Graceketball

Sunday the 13th was a long day... Woody & Laura It started with getting Grace out of bed bright and early for her workout in Queens. 8:00 am - Laura Workout, St John's University Fresh Meadows Queens 11:30 am - Pro-Hoops Workout, Buckley Country Day School, East Hills 2:00 pm - LuHi vs St Mary's, Long Island Lutheran, Brookville 7:30 pm - Rising Stars AAU Try-out, Long Island Lutheran, Brookville Woody & Stone Woody Tipping it... Woody & Jay Tuesday Grace had a varsity game that they lost by 1 with 7 seconds left. Missed opportunity. Interesting sequence to finish. Down one with 15 seconds left. Woody hits a put-back to put Glen Cove up by one. Grace's teammate steals the ensuing inbound pass. Glen Cove now has the ball, up one, 12 seconds left, shot-clock off.... coach has a timeout left but doesn't use it to settle the girls and instruct/teach them how to finish up one....  kid drives to the basket rather than eating the ...

Haven't been keeping up lately. GraceAnne has three varsity games this week, Mon., Wed., Fri.. Natives are getting restless. The team is 4-4 but some of the losses were very ugly, especially the most recent one this past Friday. Focus didn't seem to be there. Teams should show a steady progression over the course of the season, especially teams this young, this talented.... parents appear to be considering bringing pitchforks and torches to games. Coach looks like a deer in the headlights. I'm staying out of it. That said, this week should be a good test of whether they have actually regrouped after what sounded like a good Sat. morning practice. Earlier in the week GraceAnne took a trip up the the Westchester Civic Center with Stone to watch LuHi play Irvington and later St Anthony's against Ossining. Both top LI teams lost in competitive games. Great for Woody to see players like Saniya Chong, Brittni Lai and Lexi Martins... they've worked hard to get to the nex...