Results of Basketball Games

We were up bright and early on Saturday morning. We needed to be up at the church by 8:45 am for Christian's first basketball game of the season! We were very excited for him! Last year, he was the youngest boy on the team and could not even dribble the basketball. This year, he has improved so much. He got his hands on the ball a couple of times during the game and was able to dribble for a little bit. He didn't seem as lost as he did last year! Unfortunately, he still wasn't feeling the best and at one point, he asked his coach if he could sit out a quarter because he was coughing. He ended up coming over to us and Matt gave him some albuterol. When he as feeling better, he went back in, but got paired up with a boy on the other team who as about six inches taller than him! This other boy was kind of rough and was pushing Christian around a bit. Again, the coach noticed Christian was in tears and had him sit down the rest of the quarter. I think he did a great job, despite all of this. Next week he will be at 100% and will strive to do even better!

Courtney, on the other hand, came out feisty as ever for her game!! She got to start and was thrilled. She is one of the shorter girls on her team, so like Matt said, "Whenever the ball was on the floor, Courtney was likely to get to it first." And she did! She was constantly on the floor of the gym fighting for the basketball! Sometimes she would be on the floor and then she would stand up and go for a shot! Wow! She would often just grab the basketball from an opponent and not let go; she would force a jump ball. She tried to shoot many times, but only made one or two.

During the last two minutes, she tried to shoot and the ref called a foul. During the whole game, the ref would call a foul and just take the ball out. Nobody would get free throws, but during this foul, I heard the ref say, "Give the red team two points." Courtney was the red team. In the end, Courtney's' team won 16-14. They only won because of those two points from the foul! At the end of the game, I heard another mom say that during the last two minutes of play, they are just giving points in a foul instead of taking the ball out. Great job Courtney by forcing that foul!

Courtney ended up  playing five of the six quarters on Saturday because they were missing some teammates. She was completely red and blotchy when she was done! Even though she was completely exhausted, she loved every minute of it!