Luckily, my driver didn’t have quite so much to drink this week and I made it to the gym in time to see both the A and B team’s games. (I'm probably gonna have to fire the bum!)
The Eighth Grade Lady Chargers were in top form Thursday night! Both the A team and the B team won their games against the Falcons from Long Middle School, but each team had a very different plan of attack.
The B team took control of the evening by winning the first game 25 to 21. The B team’s overall strategy is very similar to the boy who catches a bug. While he fully intends to kill the bug, and could with one quick stomp of his foot, he pulls off the wings, then the legs, and watches as the poor creature squirms and suffers a slow and painful death.
The Lady Chargers B team playfully allowed their opponents to win the second game just to get their hopes up…not unlike the boy with the bug who pulls off one leg and allows the bug to limp around trying to escape, before ripping off the next leg.
The B team’s third game was more of the same with the score staying about even until Long Middle School scored their 20th point. At that point the legless, squirming bug lost its appeal and the Lady Chargers put the Falcons out of their misery 25 to 20.
The A team took a totally different approach. Unlike the boy who enjoys watching his victims squirm, the A team has the “Bugs are gross, so let’s get rid of them” philosophy of extermination.
For the first three points, the A team’s first game started off looking like it was going to be one of those point for point trade off games. You know the kind. However, Colleen Livingston had an outstanding 12 serve run that quickly made the score Forest Meadow 13, Long Middle School 3. That powerful run gave the Lady Chargers so much momentum they couldn’t fail. As a matter of fact, Long only scored four more points for the entire game.
Game one ended with the score, Lady Chargers 25, Long Middle School 7.
The second game started didn’t start off quite so good. Long had our Lady Chargers down 8 to 4, when sudden blast of energy swept in and the Chargers took control.
Macy Atkinson took over with the team's second Power Serve Run and quickly took the score to Forest Meadow 15, Long Middle School 8.
Once again, the Lady Chargers shifted to their, “Quick! Squash him fast!” philosophy and held the Falcons to only four more points. The game ended with a score of 25 to 12.
All five games were good games. Neither team had any really bad plays and there weren’t any questionable calls. What everyone witnessed was some good, old-fashioned volleyball. It was a breath of fresh air!
And a good time was had by all…
Except for that same tired dad who kept mumbling, “Smart Plays!“ and “Tourniquets were my idea!”
Nobody understands anything he’s talking about, and everyone tries their best to ignore him...poor guy.
3 comments:
Who could have known that you would end up a sports writer. And yea to Macy!
Mom in Virginia.
Ah, once again I am forced to read between the lines of an otherwise creatively written blog to see the green-eyed monster of jealousy rear his ugly head. Obviously, the tired dad referenced in your "work" must not be mumbling beyond recognition, as the majority of his audio seems to make it onto this blog; verbatim but ionically enough, not accredited.
I've spoken to the man which you reference weekly (and harass), and actually he seems surprisingly content in his role. Although. I have heard rumblings, or "mumblings" as some may say, that he may soon have a little blog of his own.
Elaine Simmons
Elaine,
Funny, but I detect some mumbles of a very masculine, "poor guy" kind of genera in your writing.
It's also curious how you have come to be so familiar with this mostly fictional character in my writing.
Hmmm...
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