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!