Basketball Weekend in Yakima

This past weekend we journeyed to Yakima so Noah and his North City teammates could participate in the Best in the West Tournament.  They played hard and all of the boys improved their skills by playing teams with bigger, stronger players.  They have had a pretty easy spring league season with 7 wins and 1 loss. And their previous tournament saw them win 4 games and lose 1.  This last weekend was tough, and they only won one of the four games they played.  However, all of the games were close and one even went to overtime.

 I had to put in a picture of this team from Tacoma in their pink and purple uniforms.  Number 15 with the big hair was Noah's defensive assignment during most of the game.  This kid is a big flopper and got away with it for most of the game.  Noah played with four fouls for most of the second half because the refs finally quit rewarding the dramatic antics of 15.

 Coach Eddy was very encouraging to the whole team.

 This photo is from the game they won against the Richland Wildcats.

 Noah stole a rebound from his own teammate.  Way to pad your stats boy.

By the looks on their faces you can tell this photo was taken after a heartbreaking loss.  Forrest keeps telling me that the purpose of this team is for the boys to play tougher competition to improve their skills.  It's not about winning tournaments.  However, I personally think winning makes for a more enjoyable weekend away from home.  Despite the losses the boys did enjoy hanging out at the hotel and eating out at fun restaurants together. The parents had fun too.  Alyssa came over and spent the weekend with us as Yakima is halfway between our home and Cheney.