Julia's basketball team, the 6th grade Suns, are now 8-0 and have taken first place in the first two tournaments they have competed in – Portage last weekend and Melrose Mindoro yesterday. The fourth and final game yesterday was tough. Melrose's point guard, the coach's daughter, at one point brought the ball up the court, gestured as though she was going to drive to the right, pulled back quickly to the top of the key, dribbled between her legs for the sake of misdirection, lost her defender, pulled up for a 20-footer and nailed it. She was single-handedly beating us in the first half, but then in the second, as rules permit, we were able to full court press and we started to repeatedly trap the nifty point guard at the sideline on offense, and as we took the ball out of her hands, the rest of the team began to break down. We scored a bunch of unanswered points on steals and began to separate. Julia played some mean defense on another point guard and got into the rebounding mix under that basket. Congratulations Julia! Next week, League Championship for a two-day tournament in Eau Claire.
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