The final round of Perth & Kinross District’s Recreational Volleyball fixtures took place at Perth College last Sunday evening and Jayne Cafferty’s league leaders Nae Fear confirmed their superiority by winning their two remaining games, giving them an impressive 100% record.
Their first game was against Barbara Moffat’s Tay Pearls and Pearls pushed the league leaders all the way before eventually going down 22-25; 21-25. It was a similar story when Brian Hutton’s PLUS Perth Mental Health team played the league leaders with Nae Fear edging victory 25-19; 25-21 to see them finish well clear of all the other teams. Pearls had another tough match against Aberfeldy with the Breadalbane side edging the first set 26-24 before winning the second set 25-18. Pearls finished their fixtures with another close match against Michael Donaldson’s Kinross McDuvel’s side eventually losing out 28-30, 15-25. Kinross won their remaining game against Strathallan to finish as league runners’ up.
Aberfeldy were involved in an even closer game against Crieff with Aberfeldy winning the first set 25-15 only for the Strathearn side to level the game with a second set score of 25-22 to set up a third set decider. The third set went to Aberfeldy15-8 to see them finish the evening with two wins out of two.
Crieff finished their fixtures with a two set to love win over bottom side Kinross High School who finished their league programme with a win over Strathallan.
St Juan’s game against PLUS Perth Mental Health resulted in an unusual drawn match with the St John’s Academy side winning the first set 25-23 only for PLUS Perth to level things with a second set 25-15 win. The third set decider was poised at 11 points each when full time was called. St Juan finished their league season with a two sets to love win over Strathallan.
How they finished;
Play W L D Sts+ Sts – F A Points
Nae Fear 18 18 0 0 36 1 913 629 178
Kinross McDuvels 18 13 0 5 29 11 882 635 137
Motley Crew 18 11 2 5 25 14 865 716 122
Perth PLUS Mental Health 18 11 1 6 22 15 853 721 116
St Juan 18 9 2 7 22 19 812 793 116
Crieff 18 5 0 13 16 26 788 862 87
Aberfeldy 18 6 2 10 16 24 780 811 86
Tay Pearls 18 6 1 11 15 25 793 833 78
Strathallan 18 6 0 12 13 27 630 871 70
Kinross High School 18 1 0 17 2 34 405 850 27