Weekend game report

In addition to doing cool things like visiting Takalik Abaj and Champerico, we also played some basketball this weekend!

 On Saturday we played against the sub-21 and adult teams from the of Retalhuleu (Reu). For those of you familiar with our trips, this is the green gym where someone on a previous trip may or may have had a situation with a bathroom door.

First up were the Young Guns and it was pretty clear that even in such a short time that the students had forgotten what the heat and humidity of D.C. are like because everyone was pretty gassed. That being said, the Young Guns played pretty well but still not quite well enough to defeat the heat-tested team from Reu. Stat girl is convinced that when all these guys come back next year :) they will be unstoppable!

Young Guns 48 vs. Reu 56
Sanu: 13P/5R/1A
Alec: 2P/5R/2A
Carlos: 2P/1R
Ronnie: 1R
Miguel: 1R
Demani: 7P/3R/3A
Nigel: 3P
Carlton: 4P/2R
Daniel: 13P/7R/2A
Malik: 4P/7R

Group photo with all four teams in Reu.

The Old Heads were up  next and once again during this game is when some of the creative score keeping came into play. When Stat Girl isn't running the clock/scoreboard as well, she always makes sure to keep the overall score and not just stats too because even if we lose based on what's on the scoreboard, it's nice to know that we actually won (which has happened...several times).

Even with the creative scoring, the Old Heads were able to pull out a two-point win. And this is also when we said good-bye to our friends Jim and Josh who had to return to the States for that pesky thing known as work.

Old Heads 56 vs. Reu 54
Bryan 5P/3R/2A
Josh 8P/15R/2A
Diggs 12P/4R/2A
Malik 11P/9R
Alex 8P/5R
Sanu 11P/1R/1A
Daniel 1P/1R/1A

Sunday it was off to San Felipe!

On Sunday it was off to San Felipe for a game with our old and dear friend Paty and her teams. It was also a chance for some of us to at long last, get some chicharron and carnitas, but we'll talk about that a bit later.

Once we got the gym set-up, yes, sometimes we have to help clean up and/or organize the court before our games start, the Young Guns took to the court. While they were down by more than 20 points at one time (I blame the late arrival home on Saturday and the early start time on Sunday) they rallied and came back to take the lead for a brief period of time, but they ultimately lost by three.

Although they've lost several games, I think this one may have been the hardest since they did rally so hard. Still, Stat Girl will give them credit, after some initial moping, which is to be expected, they returned to their jovial selves pretty quickly.

Young Guns 50 vs. San Felipe 53
Demani 6P/3R/2A
Daniel 19P/6R/3A
Alec 5P/14R/1A
Carlos 8P/1R
Manny 2R
Ronnie 4R/1A
Nigel 3P/5R/2A
Miguel 2P
Carlton 2P/2R/2A
Malik 6P/5R

Johanna and our good friend Paty who runs the basketball program in San Felipe.

Because there were some issues with scheduling the Old Heads game our friend Hans who plays for Xela and San Cris joined the San Felipe team. Combio Man, as we've long called him because he plays for so many different teams, lived up to his nickname. While Stat Girl kept score and of course stats, this game was more like a Sunday morning pick-up game than an actual game. The Old Heads went up by quite a lot early on and ultimately won by 10.

Old Heads 54 vs. San Felilpe 44
Bryan 7P/12R/2A
Diggs 10P/5R/1A
Malik 10P/12R/1A
Alex 5P/10R/1A
Jeff 3P/1R/1A
Sanu 16P/9R/2A
Daniel 3P/2R
Hans 4P/10R