Cornhusker State Games -- Day 2

We returned to play the Nebraska All-Stars in the championship format at 11 a.m. this morning. We switched to a 1-2-2 defense it and slowed them down a bit and made them work a little harder than yesterday. We just couldn't get anything to fall, which of course, frustrated us. We lost 49-2.

Joey had the only basket.
Grant led the team with four rebounds.

Then the final game. Oh my!
We played the Monarchs. The team that we played in the first game of the tournament. Of course when they showed up they had many new players that didn't play the first time. They didn't write any names down on their sheet, just numbers, so there was no way to check names or ages on their roster. Then each team is to provide a person for the score table and they didn't do it so Lori pointed it out to an official. The reason for having it is two fold. So the person keeps the score right and the foul right for the teams. Well the official just said oh well and made another person from our team help. It's listed as an automatic FORFEIT on the sheet but the official wouldn't do anything about it. Then the game started and it was very physical with the new fresh players that had about our six that had already played four games in two days. They actually had one player that just showed up for the game today. I can't believe that someone would pay $32 to play one game but to each his own (I'm sure that isn't what really happened). anyway there were about six minutes left in the half when our point guard, Nate, went down with a shoulder injury leaving us with five players. Then we battled to halftime even though Austin took a hard shot. As we started the second half, Austin's hand wasn't getting any better so he had to stop leaving us with just four players so WE had to FORFEIT. I hated to do it but it was our only option and the officials acted surprised.

Joey, Jack and Bret each had a basket in the final game. Bret led the team with four rebounds.

Then we got into kind of a brew-ha-ha after the game when we pointed out the many rules that they had broken in the tournament and CSG officials did nothing out. It was a sad way for it to all end. I had truly hoped for a better experience.

I appreciate all of the hard playing that all of the boys did. Nate, Bret, Austin, Jack, Grant and Joey should be proud of themselves and I appreciate the parents' support as well.

Go Sharks!

Cornhusker State Games -- Day 1

It was the first day of the Cornhusker State Games and I guess you could call it a learning experience. Even though it is the kind that most of us don't like.

The first game was supposed to start at 9 a.m. and the rules say GAME TIME IS FORFEIT TIME. And yes it says it in CAPS. Well all of our team was there by 8:45 and ready to go at 9. The problem is the other team wasn't. So we waited and waited and waited. Of course the officials don't know the rules so I had to share it with them. The other coaches didn't seem in any kind of a hurry whatsoever. I think they only had four players and they were trying to hid it. Anyway, the official made us decide if we were going to take the forfeit win or play the game. I wanted to play a pickup game and get the forfeit but they said they wouldn't do that. So I approached the team and asked and then said, we came here to play, right? So we played. We played decent but lost 30-11

Bret led the team with nine points and Joey had the other two.
Austin led the team with eight rebounds.

Then we came back against the Nebraska All-Stars. They appeared to be a group of players from some YMCA league. They were a good group and played the game right. Ran their offense through at the end when they had a big lead and we lost 49-6.

Joey led the team with four points while Bret had the other two.
Jack led the team with two rebounds.

Then we came back later on in the day and played Norfolk. They were a very cocky bunch and even when they were up probably 50-8 or something like that their big guys decided to try and shoot three pointers. They continued to fast break some and try to steal the ball in the backcourt and the coach didn't really back them off. Oh well to each his own. We lost 71-14. I was just glad that the Nebraska All-Stars beat them earlier in the day.

Austin led the team with six points. Nate added four, Joey and Jack each had two.
Austin led the team with five rebounds.

We return to action Sunday at 11 a.m. against I'm guessing the Nebraska All-Stars in the championship format and then should have a shot at the first team again.

Cornhusker State Games

We will be playing with six players in the Cornhusker State Games this weekend at Lincoln Southeast. Taking the court will be Bret, Jack, Austin, Joey, Grant and Nate.

The schedule is:

First game at 9 on SE 3.
Second game 2:15 SE 2.
Third game 6:30 SE 3.

Come cheer us on!