Basketball Season in in full "Bounce" along with a "Kick" from Soccer

Today was a busy day - from one thing to the next with several events overlapping.

It started off with Marissa having a Young Women's Basketball game at 10:00 am while at the same time Robert had an indoor soccer game.  Mark took her to the Stake Center in Crestwood, while Betsy took Robert to his game at the Y in Buckner.

Marissa's team won 8-4 (very low scoring game, and it wasn't even first thing in the morning (however the girls probably just woke up at 9:00).  Unfortunately, during the game somehow Marissa hurt her ankle.  Mark didn't see it, and she didn't limp during the game, but as soon as the game was over she didn't want to put any weight on that foot.

Robert's team did very well.  They are playing in a High School Indoor League, so they play guys that are huge (most of them).  Today they played the Trinity Freshman soccer team.  We were doing very well 3-2 (down by one) at half.  It was great to see them not be intimidated by the speed and strength of the older boys.  Robert scored one of the goals.  After the half, our coach put a different goalie in (someone that doesn't normally play goalie because our regular goalie, Justice, was injured in the first half).  Unfortunately, he let 4 goals in very quickly.  UGH!!!  The score was 7-2.  Robert scored again, and so did Tyler, then they did too.  The final score was 8-4.  It was a loss but it really wasn't as bad as the score board showed.  If we didn't let 4 easy goals in, we would have been tie.

Immediately after Robert's and Marissa's games, we meet up at the Starbucks in Crestwood to swap kids.  After some delicious hot chocolate on a freezing cold day, and getting ice for Marissa's ankle, Mark took Robert to his Y basketball game at St. Francis School in Goshen, while I took Marissa to Lexington to run in the Wildcat Invitational. 

Robert's game started at 12:00 pm.  There seemed to be a theme going on here - play huge kids.  The team they played against were all Freshman in high school.  At first they were intimidated but soon Robert made a 3 pointer and got "Hot".  They were ahead by 6 at half 18-12.  Robert remained "Hot" for the rest of the game.  He made 4 "3" pointers and a few drives.  He also had some nice assists to Mason on the inside.  Robert left the game with a good lead (confident they would win) to get to his next basketball game that started at 1:00 pm back at the Crestwood Stake Center.

Robert was late to the game, but it was a game they predicted losing so it was more important to stay at the game they had a chance to win, plus he wouldn't be that late and they have to rotate boys in/out anyway.  Robert's team is all boys younger than high school with the exception that Devon was there today.  Thank goodness we had Devon to get some rebounds - unfortunately he got in some early foul trouble so he needed to be out for more than he should have been.

They lost by 20 but it was better than their loss from the last year.

While they were at basketball, Betsy took Marissa to Lexington to run in the Wildcat Invitational.  See next post.