Winter Basketball 2019

After a rough start to the season (loosing the first two games), my son's basketball team made an amazing comeback, winning the next five games. They finished the season 5-3, good enough to put them in second place.

The team had a hard-fought playoff game at the end of February. They pulled off the win and moved on to the championship game.

Playoff game in action!

The team with their 2nd place trophies for the season

The championship game was a hard-fought battle against the number one team, who had only lost one game all season. Of course, the game they lost was to my son's team. The score see-sawed throughout the game.

Game in action

The drama went down to the very end. My son's team won 35-32, which was considered an upset.

Shaking hands at the end of the game

One happy (and blurry) kid

At the trophy hand-out, I was on the wrong side to get the picture of my son.

Turn around!

With trophy

The winning team

Trophies up!

After the game there was an all-star game with the three best players from every team participating. My son was not selected so he was part of the skills challenge that came after.

Gathering for the skills challenge

The first challenge was three-pointers. Boys had two shots from each of five spots on the three-point line.

Ready to shoot

Sending it up, way up!

Gonna go in?

Just a little more

The second challenge was hot shots. Each player had one minute to score as many times as possible. Here's my son's minute:



Afterwards, they gave awards to the top three overall players, the top three three-pointers, and the top three hot shots. If a boy won an overall medal, he wasn't qualified for the other medals. My son got second place on the hot shots challenge!

Hot shots medal

It was a fun end to our basketball season. We are looking forward to Spring baseball next!