North Lanarkshire Volleyball Club’s teams both won at the weekend on opposite sides of the country.

Feb 18 2010 by Andrew McGilvray, Hamilton Advertiser

BOTH North Lanarkshire Volleyball Club teams tasted success at the weekend.

Bellshill Cardinals beat Pentland NUVOC 4-1 in Edinburgh, while the North Lanarkshire Ladies visited South Ayrshire and returned home with a 3-2 scoreline.

Bellshill’s win was made more impressive given that Cardinals had only the regulation six players, with a setter having to double up as a main hitter.

NUVOC took the opening set 25-19, but Bellshill came storming back to take the next two 25-23 and 26-24.

This effectively ended the game as a contest and Cardinals won the next two sets 25-19 and 15-9.

North Lanarkshire’s clash proved to be a much tighter affair and no love was lost on Valentine’s Day.

The first set saw North playing some good volleyball, with eight serves from Kay Morrison helped them to a 25-18 score.

Ayrshire took the second set but Lanarkshire restored their lead.

The fourth set was a ding-dong battle but South Ayrshire held out to force the match into a deciding fifth set but North’s experience came through against their much younger opponents.