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Roller coasters and basketball! Can't beat that combo! Very fun weekend at USJN in Harrisburg PA. Team went 2-3 but visiting the park and spending the whole weekend vacationing and finding things to do was great! Lots of fun at the park with rides and roller coasters. Great bunch of kids and parents.

Seven games in three days over the weekend. Game7 McCombs went 4-3 at the Riverside Hawks Summer Tip-Off. Dunno how Kevin picked up the extra games but he did. If they had played the way they are capable of they would have gone 6-1. Two games Fri at Northsport, two games Sat at Interstate Sports Academy in Sayville, two more games in Sayville on Sunday morning followed by a Sunday afternoon game in Northport. I was tired, can only imagine how tired she was. In the two Friday night loses they came out very slow, dug themselves a big hole in the first half only to come storming back in the second half getting within seconds of overtaking their opponents before the final horn. It was too bad because they played extremely well after both bad starts. GraceAnne played well all weekend. Got tired and frustrated in the seventh game in a loss against what is a very good Catapano Lightning team. Scrimmage against Bethany Lesueur's Coast to Coast 8th grade team Tuesday, Lepore Lightning...

Five games this weekend with Game7 McCombs at the Riverside Hawks Summer kick-Off. Two tonight at Northsport in Northport, the rest are at ISA (Island Sports Academy) in Sayville. Hopefully the team will play aggressively, when they do they're tough to beat. GraceAnne has finals this week. She's been doing a LOT of studying and had a math test this morning so it was nice to have an opportunity to hit the gym at mid-day before she went back to the books. BIG science test today. She's done very well academically this year but I'm sure she'll be glad when school is finally out for summer.

Fun weekend for Grace! She played extremely well in all six games. Style of play for the two teams she played on were very different. She likes the ball movement and transition offense of her G7 team which presents her with more scoring opportunities. She is also meshing well with her Lightning Lepore teammates and becoming more confident and aggressive. On offense she was driving and taking shots with confidence knocking down several jumpshots, drew lots of fouls and converted most of her free-throws. She has also become a very capable defender at all five positions. Haven't seen her asked to defend the point much prior to this weekend but she did an excellent job when asked to do so. I have never seen her block as many shots as she did this weekend, never . She is learning to control the ball after the block and on several occasions just grabbed the ball out of the air on the shot for a steal rather than block. She went down hard a few times especially on a play where she at...

Six games in three days playing for two different teams. Hoop Mountain at Island Garden, everything close to home so should be a fun time. Open gym with Gus Sirakis and Glen Cove Varsity today at 4 then straight to FST in Westbury for a practice with Lightning Lepore at 6. Game7 training in RVC with Nicole on Thursday. Friday night a game against GraceAnne's good friend Grace Stone's team then a game against Kevin McComb's Game7 team that Woody has been guest playing for. She's playing herself. Saturday she plays against Stone again, this time for Kevin's Game7 team. Sunday she starts the day playing with Game7 in the first game, changes uniforms and stays on the same court for Lightning Lepore in the very next game. Finishes at 4 on Sunday again with Lightning. GOT THAT? Should be interesting! Trying to find a gym so she can work-out with Carrem Gay a few times and see what that's like. Also trying to get her up to the Boys and Girls Club here in Glen Cov...