01/05/2026
The Coyotes returned from Bellatrix with a 3–1 win, which sounds comfortable on paper and absolutely wasn’t in reality.
It was one of those games where momentum kept changing hands just often enough to keep everyone slightly on edge. Bellatrix showed up ready to make us work for it, and to their credit, they did. Long rallies, scrappy points, and the kind of sets where no one really knows how the ball is still in play—but it is, and now everyone’s sprinting.
We took the first, dropped the second, and then had to properly dig in to close it out. Not our cleanest performance, but definitely one of our grittier ones. The kind where you win because you refuse to quietly go away.
Special mention to Freya, who after a series of increasingly enthusiastic defensive efforts, is now reportedly browsing libero jerseys and considering a positional rebrand. We’ll be having words.
With second place already secured, it would’ve been easy to ease off. Instead, we did what we’ve done all season—kept showing up, kept figuring it out, and occasionally made things more dramatic than necessary for the sake of character development.
Another sports hall ticked off, another win in the bag, and a season wrapped up the Coyotes way: not always straightforward, but always together.
Bellatrix, thanks for the battle. Same again sometime.
