First Goalball Competition
at ISVI

| Congratulations to the ISVI Goalball team members as the Illinois School for the Visually Impaired (ISVI) hosted its first goalball competition in the school's history. | ||
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Wisconsin The Routt Catholic High School girls swim team members and cheerleaders along with various ISVI faculty, volunteered their time to work the contest. Their help was outstanding and extremely appreciated. |
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In the girls' contest, the ISVI started their undefeated streak at home and in the season with a 12-5 victory against the Wisconsin Center for Blind and Visually Impaired (WCBVI). Team Illinois Girls' Goalball presently sports a 1-0 record. |
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In the boys' contest, the ISVI was defeated 13-6 by WCBVI. Team Illinois Boys' Goalball sports a 0-1 record. |
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| Illinois vs.
Missouri On Tuesday, February 21st, the contest between Team Illinois Warriors and the Mules of the Missouri School for the Blind started off quite exciting. Both the Illinois boys and girls teams showed tremendous improvement since the week before against Wisconsin. Unfortunately, the Illinois boys team lost 11-6 in regulation time. The Illinois girls battled to a 5-5 tie followed by a 6-6 tie after the first round of shoot-offs, followed by a 7-6 loss in the golden goal/sudden death tie-breaker. The Illinois exhibition team also lost even though no official scores were kept. |
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Team Illinois next competed in the 2006 NCASB Goalball Championships hosted by the Missouri School for the Blind on Friday and Saturday, March 3 & 4, 2006. |
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| Play Details Team Illinois Goalball returned from a most exciting weekend. Although team members might have returned to ISVI looking a little black and blue, it was attributed to diving repeatedly on the court and from being hit by numerous goalballs. Team Illinois played seven games in one and a half days. The first two games came in pool play (a method used by USABA to seed teams after pool play into a line bracket tournament). In the pool with ISVI were the teams from Missouri and Ohio. Previously, Illinois lost to Missouri following competition held at ISVI with a score of 13-7. Pool Results: Friday at 9:00 p.m. Saturday, at 9:15 a.m. Bracket Tournament (Illinois was seeded 6th out of 9 teams) Saturday, 1:00 p.m. Sat., 2:30 p.m. Game 3 against Missouri: This was the rubber match
as they say in baseball. Needless to say, Missouri was very emotional and
drew on all their reserve strength to try to steal a win. However, Illinois
prevailed 12-10. Mr. Livingston–ISVI's bus driver made an emergency Gatorade and peanut-butter cracker run making his delivery back to the Warriors immediately prior to the game. This was a strategic intervention as the gym was very hot and breaks were very few. Less than five minutes after winning game 4, game 5 started with ISVI versus #2 seed Ohio. For the consolation championship (third place), Illinois was victorious with a winning score of 12-6. Note from Coach Raabe Records: First win in the history of the school. First winning season in the history of ISVI Goalball (5-4). The History of Goalball Basics of Goalball There are two teams of 3 players which alternate rolling and defending. The offensive team rolls the ball in a manner that is either hard or soft, depending upon player style, in an attempt to get the ball past the opposing three players. The defensive team listens for the approach of the ball and attempts to prevent or block the ball from crossing the goal line. The ball is rolled back and forth with the offensive and defensive team alternating until time expires for the half. The game is played in two five or seven minute periods and the team with the most points wins. The game is played with a ball weighing 1.25kg
with bells inside. The object is to roll the ball over the opponent's goal
line using a bowling action.
When not attacking, the three players defend the goal by lunging in front of the goal to block the ball. There are women's and men's teams with no variations in equipment or rules.
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