Australia's young volleyball team showed plenty of fight in overcoming India 3-2 to finish ninth at the Asian women's Championships.
The Volleyroos' 25-18 16-26 22-25 25-17 15-13 victory gave Mark Barnard's injury-hit team five wins, against two losses, at the championships.
The team also came ninth two years ago, but experienced campaigner Beth Carey believes the current team could develop into something special.
"What's great about having a young and slightly inexperienced team is we can shape it for the future," said Carey.
"Having a fearless mindset is very beneficial, we'll keep working on that, and in the future we could be unstoppable and fearless.
"Coming into the first scratch match it felt like a unit, and we've grown from there.
"And once our skill level grows we could become unstoppable."
Australia started strongly against India, comfortably taking the opening set.
But then a big change came over the game, with the Volleyroos making numerous errors.
After losing the second set, Australia lost nine points straight in the third set to trail 14-4, and then 20-13 before fighting back to lose the set 23-25.
"We started really strong, I thought we might beat them in three," Carey said.
"But then I think we got a little bit too comfortable. We should have taken our time, slowed things down.
"I was watching from the sidelines, it looked very tense but very flat. There wasn't the Australian spirit, getting excited for a point or getting aggressive to win a point back.
"But even when we were down 14-4 I still had a thought we could come back from that and win the set."
Carey said the Australians never believed they were out of the match.
"I've been in plenty of teams where when it gets to 20 points, they give up. I love this team, you might be down 14-20 and we keep fighting," she said.
"We've been seen as Australian underdogs for a very long time. What I love about this team is we don't care where we are in the rankings, we just go out fearless and play our game with the Australian spirit."
The Australians will now prepare for the World Grand Prix, with Australia set to host their division final in Canberra in July.
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