Friday, December 17, 2010

Another Tournament Starts

After a well deserved sleep in the boys were keen to play again after a couple of days off the courts. We left the hotel and made our way to St Mary's University - the home of several Australian basketball players (most notably Patrick Mills in the past) - and watched then team practice. We also improved their December sales in the gift shop as well. Then a short drive to Almeda High School for the Junior Varsity team to play. Almeda thought the game was to start at 5.30pm but we had 4pm so we still played but without referees. It was the toughest game of the tour for the JV boys as it was like street ball in what was a very run down gymnasium. We lost the game by roughly 20 points but the boys never backed down which was great to see. Then we went to Piedmont High School for the SV tournament. The boys started off well and only trailed by 12 points at half time. That all changed in the second half and things started to go the wrong way - on the scoreboard - and we ended up losing by 35 points, 36 to 71. They played very well but were just out-muscled. Tomorrow we have two more games and are looking for a couple of wins.

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