Another Season at an End

Basketball ended last night with a loss in the bi-district game, 38-65. The team played hard, as usual. And they looked like a basketball team in spite of their youth and their height disadvantage with the team we played.

Aaron played point guard most of the game and almost his only stats were in the turnover category, but that is to be expected I guess when playing a good team. He spent a lot of time on the floor and actually had charging called against him--twice. Usually he's the one being charged. But he did manage to get inside for a rebound and had 2 assists.

Nathan has improved so much this season. He played well, too, scoring 6 points (2nd highest), grabbing 4 rebounds, an assist and a steal.

It was a bittersweet loss, but there are so many good things to come with this young team. We will just miss watching Aaron have a part in it, too.

4th Place

We finished in 4th place in our district, which earned us a playoff spot. The first in 5 years! But our final district game didn't go so well. We lost 43-56. The boys played hard, though. And the team is still young. It bodes well for the future.

Aaron ended the game with 11 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and a steal while Nathan had 1 of each of those things.

It's off to bi-district now, but being the 4th place team we get the privilege of meeting up with a 1st place team. It won't be pretty. It will end the season. But sometimes it's better to know that going in!

Back to Back Losses

Because of game reschedules, we ended up playing the same team on back to back nights--and coming out on the losing end both times.

Friday night we lost 52-57. The boys played hard and were down by a lot more earlier in the game. They fought until the end. Aaron ended that game with 11 points, Nathan with 2.

Saturday night was much the same except we were short a player (out sick) and got in major foul trouble early. Nathan had his statistically best game of the year. He led the scoring with 8, assists with 3 and steals with 2. He also had 2 rebounds. Aaron did great as usual, too. He came in right behind his brother with 7 points, 2 assists, 1 steal and 2 rebounds.

It's looking like we'll make the first round of the playoffs, but I don't see us going any further. I'd love to be wrong, but I'm too realistic to think otherwise. As the season ends this week, it will be hard to say good-bye to watching Aaron play basketball.

Trounced

After almost a week off school due to snow and ice, we finally resumed our season last night--and we got trounced, 51-76.

Aaron did manage to score 14 points, pull down 4 rebounds, 4 assists, and 4 steals. Nathan scored 6 points and had a rebound and a steal.

We had to cancel one of our games rescheduled from a snow day due to ice, but it looks like the weather will stay clear through next week, so we should be able to finish our season, which hopefully includes at least one playoff game!basket