Game 5

Not a strong showing, truth be told. But we did make it to the championship, and I scored again. Here's a newspaper article.

http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660220293,00.html

We had two girls on the honorable mention all state team, two on second team all state, and I was first team all state. Our second-place status means we play in the Champions Challenge tournament this week (not that we'll get very far, but it will be fun). I stole the big trophy and I have in on my mantle. It's going to stay there until we have our end-of-season banquet.

Game 4

I can only write interestingly about a game once, and I'm writing a little scene/story/snippet thing for this game. So you get the brief version.

We were playing the same team we played in game 2, only this time they were ticked off (beating someone is never easier the second time). It was majorly intense. It came down to the last few seconds. And me, pathetically enough.

That's right, I scored the winning goal! With four seconds left, no less. Afterwards, I got dunked a lot. For those of you who don't know, I'm a defensive player, and I've never really had a sweet awesome shot. Mainly, I just hit the bars of the goal or throw lob-like shots when I'm trying to rocket them off. It was soooooo cool to win like that. I've always wanted to, but I never thought it would happen.

Game 3

Let's not talk about game 3. I'd rather forget it as soon as possible. Let's just say that right now, I feel like maiming anyone who even slightly annoys me. Or thinks about annoying me. Or looks at me without permission.

Game 2

Water polo state championship report:

8-5, for us! This was a team we haven't beat before, and we weren't predicted to win. I skidded onto the deck two minutes before game time, and the greyhound didn't get there until after the first quarter was over.

A few highlights: In the very first play, our substitute set player (the greyhound is our usual) scored a backhanded shot. Sweeeeet.

By the time the greyhound got there, it was 4-1, us.

Nobody I was guarding scored. I even did an a la goalie block on one of them.

By third quarter, the other team had girls on the deck gasping for breath: we were just fine.

Our team only had one ejection called on us.

We drew several ejections, two of which were on the same person (a leading scorer) so they sent her to play goalie.

More or less, we kicked butt.

Game 1

Water polo state tournament report:

We totally wasted in our first game. 12-0, and we were doing so well that my coach took me out for the first half of the third quarter and the majority of the fourth. We didn't play our best, so hopefully we're saving that for tomorrow. I did draw one beautiful ejection: I swam for about five seconds carrying an opposing player on my back. Mwahaha.

Also, we must win every game. We cannot lose, because we've decided we're winning a state championship, but to do that from the loser's bracket, we'd have to either do it without two of our players or make them skip prom (one is going with a guy she really likes, and the other is going to her first and last dance).