Alyssa gets hot!

Alyssa's team played in the grade 9 tournament at Crescent Heights High School in Medicine Hat this weekend. Since Medicine Hat is over 2 hours away, this became the first overnight basketball tournament for the kids. The grade 9 boys were also in the tournament. We went along with the kids and stayed overnight as well. Everyone stayed at the Travelodge which has a nice aquatic center with a water slide and spray park. Non-basketball highlights of the trip include Austin throwing up on the carpet of the hotel room just after 11 p.m. Rob had, until that point, stayed away from the job of chaperoning the gr. 9's (as "that's the coaches' job"), but when the choice was between laying in bed while I cleaned up puke a few feet away or dealing with the Gr. 9s who were making noise in the hallways above us, wouldn't you know it, he got out of bed and got the Gr. 9s to go to their rooms.

It was a challenging trip, dealing with three boys who don't love watching basketball--one of whom was sick. But, we managed. Thankfully, one girl on Alyssa's team has grandparents in Medicine Hat and they invited everyone over for a couple of hours in the afternoon on Saturday. We took advantage of the opportunity to get Mark out of his chair for a while. Mark was actually really good the whole trip. Thank you Mark!

Alyssa's team won their first two games, and faced Cardston in the final. They lost 45-30 to Cardston. Alyssa got in foul trouble and had to sit a lot of the 2nd and 4th quarters. The above video is from a run at the end of the third when Alyssa got hot and made several shots in a row, to reduce the hole the team was in. Rob edited out the play at the other end of the court, but these are consecutive offensive plays. We put it to some classic basketball music, just for fun. Alyssa is #6.