Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Past Weekend - Big Weekend

This past weekend was a big weekend for both the boys and girls teams. We both had two games, one on Saturday night and one on Sunday.

For the girls team they looked to continue their streak, from being on a roll the last couple of games. After a poor start to the year they really have been playing quite well, and really seem to be gelling as a team. I think I might have said the same thing last week about the girls team, but they do look a lot better than they did at the beginning of the year and I enjoy watching them play. This month they are 5-1, with the one loss coming in overtime at the hands of a buzzer beating shot. So after a 1-5 start they are now 4th in the standings and if the season were to end today they would be in finals.

This weekend they played Ballarat and Sandringham.

Saturday night the girls team won 84 to 76. Katy played 14 minutes, went 2-6 from the field for 6 points and grabbed 2 boards. Sunday the girls won 74-64. Katy played 18 minutes, went 3-8 from the field for 7 points and grabbed 4 boards.

Even though there are not stat categories for some of the things Katy does she really helps her team out. She sets good screens and makes it easy for the other girls to get open shots. And even though she only ended with 4 boards I think she had her hand about three times that many. On many of the rebounds, even though she might not get it, she is able to get a hand on it and tap it to a teammate or keep it from going to the other team. She plays hard the whole time she is out there and you can really tell she is working hard. Sunday after the game her coach even came up to her and told her that she did very well and worked very hard. Nice to hear that from a coach.

This past weekend one of the starters on her team sprained her ankle once, sat out for a little bit, then went back in. Well she ended up doing her ankle again, only the second time she said she heard something pop. Last night at training she was on crutches and could barely put any pressure on it, so I don't think she will be playing on the weekend. It will be interesting to see how the rotations go and how Katy fits in. I think she will be getting a bit more playing time.



For our team it was a must-win weekend. If we wanted to keep our final chances alive we needed to win. Saturday we played Dandenong and Sunday we played Sandringham. Saturday we found ourselves up by quite a bit early, but then they came storming back. The forth quarter ended up being pretty close, but we were able to hit our free-throws (something that has been hurting us all year) and ended up winning the game 109-100.

Sundays game was also another tight one for us. This game was close pretty much the whole game. We got to an early lead but we weren't able to keep it for very long and we went back and forth for a majority of the game. I decided to get into foul trouble (well, the refs decided it for me) so I got to watch a lot of the second and third quarters from the sidelines. It was tough watching but the guys played well and picked it up when it looked like they were going to pull ahead. Again this game came down to free throws in the end for us and our team did a good job of hitting them when we needed to. In the end it was very close but we edged them out 105-102.

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