Winter Basketball

Savannah and Owen played winter basketball.  Savannah was on team Fever with 7th and 8th grade girls.  They only had one 8th grader though.  The team had a rough season, winning 2 of 10 games.  One of the losses was only by 1 point though.  For that game, Savannah's teammate got fouled on a 3-point shot with a few seconds left.  Instead of getting to shoot three free throws, they called the foul "on the floor" and only got possession of the ball.  They lost in the first game of the single elimination play-off game by one point as well. They were down 13-19 at half time and came back to be up by 1 point with 40 seconds left.  The other team was able to score another basket to win it in the last 20 seconds.  This was the same team they lost to by 1 point in the regular season (the second time they played each other).  The first time they played, they lost by 25 points, so they made a huge improvement throughout the season.  Savannah didn't shoot the ball that much but made a couple of baskets during the season.  Her main strengths were setting screens and rebounding.  It wasn't the season she hoped for, but she did have fun with her teammates and coaches.  Her coach said she showed the most growth, was coachable, determined, and showed grit and aggressiveness.    

Owen played on the JV team this year as a bench player. Before making the team, the coach personally called him. He said that Owen could be on the team but would get little to no playing time. They wanted him on the team to be a role model for his good attitude and work ethic. Owen was okay with that role and happy to be on the team.  He also took that chat as a challenge to earn playing time.  He did average about 4-5 minutes per game.  A couple of the games, he got 10-11 minutes.  He got to be a starter for one game with the other bench players.  His most memorable game, he played 11.5 minutes and scored a season high 11 points (three 3-pointers and another bucket).  In three other games he scored two 3-pointers in each game.  He scored a couple other buckets and a couple of free throws throughout the season.  He scored 37 total season points.  His team did pretty well.  Owen missed about 4 games, so I'm not sure on the record, but I think they had about 11 of 15 wins for league play.  For non-league games, they had about 6 of 11 wins, so the team had a total of about 16 wins for 26 games.  Owen's coach said he was a coach's favorite, always worked hard, never complained, knew his role and was going to go really hard.