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Saturday, February 25, 2023

Mandatory Basketball Rant - Winter 2022-23 - Week 12

 Two more weeks of tournaments until AAU practice dominates everything, so here's the big update.  

Rec ball is done for the year!  Long live rec ball!

Championship Saturday came and went with only one minor snafu:  No board member was available to hand out trophies for one division and the volunteers on sight were less than gracious.  Now, there is no formal ceremony, no formal picture taking with these $4 trophies.  Heck coaches were just happy we handed them an armful to distribute amongst their kids.  

Of course, I now realize the people making a stink about the apparent lack of pomp and circumstance (which was never there to begin with) was a family who we've had numerous run-ins with their business ventures over the years, including a restaurant and a day care the kids went to for a short while.  Stuff never fully escapes you in a small town. 

Nevertheless, the games were extremely competitive (the largest margin of victory was six points), with an overtime match and the final game coming down to a 3-pointer made by a kid who "couldn't find the whole in the basket the first practice."  Plenty of storylines to promote for next season.

While Millie's Freeland team didn't get teams to play against for their tournament, the 3rd/4th grade girls got five team, one from the local rec league.  Given that half the girls playing had just been on the wrong side of 17-16 overtime thriller, there was no mercy for the other teams.  The results were ugly the two dozen jump balls per game uglier, but I think the rec league's travel team should be in good shape for the 2023-24 season.

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