Holding on for 3rd

And Middleschool and JV lost their games for 3rd place also. We left to come home after the JV game; Daddy decided that we wouldn't stay for the Varsity game, much to Sarah's dismay. (I was ready to come home, except I would have liked to have seen the game too. I just didn't want to hang out in VA for another 4 hours waiting and then have to drive home in the middle of the night.)

So SOME one was supposed to call us if Varsity won the game for 3rd place last night (*cough, cough*) but didn't, so we assumed that they lost too. (It's okay, someone. We forgive you and the other someone who probably won't read this.) But then Daddy found on the internet this morning that we won! I wish the game had been earlier in the day so we could have watched it.

I'm so glad that they got 3rd at least. We needed SOMETHING. Everyone was so disappointed, winning the 3rd place trophy for Varsity is comforting.

~Lizzie

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

State Tournament pics

Lizzie's already told y'all all about what happened, so I'm just gonna add some pictures of it.

The JV game.

#2 in the state!

Anna & Lizzie

Varsity starting five

tip off

#1 in the state!!

haha

The All-Tournament Team

Adam, Devin, Nick & Anna with the trophy

Anna, Kara & the trophy

Most of the girls and the trophy. :)

So, there y'all go. Congrats, Hawks!!!!!!!

YEAH!!!!!!

Our Varsity boys won the NCHE State Basketball tournament!! And our JV boys got 2nd!! We drove up to Greensboro last night to watch them play. The games were sooooo tense.

JV should have won... the game was really close until the end, when the refs made 3 really bad calls, and the other team made their free throws. The guys were so disappointed, but 2nd is good!! They just knew that they deserved to win... that makes it so much worse. If it had been a lucky break that they made 2nd, then they would have been happy. That was pretty frustrating.

Our Varsity opponent apparently expected to beat us... Before the game, Sarah overheard two of the moms from the other team talking about how easy the game was going to be. It was pretty close for most of the game. We were down by about 10 at one point, and the other team was down by about 20 at another point, but at the end we went into TWO overtimes. At the end of the 4th quarter we were up, and then the other team got the ball, went down and made a shot RIGHT before the buzzer. But at the end of the second overtime, we beat them by 4 points.

I considered trying to take pictures for about one millisecond, but dismissed that idea because in my anxiety, I probably would have destroyed my camera... if I didn't crush it with my bare hands, I would have dropped it, slung it onto the court or at the very least cracked someone in the head with it. Anyway, Sarah took pictures, and she's going to put them on here once she's finished putting them on Facebook...

And of course, we went out to eat afterward to celebrate. We were going to go to Chili's, but they couldn't seat us all together, so we went across the street to Ham's.




They wrote "Hawks" on a napkin for a banner... isn't it great??

The little kids... except for Anna. Don't worry, Anna, we know you were just supervising.





We took up a whole section... this is almost all of the "kids."

A picture of some of the G's... but, Mr. G, where did you go? He *was* in the picture... Oh well. A good picture of the G girls.

Looking at pictures on a camera.

We left the restaurant at about 1 am to drive all the way home... we got home at 2:30 am.

Congratulations guys, you did it!!! w00t!!

~Lizzie