Basketball - Week 3

Well, another week down, and another 2 losses. We played well this past weekend, but we came up on the short end of both games.

In the first game against Albia (White) I thought we really let some opportunities slip away. We match up well with this team, and I think on any given game, either team could win. We stayed right with them, and neither team had a lead bigger than 3 points. The halftime score had us trailing 12 - 10. We were a little shorthanded in that game with one boy that was sick, and another that got sick at the game. In the end, we weren't able to pull it out, and fell 20-17.

Our second game was against Albia (Blue). This is a pretty good team, that hasn't lost in league play yet. We really played hard against them. It was back and forth most of the the first quarter and a half. At that point, Jalen took a weird bouncing ball to the nose and had to exit the court . Midway through the second quarter, I had to go attend to Jalen since his nose bleed was not stopping. We were tied at half time 14-14 from what I was told. By the time we got Jalen's nose bleed under control, it was well into the 4th quarter and we were down 22-20 at that point. I think we simply ran out of gas. We were basically running the same 5 players all game and I know that had to wear those kids down. Final score 28-20.

This weekend we play our last 2 games of the year. First we play Eddyville-Blakesburg, then we finish up with Centerville. I look forward to the game against Centerville to see how much we have improved since the first week when we played them. Until next week.......