11-13-13
I’m on a bus again! It’s the best possible kind of bus I/we could be on, though. We are going to state! Our team was selected by the selection committee to be invited to this year’s state tournament.
We narrowly made it in as the 12th seed, but we’re in, and that means we can win it all.
Tomorrow at 8:00 A.M. we begin our adventure with pool play against Centennial and Espanola Valley. We play two games to 25 points against both teams with caps at 27. All four games will start with a score of 4-4. Not sure why. I just asked Anna, and she said it has to do with pool play and playing only a certain number of “official” matches.
I am so proud of this team. Our biggest win, in my opinion, came during...
the district tournament against Farmington, and it was a freaky deal.
When we lost to them the second time during the regular season at their place we pushed it to five games, and then we were unjustly stalled by a major point controversy. We grabbed the momentum at 10 to 8 where they were forced to call a time-out. We were rolling. We felt we had them right where we wanted ‘em, but after the time-out our tenth point was mysteriously taken away, a mistake that both officials admitted and actually wrote apology letters about later. We were tied 9-9 after that because of a missed serve on our part, but the scoring mistake was a sucker punch that we could not recover from. We lost 15-11, and that match was crucial for our standings and rankings.
After it was over, I told Belinda and Danielle that it was meant to be, and that things would work out just the way we wanted. I was right; they did. We ended up facing them at their place again during the district tournament, and it was if we were given this gift to prove we could beat them given a second opportunity.
After losing the first two games 24-26, we forced a fifth game again by getting and keeping the momentum through games three and four. Those games were very close, though, and it was super close in the fifth game again.
We were back on the same side where it all happened before. We traded points right up to 8-8 where we pulled ahead by two points again. They called another time-out, and I just knew we would win at that point. I had a major feeling of a surreal deja vu (sp?). We ended up winning 15-11, and that was the match that helped us, in my opinion, to be riding on this bus right now.
I’m on a bus again! It’s the best possible kind of bus I/we could be on, though. We are going to state! Our team was selected by the selection committee to be invited to this year’s state tournament.
We narrowly made it in as the 12th seed, but we’re in, and that means we can win it all.
Tomorrow at 8:00 A.M. we begin our adventure with pool play against Centennial and Espanola Valley. We play two games to 25 points against both teams with caps at 27. All four games will start with a score of 4-4. Not sure why. I just asked Anna, and she said it has to do with pool play and playing only a certain number of “official” matches.
I am so proud of this team. Our biggest win, in my opinion, came during...
the district tournament against Farmington, and it was a freaky deal.
When we lost to them the second time during the regular season at their place we pushed it to five games, and then we were unjustly stalled by a major point controversy. We grabbed the momentum at 10 to 8 where they were forced to call a time-out. We were rolling. We felt we had them right where we wanted ‘em, but after the time-out our tenth point was mysteriously taken away, a mistake that both officials admitted and actually wrote apology letters about later. We were tied 9-9 after that because of a missed serve on our part, but the scoring mistake was a sucker punch that we could not recover from. We lost 15-11, and that match was crucial for our standings and rankings.
After it was over, I told Belinda and Danielle that it was meant to be, and that things would work out just the way we wanted. I was right; they did. We ended up facing them at their place again during the district tournament, and it was if we were given this gift to prove we could beat them given a second opportunity.
After losing the first two games 24-26, we forced a fifth game again by getting and keeping the momentum through games three and four. Those games were very close, though, and it was super close in the fifth game again.
We were back on the same side where it all happened before. We traded points right up to 8-8 where we pulled ahead by two points again. They called another time-out, and I just knew we would win at that point. I had a major feeling of a surreal deja vu (sp?). We ended up winning 15-11, and that was the match that helped us, in my opinion, to be riding on this bus right now.
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