Men's and Women's teams vs. Dandenong
7 in row - The girls team is on a tear and are doing very well. They won their game again this past weekend. This weekend they also had a couple of girls missing. Two people were gone this weekend-two sisters and so it was probably a little confidence booster for the girls since they won with only 8. Again I only got to see the first half of Katy's game but like usual she played very hard. She didn't get as much time as I thought she should have, especially with how hard she works-but then again I might be a little biased, who knows :)
One of the girls on Katy's team, the American "import" on their team-Amy, earned SEABL player of the month honors for the month of May. Since Crazy Johns, a mobile phone company out here, is the sponsor of the league she got anew phone from them and I think either a plan or some minutes if it was pre-paid. Katy said it was kind of funny that she got the phone when she did. I guess the week before she had lost her phone and on Friday decided to go get a replacement. So, Friday she went and bought a new one (if you are not on a plan out here, which she probably wouldn't be as she is only here for a couple more months and most plans are for a year or more, the phones I think are pretty expensive). When she was honored before the game and given her new phone after the national anthem all the girls had a pretty good laugh.
For us this weekend it was a good game and a good win. Like I mentioned in my last post about passing the ball around and getting everyone involved, we did that very well this weekend. A lot of times we had a tendency to make one pass and then get shot up. Well when you do that it is not all that hard for the other team to play defence against you. We would sometimes get into that rut and then have problems because of it. Well this weekend it was a different story, we worked the ball around well, got it through everyone's hands and because of it played well on the defensive end as well. We ended up winning by about 40. Hopefully this will be a confidence booster for us and we will be able to use it do well next weekend. We just have to make sure that we don't have the mind set that since we won by 40 this past weekend that it is just going to come to us this weekend. This coming weekend we play 2 games. Saturday we play against Canberra and although we beat them the first time they have a guy or two more than they had last time. Then on Sunday we play Frankston who was undefeated until this past weekend. so it will be a big weekend for us.
The win on the weekend was big for us as we had played the team who was just below us in the standings. They were two games behind us. It was a very big win because we are now 3 games ahead of them instead of only one. If we can tie a few win together and beat some of the teams that are ahead of us we could set ourselves up for to have a home game or to at least ensure ourselves a spot.
The way the finals works here is:
The top 4 teams from each conference make it. Since of one the teams in our conference, AIS (Australia Institute of Sport), has commitments where there guys (younger guys-under 18s or 21s or something like that) have to head off to Europe or some other country to play at the end of August, they are not counted in the 4. They are in our conference and in the top four, but since they don't count we will actually get to take the top 5 from our conference. Then the 4th place team plays at the 3rd place team's gym. Then the winner of that game plays at the 2nd place team's gym. The the winner of that game plays at the 4th place team stadium.
Its a little different than back home where the 4th place team would play the 1st place team. And the 3rd place team would play against the 2nd place team. Then the two teams would play off.
A little different but it works pretty well, especially if you are the 1st place team and get two byes.
Link to Women's story:http://www.kilsythbasketball.com.au/index.php?id=21&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=390&tx_ttnews[backPid]=210&cHash=e3ca302790
Link to Men's story:http://www.kilsythbasketball.com.au/index.php?id=21&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=389&tx_ttnews[backPid]=210&cHash=c6439f30a1
Well that's all for now-check back soon for updates.
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