Sitting in a hotel room...

And for the third time today, we sat in horrified and stunned silence, watching the other team scream, jump around and wildly celebrate their victory. The semi-finals at the East Coast Homeschool Basketball Championship and we lost. And lost. And lost again.

Middleschool and JV had to play at exactly the same time (for the second time in the tournament) and Middleschool lost a close game just 2 minutes before JV lost an even closer game. They played well, and it was SO close both the games, but the other teams just pulled it out.

Then for Varsity, we played the Forsyth Hawks. The same team we just beat two weeks ago for the State Championship. They intercepted at least a dozen of our passes, got most of the rebounds and played a really awesome game. One of our guys was injured pretty bad (got kicked in the knee and then fell on the same knee). We hung on, and were down 3, had the ball, tried and missed a 3, got the rebound and then they intercepted another pass. They went down, made a lay-up and buzzer.

Our Varsity was the defending East Coast Champions, and I really think they should have had the title again. Of course, I would, being a loyal fan. But we beat them for the State tournament! We CAN beat them! Our guys were a little upset about the seeding. Apparently it was done by how many points you won your qualifying games by, so we got seeded 3rd, instead of 1st. If we'd been first seed we would have had an easy game and made it to the Championship.

It's a real bummer. Our whole teams/fans group is just moping around now. It could have been a great week. It's surprising what a few sad basketball games can do.

~Lizzie