Faith and B-Ball!

The suns streams into the old gym framing a lone figure holding a basketball under her arm. Silence....one must concentrate, breath deep, feel the energy from the ones that have gone before.....Nahhh. Let's just play ball! And she did! Those girls are really starting to play as a team! Which warms the cockles of my basketball heart.

This is her first year ever playing and her coaches had never coached before so it is wonderful to see how well they are coming along with their plays and understanding the game. Faith stayed with her girl like they were Siamese twins. She wasn't scared to put up the ball and was a key player on all plays.

Here are few pics of her "doin' her thang!"

Wrestling Feb 6th

Running into the gym. Dogpile and the Flying Alex!

Well on the previous blog entry I was telling you about Levi trying to make weight. Well he did with excellent results. He ended up being .4 under! But what is so amazing about the night was he was flat on his back sick yesterday with a 100.3 temp, body aches, cough and congestion! It did not seem to bother him on the mat that much. The first two periods were scoreless. If fact it was just short of a boxing match, only open hands. This kid was even trying to whip him around by his head gear. But he missed the gear and was pulling his hair! In fact when Levi took his head gear off his hair came with it!

They finally got down to the mat and scored some points. The final score was 4-3, kept control of him until the buzzer rang, that was a long 25 seconds!

His momma and daddy are so proud!

Wrasslin'

We are winding down in the wrestling season or wrasslin'! Levi has had a great second half. He has really come into his own. He had made the paper a couple of time. One time the writer labeled the picture, "Is he flat enough for you, ref?" It did seem like it was a long time to actually "slap the mat."


The first big multiple win via pin night was when we had a quadrangle at a little town called Osakis, just nort of us about 45 minutes. As a team we swept the tournament; on a individual level the boys were doing fantastic! Steve, the girls and I had to come late because Faith had basketball practice so we missed the first match. Levi was pinned by a state ranked kid. So we drove like mad men or women or persons if you really want to go that far, to get to the next match. We burst through the gym doors just as he was taking the mat, shook hands and they were off! Levi dominated the whole 23 seconds of the match! Yes, 23 seconds later the kid was counting ceiling tiles! That victory tasted good. It was a great wave to ride! The last match was 59 second, Levi had him tied up and pinned! We where so excited. The worst thing about the whole night was I forgot my camera!


We then went to Big Lake for a triangular meet with Big Lake, duh, and Pierz. The Big Lake kid ended up pinning Levi in the second period. But Levi took his next kid from Pierz to the mat and pinned him!


Just Tuesday, Feb. 3rd we had a meet at home against Sauk Rapids. We racked up a team win, but had a few heartbreaking matches. Levi's a nail biter until the end. He went all three periods and pulled a reversal and a near-fall out of his onzie (singlet) in the last few seconds of the match to win by decision. Levi hates when I refer to it as a onzie, but for those of you who don't know the wrestling lingo, you knew exactly what I was talking about!

We have a match against Little Falls tonight. I just got off the phone with my little wrestler and he is trying to make weight. He is 1.3 pounds over! (If you are over forty, 1.3 pounds would take three weeks to lose, but he will have it off in an hour! If not he won't wrestle tonight!) He was running and jumping rope when I talked to him.