JV Tournament

          This weekend, our JV basketball team had a tournament in Central. The tournament had three games in it. Whoever won the most games obviously were the champions. To be honest, I didn't expect much of us. We haven't exactly had a perfect record as a JV team. Nobody anticipated what happened on Saturday. In the first game, we won by a fair amount. Everybody worked together to get the win. We've learned our own roles on the team and play accordingly. In the second game, we dominated. I don't remember the score, but we won by around 20 points, which is a fair amount in a JV game. The third game was the hardest of all.
         In the third game, we started off great. We were up eight to nothing. We held a nice lead up to half time. In the second half, we got tired. We had already played two games that day, one being right before this one. We let them come back because of not getting back on defense fast enough and not matching their intensity. We were down to about one minute left. Alex had just mad one of her free throws, making the score 23-22.  The other team fouled, and it was again our ball. Alex took it out on the side of the courted and passed to me. I hit a long jump shot for two points, putting them just about out of reach. At this point, there was around 30 seconds left, they needed a three to tie it. Somehow, they got a bunch of tries at this because of us going for steals and tipping the ball out of bounds and stuff like that. We all played close defense and held them to their 22 points. It was such a relief to hear that final buzzer and know that we had finished it. The final score was 25-22. We shook hands with the other team, and Coach K brought out our trophy. We took our pictures and all went home with big smiles on our faces. I'd say it's been a pretty good weekend.