Volleyball question

[azom]

Please help me fill in the blank....

East Podunk won the first _____ 25-21....

 

[sportschick]

Game

 

[SCEditor]

Definitely game. The event is called a match. Each set of 25 is called a game.

 

[azom]

Thanks.

 

[Central-KY-Kid]

http://www.nfhs.org/web/2006/08/volleyball.aspx

http://www.psal.org/psalsports/articles/psal_stories.aspx?storyid=2849

http://library.thinkquest.org/C0122922/English/Site-wares/Volleyball_Dictionary/volleyball_dictionary.html

 

[WazzuGrad00]

My instinct is to go with "game" to avoid confusion with what a setter does. But the small amount of research I've done seems to indicate "set" is the more proper term.

 

[write then drink]

Please help me fill in the blank....

East Podunk won the first boring-as-hell piece-of-**** I-can't-believe-I'm-covering-this game, 25-21....

 

[champ]

My instinct is to go with "game" to avoid confusion with what a setter does. But the small amount of research I've done seems to indicate "set" is the more proper term.

No, set is not correct.

 

[sportschick]

My instinct is to go with "game" to avoid confusion with what a setter does. But the small amount of research I've done seems to indicate "set" is the more proper term.

No, set is not correct.

I covered college volleyball and HS level stuff when I was a reporter. I now work with a former college player, and I've never heard anyone refer to it as a set. In tennis, yea, but not in volleyball.

 

[Songbird]

Please help me fill in the blank....

East Podunk won the first _____ 25-21....

set

 

[Hank_Scorpio]

Please help me fill in the blank....

East Podunk won the first _____ 25-21....

set

As discussed earlier in the thread, nope. Each one is a game and the whole thing is a match.

http://www.nfhs.org/web/2007/02/200708_volleyball_points_of_emp.aspx

About halfway down on that link is a sample lineup card, which has a blank for which game it is.

 

[TheMethod]

I think this is one of those cases in which the people reading the story, i.e. the subjects of the story, will know what you're talking about.

 

[WazzuGrad00]

From the world and U.S. governing bodies (they both have the same wording):

TO WIN A SET
A set (except the deciding, 5th set) is won by the team which first scores
25 points with a minimum lead of two points. In the case of a 24-24 tie,
play is continued until a two-point lead is achieved (26-24; 27-25; ...).

6.3 TO WIN THE MATCH
6.3.1 The match is won by the team that wins three sets.
6.3.2 In the case of a 2-2 tie, the deciding set (the 5th) is
played to 15 points with a minimum lead of 2 points.

 

[Central-KY-Kid]

AP stylebook says game.

volleyball Games are won by the first team to score 15 points, unless it is necessary to continue until one team has a two-point spread.

Use a match summary. Example:

National AAU Men’s Volleyball

First Round

New York AC def. Illinois AC 15-7, 12-15, 19-17.

Vesper Boat Club, Philadelphia, def. Harvard 15-7, 15-8.

However, USA Volleyball uses set:

http://www.usavolleyball.org/VolleyballNews/news.asp?id=1778

 

[spikechiquet]

Man, HS volleyball starts THIS early for you?

 

[WazzuGrad00]

I really should have checked the stylebook.

 

[Jeremy Goodwin]

I say go with game. Gov bodies might say set, but to me it just doesn't sound right. To win a set in tennis you have to win six or more games. Because you only play three to five in volleyball sets aren't needed.

 

[Central-KY-Kid]

I know I posted what the AP Stylebook said to use, but my paper uses set for two reasons:

1) To stay consistent with tennis; use set for both.
2) Some coaches - and even players - refer to game when they should be using "match" instead. Like, "Tomorrow's game with Podunk City is huge as far as seeding is concerned for the postseason tournament."

So we use set and match and game (only in a quote). Granted we're not in a volleyball mecca - have had to deal with the sport for less than 7 years - and many readers, too, think game and match can be interchanged, but yet they seem to know what a set is.

 

[outofplace]

I know I posted what the AP Stylebook said to use, but my paper uses set for two reasons:

1) To stay consistent with tennis; use set for both.
2) Some coaches - and even players - refer to game when they should be using "match" instead. Like, "Tomorrow's game with Podunk City is huge as far as seeding is concerned for the postseason tournament."

So we use set and match and game (only in a quote). Granted we're not in a volleyball mecca - have had to deal with the sport for less than 7 years - and many readers, too, think game and match can be interchanged, but yet they seem to know what a set is.

That's the problem with volleyball, especially on the prep level. Even some of the coaches you will run into don't really know what the heck they are talking about.

At least a quarter of the programs we dealt with at my last stop were barely above the level of a Phys. Ed class pick-up game.

 

[Cansportschick]

Having played volleyball, the proper word is game and the whole kabuna is match.