District Volleyball Tournament 2008

Katie in ready defense position
Pateros Nannies just before match started (everyone was still smiling at this point)

This morning we got up early and headed to Kittitas for the district volleyball tournament. We played our first game there on Tuesday and lost to the first place team, Moses Lake Christian Academy. So today it was a loser out game, loser goes home, winner plays again later for the second spot to state. It is the best of five. They lost their first game, won the second, won the third. At this point I was a little excited thinking they might do this (the team they played we had lost both matches during the regular season). We really seemed to have the momentum on our side, but if anyone has watched much volleyball it can change quickly and frequently in any game. So the other team came back and won the fourth game, so it was tied 2-2. The next game to decide the winner is just played to 15 instead of 25. Well, needless to say we lost something like 4 to 15. Very discouraging. They looked really good in a couple games and then in the last game they looked awful. So, it's over. There were a few tears, mostly from the seniors on the team. Katie will now start her four month break. She decided last year to stop playing basketball and take up snowboarding instead. She hopes to work on her pitching this winter though. Katie went home on the bus and Bob and I stayed and watched the first two games that Manson HS was playing since several girls from the ward are on the team. They lost both games so I don't know how the rest of their day went. We of course stopped in Wenatchee on the way home and finally got back to Pateros around 7:30. We left the house at 7:30 this morning! We get to drive back to Wenatchee in the morning for Stake Conference, yeah.