CGS in a close one.

Today, Saturday, started off at 8am with a scratch match at the College of Siskiyous Basketball Stadium. The match pitted several ex students and even the Head Basketball Coach, Tom Powers, who had coached Stephen Blackley in the early 80's. Stephen and our other coach Andrew went on one team, while I went on the other team with Tom Powers. Tom's team didn't fire early and lost the first three games to 15 against Stephen and Andrew's team. Then we started to turn it on and fought our way back to 3 games all. The last game was to 7 points and a late steal from the Director of Sport with the subsequent lay up gave Tom's team the overall victory, 4 games to 3.

Then it was the student's turn with the SV (Senior Varsity) team playing Durham High School for 7th place. Unfortunately the boys were tired from the dance the night before and two games on the previous two days and went down 57 to 44. They played very well again with the stand out player of the tournament being Kaighin Johnson.

Then we travelled to Etna again and the JV (Junior Varsity) team played Weed high school for 3rd place. Yes that's right Weed High School. The even wear 'I Love Weed' t-shirts. Anyway, back to the game and the boys started off very well. They had a 10 point lead right up until 3 quarter time and then Weed fought back to level the scores with only minutes remaining. Then CGS put up couple of foul shots to take back the lead by one point with only seconds on the clock. Weed had the ball put coughed it up and CGS held on to the ball for a stunning 1 point victory and 3rd place in the JV tournament at Etna. Player of the tournament was Jesse Zhao who displayed some exceptional skills throughout the tournament.

Then we came back and dropped the students off to have one last night with their billet families. The adults then went to the Black Bear Diner for a huge steak and fries meal. An early night tonight followed by a five hour bus trip awaits the group. What also awaits is the NCAA championship game between Cal Berkley and Southern Mississippi at Berkley tomorrow afternoon.