Drew's 1st 6th grade basketball tourney!

This past Saturday, Drew had his first basketball tournament as a 6th grader. We were hoping he'd have 1 maybe the weekend before, so "G" and Papa could have made it to a game before they left for AZ, but it wasn't in the cards for them this year. they left very early Saturday morning, so had to hear all about the games via texts and now pictures!

They had 2 "gimmie" games to get the tourney set up! They won both of these games and were seated against the other undefeated team. In their first game, Drew didn't score at all, but did get rebounds. he is one of the taller kids on his team, and actually jumps for them! So impressive! In the second "gimmie" game, Drew had 6 points! In one of his shots, he was fouled and went to the line. he made both of these! I was so impressed!!!

In our first official tournament game, Drew didn't score, although he did try a few times, but he got a lot of rebounds again! We are so glad he actually jumps for the ball, where some other kids don't yet! We won and were 1 of the final 4 teams left! Because the kids are young, they play half court, the opposite way the HS teams play, so 2 games are playing at once. I don't really know how they keep track of who gets knocked out in 4th and who gets 3rd but we got knocked out in this round! It was the BEST game of the day and my poor son worked his little heart out! He jumped for the start of the game.......against a 13 year old 6th grader who was 5' 11"!!! Get this....DREW GOT THE BALL!!! He jumped and the other kid didn't and Drew hit it and passed it to his player! OMG I was going NUTS! I was sooo proud of him. This tall kid on the other team played the whole game except maybe 10 seconds! Poor kid! Drew was also put in A LOT to guard this kid. The times Drew took a break, the other player on his team, suppose to be blocking the tall kid....just didn't do it, so Drew would get put back in! If our kids jumped for the rebounds, we'd get it, because this tall kid just didn't jump. Drew guarded him so well! Drew also scored a few times too! We most certainly didn't lose because of lack of trying, they just played a bit better although it was a very close game! I am so proud of Drew and can't wait til this weekend, when we play again in Kingston! Here are a few pictures. I am hoping to find the cable for my video camcorder, and want to post Drew jumping against this tall kid today too! Here are pictures in the mean time!


At the foul line!




Making his basket!




Sitting on the bench, cheering on his team!

Just an action shot!


Drew~we are extremely proud of you!

Tootles

~SHERRI~