Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Playing for State

This year, as well as the two years before that, Trevor has been really busy coaching girls basketball. The first year he just volunteered, but now he is the JV girls basketball coach and assists on Varsity.

Last year the girls made all the way to the state championship game, but ended up losing. It was sad to say the least, but there is always next year, right? With only losing one starter from the whole team, we knew it was definitely possible, but it would be a hard road. The girls were going to be on the metro side of the bracket, and that always makes it difficult.

We lucked out a little, in that two of the teams we were concerned with got beat out in their region tournament. There was still concern with having to play Valley Christian. Wouldn't you know thats exactly who it came down to. We were going to have to play them to get to the championship game.

So last Saturday was the big game. Valley Christian was 32 and 0 (I think). We came out and didn't play a very good first half, but by the second half we finally turned it on. Needless to say we ended up being tied with only 7 seconds left in the game, but one with a buzzer beater shot at nearly half court. From all accounts it was pretty amazing.

My husband called to tell me the news seconds after, and from the sound of his voice I thought that HE had made the winning shot. I thought HE was going to be playing for a state championship.

His voice sounded that excited, but the video that was shot was even better. Our school website posts game highlights, and it is hilarious! If anyone would like to check it out, it's well worth the 4 minutes of your time.

This is the website you need to put into your search engine:

http://www.acsbc.net/videos/SJHS/

Then click basketball on the left hand side of the page, once that shows all the games click on the very last video.

My husband is in a red shirt and he's the one jumping all over the place. It is so funny. The girls have definitely been giving him crap about it. But who can blame him?

We play for a state title this Thursday at 10:oo am.

8 comments:

Bailey said...

thats awesome. i wish i was danica!!

Nicole said...

That is so funny 'cause I was wondering who that was in the video going crazy:) It's so awesome though!

The Lovell's said...

That's pretty great!!! Who says there's no need to practice those shots...there's the proof...makes me wish we lived closer!

Lisa said...

I LOVE GAMES LIKE THAT!!!! So fun!! Congrats Coach!!

Michelle Ashton said...

That was such a great game. I was shaking so bad at the end of the game that I could hardly even text Quinn to tell him! :)

Mary Anne said...

that was hilarious taytum! i love games like that though...and i would have done the same exact thing probably. can't blame him! so how did state go???

p.s. brody is getting so so big and doing so many things! being a mom is the best!

The Helvig Familiy said...

How cute is your little boy! Congrats!

Class and Sass said...

Its been too long! Brody is getting so big! What a cutie!! How are you guys doin??