Vs. Toledo

We played Toledo again, this time in our old gym.  There was a wrestling meet going on in the new one.  During the JV game, I went to Willmarth’s class room to check my email.  I received a message from my secret Santa and one from Amber and Rebecca.  The one from Amber and Rebecca was a lesbian card, a practical joke because we think the Winlock lady coach is a lesbian.  My secret Santa told me to have a great game and to play well.  Willmarth told us that Toledo’s coach, Mike Croy graduated from Rainier back in the 80’s.  We got his senior yearbook photo and put it in the program and all over the gym walls. 

During this game we worked on breaker 3.  Three guards and a post bring up the ball against Toledo’s press.  Work the ball and use all of our time.  We tried fronting the posts to practice it since it was a non-league game.  We needed a lot of help inside.  Me, Amber and Kellie guarded Beth; Kellie was not prepared to guard her.  Beth racked up her points against us.  This time she only had 25, still under her average.  If we weren’t pressed, we were to use up all of our 30 seconds.  No help to whoever was on Beth, deny her the ball if possible, block out, don’t panic and be patient on offense.  

Rebecca got to play for a few minutes.  I got elbowed in the eye going for a ball out of bounds.  I also sat on Lisa Quick’s head going for a loose ball.  At half time we were so close to Toledo’s locker room and we could hear Croy yelling at them for not listening to him.  It was really loud.  Second half they killed us.  The score was 80-46.  I was in the Nisqually Valley Newspaper for the week of December 7, 2001.

Vs. Winlock

Winlock was our first home game of the year.  I didn’t start once again but I got to play a lot.  This game we had to block out, it was a must because we were shorter than they were.  Every single player was taller than we were.  We had to let the guards shoot because they were not very accurate.  When the posts had the ball, we had to help in the key as much as we could. 

Before half time, Alicia hurt her knee and I got to play in her spot.  Once she did that, she didn’t play as much the rest of the season.  We didn’t do much in the second half.  They racked up 18 points to our 3 in the third quarter.  We missed too many lay-ins, 17 of them to be exact.  32 points worth, missed.  Coming back was too far of a reach away.  We let their not-so-good player score 14 points.  Their coach was the idiot who said basketball is not a contact sport.  The final score was 50-41.