What a week

[blindzebra]

First a howler monkey and a partner siding with the coach and then tonight.

Girls Varsity tournament double header.

First game the defending state champions versus a scrapy well coached team. Both teams lost all their seniors from last year, but the defending champs have more going for them and win 75 to 37. A rout, but both teams played hard, and it was a clean game.

The second game, well....

Two REALLY bad teams, my partner and I have worked a lot of games together and we call a similar game, so we go out expecting to let them play...15 fouls, 5 held balls, and a 6 to 4 score after 5 minutes and we are in full reel them in mode. Double bonus both ways early 2nd quarter and they still won't stop fouling.

All 3 ball-handlers foul out for 1 team, the 2 big girls for the other team foul out. It's 40-39 with 30 seconds left, we get a pull up jumper to make it 41-40. The other team hit's a shot to make it 42-41 with 17 seconds left; a long pass gets stolen and we have a foul, the player hits the 2nd of 2 FTs to make it 43-41 with 10 second left.

A 3 pt shot goes long and a put back to tie the game rolls off at the horn.

If you just saw the scores you'd think the 43-41 game was the GOOD game, but I'll take that 75-37 game EVERY time.