Prentice High School basketball

[Sir Henry]

Another win tonight against a much better team. We out scored them 51-27 in the first half and held on to win 84-61. Yes they out scored us 34-33 in the second half. We play the number two seed tomorrow. It will be a much harder game.

[Hatchdog]

Congrats to the Bucs now go get that state title. As you most likely remember, the State B championship is happening in Spokane this week. So much fun for the smaller schools from the smaller towns around to compete in the “big city”. I’m sure after playing in the home and away small gyms all year playing in the big Veterans Arena (replaced the old coliseum from our youths) in Spokane is a real treat.

[Sir Henry]

Congrats to the Bucs now go get that state title. As you most likely remember, the State B championship is happening in Spokane this week. So much fun for the smaller schools from the smaller towns around to compete in the “big city”. I’m sure after playing in the home and away small gyms all year playing in the big Veterans Arena (replaced the old coliseum from our youths) in Spokane is a real treat.

I’ve been to the old coliseum many times. In football all the Washington teams would have their finals in the Kingdom. Must have been a kids dream to play in a 65K seat venue.

[Hatchdog]

The 4A basketball state tournament is held in the Tacoma Dome. Tonight the Gonzaga Bullpups from Spokane (not to be confused with the Gonzaga Bulldogs college team) play the Richland Bombers in the championship game. Like the State B teams playing in Spokane it’s a treat for the local high school teams to travel to the west side (Tacoma, south of Seattle for ya’ll in the East and the South ). So much fun for the High Schoolers all over the nation.

[Sir Henry]

The 4A basketball state tournament is held in the Tacoma Dome. Tonight the Gonzaga Bullpups from Spokane (not to be confused with the Gonzaga Bulldogs college team) play the Richland Bombers in the championship game. Like the State B teams playing in Spokane it’s a treat for the local high school teams to travel to the west side (Tacoma, south of Seattle for ya’ll in the East and the South ). So much fun for the High Schoolers all over the nation.

Tacoma also known as the armpit of Seattle. Actually the Tacoma Dome is rather nice.

[Sir Henry]

We had to buy the tickets online as they expect the game to sell out. Tonight’s game will be the last played in a high school. The winner goes on to play in the Tournament in Madison and the loser goes home.

[daytime dave]

Good luck!!!

[Sir Henry]

Good luck!!!

Thanks. We jumped out to a 7 point lead in the first 2 minutes and then kept that lead going from 5 points ahead to 9 points and back the rest of the 1st half. Then in the 2nd half we slowly kept slipping back until we were 11 points behind. Then we make a big run halfway through the 2nd half to win 59-50.

This was a hard fought game with both sides wanting the win. These are all winner advances and the loser goes home. We now switch to a tournament play and are guaranteed 2 more games.

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Running with the trophy.

[Hatchdog]

Congratulations to Prentice. What a fun game to watch but a bit nerve wracking too. Best of luck in the tournament.

The Gongaza boys lost last night to the Richland Bombers by 14. Second place in the state 4A tournament is nothing to be ashamed of.

[daytime dave]

That's great Gene.
Not being a fan of any sport anymore, I did like your concise wrap up of the game. Very informative and well written.

[Sir Henry]

That's great Gene.
Not being a fan of any sport anymore, I did like your concise wrap up of the game. Very informative and well written.

Well I did make one error. The next level is still a winner advances and the loser goes home. Two more games and we advance to the state level and play in the 17,000 Kohl Center in Madison. We are already making plans to go to the three-day event.

[Sir Henry]

Another game tonight. This time it’s against nearby Rib Lake. We went to the latte shop there today wearing our Prentice shirts. Lots of people wearing both teams shirts. The game will be in Medford as a neutral place. We will be in white so everyone will be wearing white. I came up with the idea of wearing Whitey Tidies as hats. Plus being the Bucs as in pirates we will be wearing a patch over one eye. Should be a fun game.

[Sir Henry]

We won 75-57 against a team that didn’t want to loose. We lead by 15 to20 points most of the night and as time elapsed they got more desperate and were getting more and more fouls. Sometimes they were blatant fouls and far too aggressive. I thought two opposing players should have been thrown out.

Their fans were not very vocal or animated.

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We were really up for the game and most of us dressed in white. These pictures are of the smaller side as I was on the larger size. The gym seats about 550 and it was standing room only with overflow watching the game on TV in the adjacent cafeteria.

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These two fans were wearing a Whitey Tidies on their heads.

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The next game is on Saturday and the winner advances to the State Finals in Madison.

[daytime dave]

That's great Gene!!!!

[Hatchdog]

Whitie tighties and eye patches. Nothing screams small town high school basketball better.

Congrats to Prentice and thanks for keeping us in the loop!

[220]

Well done to the team and to you, it certainly looks like you are enjoying the ride along with them.

[Sir Henry]

That's great Gene!!!!

Whitie tighties and eye patches. Nothing screams small town high school basketball better.

Congrats to Prentice and thanks for keeping us in the loop!

Well done to the team and to you, it certainly looks like you are enjoying the ride along with them.

Tomorrow they wear their black uniforms so we are getting black underwear to wear on our heads. Nothing like men in their 70’s still thinking it’s 1970.

[daytime dave]

Boy, the team must love you guys!

[Hatchdog]

That's great Gene!!!!

Whitie tighties and eye patches. Nothing screams small town high school basketball better.

Congrats to Prentice and thanks for keeping us in the loop!

Well done to the team and to you, it certainly looks like you are enjoying the ride along with them.

Tomorrow they wear their black uniforms so we are getting black underwear to wear on our heads. Nothing like men in their 70’s still thinking it’s 1970.

You guys rock!

[Sir Henry]

It was a squeaker. Tied with less than 9 seconds left.

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We inbound the ball and score with about 4 seconds on the clock. They get the ball and make a wild throw at the buzzer and it doesn’t go in.

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Our team prays after every game.

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Next up is State Finals in Madison on Thursday or Friday. We are all going.


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