24th Game: vs The Outsiders

With the admin people at the Minerdome making a decision to make it so we don't have any Sunday games, they scrapped the old social grades and created new ones. This meant that we now have different teams in our grade, with the exception of just two who were in our old grade. Some of the teams from our grade last season are in the new grade too. The most annoying thing about this is that our first four weeks of the season count for nothing. They wasted our money.

This game versus the Outsiders was played on the 8th March 2007 at 9:20pm.

We had a full seven players for this game with Watson playing again. We started by losing the tip and having them score first.

One of the umpires for this game was pretty bad, he made alot of wrong calls.
Some of the decisions about who last touched the ball out of court went against us.

We didn't have a really crash hot game, although we had some patches where were scored a few in a row and played good defense. James was the standout again, scoring six points in the first half and another four in the second half.
Tim scored one of two free throws in the first half and two of two free throws in the second half. Dave scored two points in the first half, Simbo scored one of two free throws in the first half and two points in the second half.
Watson scored a 3ptr in the first half and another two points in the second half. Harbs scored two points in the second half.
At half time the score was 13 to 32, and the final score was 27 to 50.

Drew got a block that was in correctly called a foul which resulted in much frustration and Dave also got called for a foul on a block.

23rd Game: vs Exies Acmy

This game was on Sunday the 4th of March. It will be the last Sunday game of this season. The reason why we had a sunday game was the took in to many teams for the social competition and didn't have enough court times. They have decided that they will change the grades from now for the rest of the season by taking out all new teams from the thursday competitions and create a seperate Sunday competition for them, and this will mean that we will probably have to face the harder teams from now on.

Onto this game, we had six players for this game with the return of Harbs and Watson, but James didn't show up for the game.
The game started with their possession, and Harbs picked up a foul the first time they took the ball to the hoop.

Both teams struggled to score early on and after a few minutes there was still no score but 2 fouls to 4. There was an extremely high foul count with 8 on us and 12 on the Exies. Having Harbs and Watson on the floor gave us alot more running pace which helped with some fast breaks during the game.

Dave, and Simbo both scored four points, while Watson scored two and missed two free throws in the first half. We played in spurts and allowed them to get away in the middle of the half. The score at the half was 10 to 20.

Our second half had patches of great defense, but also saw their top scorer become a cherry picker for the fast breaks, he scored 17 points alone in the half, which also included a 3ptr which he was fouled on.

Part way through the half we decided to start playing man on man instead of zone, and it helped slow their scoring and gave us more opportunities to score. Tim scored 5 points with 3 of 4 free throws, Dave, Simbo and Watson each scored 4 in the half.

Drew hit a 3ptr, but unfortunately it was after a foul was called, but we may as well count it anyway since it made no difference to the result of the match.

Tim played exceptionally as he got several steals as they tried the long pass down the floor as well as dishing off for the assists.

The final score was 30 to 46.

We were on top of the White ladder on percentage with the same number of wins as Excies, but now that they are changing the grades we will probably be towards the bottom of the new ladder after this week.

Next game this Thursday.

As a side note Dave and myself are playing the Indoor Cricket semi final tonight (Monday 5th March) at 6:45pm.