"Pressure is playing a five-dollar Nassau with two-dollars in your pocket." - Lee Trevino
Pressure degrades performance. "Handling pressure" means that in the moment, your performance dropped off less than your opponent's.
MVB handles it.
2003. Andover's Dunn Gymnasium. AC came in 22-0 without losing a set. Melrose had never won anything. Melrose left with a stunning 3-0 upset and its first Sectional Title.
2009. Greeted at Barnstable in 2008 with the musical strains of "M-I-C-K-E-Y-M-O-U-S-E," Melrose remembered. At the friendlier confines of the Melrose Veterans Memorial Middle School, Hannah Brickley and Company sent the Red Raiders home empty-handed, 3-0.
2012. "Too vanilla," some said. Melrose captures the State Championship, capping off a 26-1 season.
2021. Billerica. Headed for a crushing defeat in the fifth set, Melrose turns around a 10-3 deficit to win 16-14 with a 13-4 closing run. The enduring lessons included 1) never give up and 2) you have to win points against quality opponents, not rely on them surrendering points.
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