ISV Boys and Girls Ready for Semi-Final Matches

The United States Virgin Islands (ISV) junior boys and girls teams both made it to the semi-finals of the Caribbean Zonal Volleyball Association’s U19 Volleyball Championships scheduled for Friday, held in Spanish Town, Jamaica.

The boys’ game is first with first serve scheduled to take place at 1:00 p.m. AST at the GC Foster College Authorium. ISV boys finished second in their pool and had to get past a young and talented Cayman Islands team in a quarterfinal match. Trinidad & Tobago (TTO) won their pool and has not played a match since Monday. Michael Burkett is the youngest player on TTO’s team, however you would not think so by his play. Burkett is an explosive hitter with a powerful jump serve. Logan Rogers and Jared Brown have been carrying much of the offensive load for ISV. However, with all this offensive talent that will be on display in this semi-final match-up, the U.S. Virgin Islands Head Coach Isaac Raphael ended a team meeting with this reminder, “Good offense wins games, but good defense wins championships.”