We Are Back AND Exhausted!

We got home from the tournament around 7:00 pm and I had to run to Blackduck to pick up our dogs that were at the kennel....kind of missed them! We have a huge one year old Black Lab that Shelby named Tucker and a 5 month old Australian Sheppard named Allie...I missed her the most.

Anyway, I haven't had time and don't have the energy to download and go through any pictures tonight and it will probably be days before I get them all done.

BUT, the girls had a great first trip to the State Tournament and represented Bigfork High School and their community very well! They gave us a very exciting first game at "The Barn", Williams Arena, at the University of Minnesota. Just seeing them play there brought tears to quite a few Bigforkians....especially the parents.

We were not expected to beat Goodhue and almost didn't, as the girls had their lowest scoring percentage all year long, and were still able to pull off the win. Bigfork's defense kept their top scorer to 4 points and Bigfork also outrebounded them....I think the girls shot around 26% and their average for the year was 48%! So they were way off! Might have been a little nerves going on there? They kicked it into gear though and got the job done, much to the relief of the Bigfork crowd. It was nice to get that game off their back so they could enjoy the whole tournament experience and not have to go home right away.

They played Cedar Mountain-Comfrey in the semi-final game at the Target Center and that game as another great game that went into overtime. I think they were really trying to give us all heart attacks or something! It was another very exciting game and our girls had the game but a few errors down the stretch turned out to be costly and CMC won in overtime by 5 points. Adrianna was hot from the three point line and hit four in this game, while Lise hit two and Megan and Shelby each had one a piece, so a total of 8 three's in that game! They were SO CLOSE to getting in to the Championship Game their first year at State! That would have been something else, but nevertheless, we are SO PROUD of everything they accomplished and at how well they represented Bigfork.

Today they played for third place against the No. 1 ranked Barnum Bombers, who incidentally had a rough semi-final game against Ada-Borup. They lost to Ada by 21 points which was actually a shocker as they did not play like we know them to play. But today, they played well and were ready to win. Our girls had two very physical and mentally tough games that really drained them and they could not get anything going well today at all. They shot only 20% at the free throw line which kind of tells you how the game went....Shelby had a tough game and only ended up with 3 points while Lise, Theresa and Robin had 4, Adrianna had 10 I believe, with three from the three point line and Megan had 5 or 6...I don't have the numbers in front of me, but it was just not a good game, and certainly not what we know our girls are capable of...

We are so proud that they came home with the 4th place trophy, which is pretty good for the SMALLEST team (school enrollment of 78) in the whole tournament! Impressive for a small town with a K-12 school!

I will fill in information in the next few days and go through the pictures and post them on the gallery and on this blog as soon as I have some free time....need to get some rest now!