Walking away with some BLING!

I thought I'd just update everyone on the results from our Kansas City tournament. Well, it wasn't as bad as I had initially thought. We did play a 5th grade team in the championship game. This team had beaten each of the other 5th grde teams in their pool by 20 or more points, so I was thinking that it could be quite the learning experience for us. It was that to say the least. After playing with this team for the first 20 minutes of the game, we were actually ahead by 2 at half time. We were playing really, really well. Coming out from half time however, we got into a shooting funk and couldn't get anything to fall. We also started to lose a little of our composure as they picked up the pressure on us. With both of these building against us, the opponent, the Pumas, were able to take back the lead and add to it,enough so that we had a hard time chipping away at it, although we tried our best. We ended up losing the game by 11, but the game was far closer than that. Regardless of the outcome, playing against 5th graders, that were much much taller, than us; we held our own. I am so proud of how our boys played and I like to see that they don't give up.
We did however, end up winning a silver medal and receiving a nice looking plaque for taking 2nd place. It's nice to see that we can play with some of the teams from the bigger cities and still be competitive. Christmas break is coming up, so our next tournament will be coming up at the beginning of the new year. Until that time, we'll work on some fundamentals so we can prepare for the second half of the season.

We want to wish all players and families a very Merry Christmas and a happy holiday season!!