District Champs!!!

We went to my neice, Haylee's, basketball game on Monday night. Haylee is like her older sister Jordan and plays basketball for the Jerome Tigers. If you remember from last year, I posted about Jerome going to the state tournaments. We followed Jordan up to Boise to watch her play in the tournaments as it was her senior year of high school.

Well, Haylee will be off to state in a few weeks too! They played Burley on Monday night to determine who would be district champions and Jerome won HANDS DOWN. Haylee is just a freshman in high school this year, but is already on the Varsity team. It was fun to go and watch her play and cheer her on. We are so excited for her to go and participate in her first state championship.

Go Haylee!

Tiger Update

After such an exciting game on Friday night, there was no way that Jaysen was going to miss the two teams playing again last night. So, it was a basketball FHE!

It was still fierce, but not like on Friday. Different refs, and better calls for both teams made it a little less stressful {for some of us anyway}. I chose to sit in front of Perry {Jaysen's dad} and was sure I was going to end up needing a hearind aid by the time the game was over. Rita attempted to calm him down, but there was no way he was going to stop until the game was won. He made me laugh so hard. :0) He would start complaining about a call before he even knew what the call was.

Perry: "What? She didn't do anything wrong! She's the one that got fouled!"

Rita: "Perry! That what they called!"

Perry: "Oh. I thought they said she travelled."

Yeah.... {lol}

Anyway...the Tigers started off the game rather sloppy and we were all starting to worry. The Bobcats scored the first basket again this game. Bad passes went from there, and it wasn't pretty. But, thankfully they got their game ON and played hard.

And do you know what I've decided...girls are just MEAN! Ok, so I haven't JUST decided this. I already knew that. But, wow! The Bobcats were pretty upset when they started realizing they were getting outplayed and that they were losing. They fouled just for the sake of fouling. Almost as if they just didn't care anymore. Jerome steals the ball, so another naughty little Bobcat would trip, push, MANHANDLE the poor girl. It was vicious. And, though I'm not a basketball player, I do know that fouling isn't the goal of the game. It's rather frowned upon. Which is why you can get kicked out of the game for it. I realize there are times when you have your team strategically foul and what not...but not so maliciously. Or maybe I'm wrong. Oh well. One of the Bobcat girls even got a technical called on her. The girl! So, you can see how HOT it was getting in there.

No matter, the Tigers kept it going till the end and won the game by around 10 points!

And you know what that means?????

They are DISTRICT CHAMPIONS! We are so happy for Jordan. What a way to end her high school basketball career! She is a senior, so it's a great way to go out. Now, they are on to state in a couple of weeks. We're rooting for you Jordan! Go Tigers!

Tiger Power {clap clap, clap clap clap}

So, I'm a little late in posting this. BUT...

Friday night was the big district finals game between Burley and Jerome. So, we all went over to Jerome to watch Jordan play.

She's #10 here in the picture.

Can I just tell you what a CRAZY game that was? From the first second of the game till the last dying seconds it was FIERCE. I had no idea that a girls high school basketball game could get that way. My brother in law's face was red, eyes watery as he screams at the idiotic referee not protecting his daughter from the barrage of fouls coming her way. Even Jaysen's dad got into the yelling. {not as loudly though} Towards the end poor Rita {Jaysen's mom} was getting physically ill because it was getting so intense. And, I will have to say {though I didn't YELL it} I was "talking loudly" when they missed a shot {oh no!}, or threw a bad pass {good passes guys!}, or when one of Jerome's players got smacked in the head by a bad little Bobcat and the ref didn't call anything {WHAT? Did you just see that Jaysen? Does that happen ALL the time? Holy cow! Is that not considered a foul? It is? So that a bad ref huh? You know, he was my Vice Principal when I was a senior in High School. No, I can't tell him to be nice to the girls. He probably doesn't even remember me.}

Both teams have a lot riding on these games as they decide who goes to state and in what ranking. Currently Jerome is ranked #1 in their district and #2 in the entire state. They are good. :0) Yes I am bragging on my neice. Her little teammate Aubree Callen is amazing as well. They did a great job of holding off the Bobcats and basically driving them crazy. It wasn't a high scoring game, and most of Burley's points came from foul shots. :0) It ended up at the end of the game again, just as last time, though no at the buzzer basket for Burley to send it into overtime. So yay! We won! Barely...but Jerome still won! Mackenzee shook those little orange pom-poms like crazy rooting them on too. :0)

Unfortunately, Burley won their qualifying game yesterday, and so now they have to match up again this next week before they go on to State Tournaments. We will be going again to cheer on our Tiger. Pom-poms and all. Maybe I should bring some Tums for Rita.