evening in the womens sitting volleyball at the ongoing Paralympics in Tokyo. The World ParaVolley kicked off on August 24 and will conclude on September 5 according to the fixture list for both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s competitions at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.<\/p>\n<p>Team Rwanda is drawn from Group B alongside USA, China, Russia. Meanwhile Group A includes; Japan, Canada, Brazil and Italy. Team Rwanda are the African champions in the women\u2019s sitting volleyball.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is the first Sub-Saharan women\u2019s team in history, in any sport, to compete at the Paralympic Games at Rio 2016. Meanwhile, with the U.S. leading 24-22 and about to serve for match point in a must-win women\u2019s sitting volleyball encounter Wednesday, the Russian Paralympic Committee called a time out.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. coach Bill Hamiter took the occasion to offer his team a little advice. \u201cLet your training do the work,\u201d Hamiter told his players during the break.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans returned to the court at Makuhari Messe Hall, and Heather Erickson immediately served for the deciding point that gave the U.S. a 3-0 victory over the RPC (25-19, 25-15, 25-22) and propelled the defending Paralympic gold medalists into the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S., which scored the final five points of the third set, will face Brazil, a 3-1 winner over Italy, in the first semifinal on Friday. China and Canada will square off in the other semifinal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know them pretty well,\u201d said Hamiter of Brazil. \u201cOf course, we\u2019ll start looking at the video that we have, breaking things down, start our preparations tonight, actually, so we can go through our practice plans tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. and the RPC had entered the match with identical 1-1 records in Pool B preliminary round play. They had each defeated Rwanda in straight sets but lost 3-0 decisions to China. The U.S. was coming off the loss to China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sided out way better today than we did against China,\u201d Hamiter said. \u201cI don\u2019t know that we attacked better. I think it was maybe more well-timed plays, some things like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur vision of the court was way better today \u2014 seeing blocks, seeing what\u2019s open, making smart shots, limiting our errors \u2014 all those little things that matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the Americans won the first two sets with relative ease, the RPC fought back to lead most of the way in the third set and threatened to extend the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know if they were feeling as much pressure as I was,\u201d Hamiter said of his players. \u201cEvery one of the games that I\u2019ve coached, we\u2019ve always had to win one of those matches to make it into the medal rounds. So, we\u2019re used to it, but it\u2019s always one of those things where you sweat it out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI liked the first two sets, and then that third set (we) had to struggle a little bit, but then (had) a great comeback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. battled back and eventually tied it at 20-20 on a Lora Webster serve. The RPC scored the next two to go up 22-20, but then the Americans went on their closing spurt to put away the match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we did today directly built off of what we tried to work on yesterday,\u201d Webster said. \u201cIn the third set, we came out behind, and we had to dig ourselves out of a hole, and there was no frantic energy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody was calm. We all knew what we had to do. And that just goes to show what we worked on yesterday really showed up on the court, and I\u2019m just excited by what we did.\u201d According to Webster, as the Americans head into the semifinals, they will focus on what they can control on their side of the net.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are going to falter, but it\u2019s a team sport for a reason,\u201d Webster said. \u201cSo, we\u2019ve got to figure out how to pick each other up, and we did that here. And as long as we continue to do that, then we\u2019ll be on the right trajectory going into the semifinals and, hopefully, into the finals.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. Rwanda is scheduled to takeon Japan on Friday evening in the womens sitting volleyball at the ongoing Paralympics in Tokyo. The World ParaVolley kicked off on August 24 and will conclude on September 5 according to the fixture list for both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s competitions at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. 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