March Madness started even earlier this year for the Pierce family with Xander's team taking the 3rd seed in his end of season basketball tourney. His team, the Blue Team (yes, quite original), had only lost 2 games all season so were feeling pretty good about facing the 6th seed in the first game. Unfortunately the 6th seeded team decided to show up and play, giving our guys a tough time.
Thank goodness our team was able to pull out the win and went on to play Game 2 against one of the teams that had beat us in the regular season. I was so nervous for Xander's team; if they were able to win this game they would be in the championship game. But the orange team had not only beat us before, they had beat us pretty soundly. How would we do against them this time?
But once again our guys played tough, were so aggressive, and ended up beating the orange team 26-2! What a great game!
On to the championship game! The league put on quite a show for the big game. Each of the boys was announced before the game started which the boys thought was pretty cool. Xander did the jump ball and the game began. The black team had beat us in the regular season because they have the league's best player. He's tall so he grabs all the rebounds, he's aggressive so he gets lots of steals, and he's an amazng player so he gets lots of fast breaks and points. In the previous game we had absolutely no answer for this guy. But this game we did! Our boys just flat out played their best, got back on defense to keep the other team from getting any fast breaks, and were very aggressive.
Xander had one of his best games of the season and even got to shoot a few free throws.
Our Blue Team did it, winning the championship game! We were so excited for the boys and so proud of Xander for the great season he had.
We are the champions! Dominic, Ryan, Peanut, Cameron, Jaden, Coach Sean, Savion, Caleb, Drew, Xander, Matthew, and Coach Jim.
Being goofy!
Look at that trophy!
A pizza party to celebrate another great basketball season.
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