The deacons in our stake had their basketball tournament today. The word tournament implies that you have had a season beforehand, and that this the ending to crown an overall champ. Not so fast! Our deacons have not played 1 game prior to today. In fact, they haven't even practiced. So they got together at 11am to warm up a bit, and maybe throw together a play or two. The tournament started at 1pm, and they played 20 minute games, double elimination. Colton did a great job rebounding, and blocking shots. It helps when you tower over the other deacons! His team had a couple really good players, and they were beating most teams easily. The boys were really good about trying to help everyone on their team make a shot. It's nice to see good that their leaders are emphasizing good sportsmanship and that the boys are demonstrating it. I was very proud. Anyway, after 4 games, they finally lost. Then had 2 more games, which they won, and they came back to play for the championship! By now it was 5pm, and all of the boys were hamburger. They could hardly get up and down the court! They lost to the same team that beat them the first time, but they took second place.
Poor Colton was so exhausted when he got home that he ate and was in bed by 7:30pm. They played basketball for 7 hours straight today!
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Sounds like he takes after you Amy :)
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