Renewed Effort and Intensity Pay Off
The Sears Centre crowd of approximately 4,000 fans saw a much better Team USA effort compared to Friday night resulting in a 3-1 win against the visiting 2010 World League Pool C opponent, Finland. Last night�s star player Urpo Sivula was held to a �mere� 22 points when compared to his 31 point effort the night before. Clay Stanley lead Team USA with a total of 19 points including 3 from aces. Coach Alan Knipe made only one switch in starters replacing Sean Rooney with Matt Anderson on the left side. Anderson provided 16 points in the match including 2 aces and a block. Olympian Reid Priddy was removed from the match at the 3 � 3 mark in the second set replaced by Paul Lotman. Coach Knipe indicated that Reid �tweaked� his quad and he didn�t want to take any chances in furthering the injury. Team USA started out the first set with intensity jumping out to a 3 � 0 lead which they held throughout the entire set. The starting lineup had Stanley, Holmes and Priddy in the fro