Basketball Under The Lights

Basketball Under the Lights is a nice little program the Department of Parks and Recreation puts together for the City of Glen Cove. The kids come down to Stanco Park on Tuesday and Thursday nights, choose teams and play pick-up games. The abilities of the kids and their ages are all over the place which is actually very cool. It's just like the playground pick-up games we all used to play as kids, well, without the fighting. GraceAnne and her buddy Tristyn Hudson have to play with the boys and they still dominate. The park and its location is very beautiful, though it's been let go to seed just a bit. Real close to the water so there is usually a breeze and the sunsets have been pretty spectacular. Can't think of a better way to spend an evening!



Check out Tris and Woody cracking up while they get to humiliate a bunch of the local boys!

Woody turned her ankle a little and it still hurt this morning. I asked her if she still wanted to go to Game7 camp and she said she did. She needs to take it easy, no basketball for a couple days maybe longer, we do the Brittany Hunter CT two day camp next Thurs-Fri.


Thanks to Lou Larisse and Darcy Belyea for putting this program together. The kids really do have a good time.


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