Parker- Basketball!

Parker's first basketball season has come to an end!  For someone who was kicking and screaming about having to play basketball, he has absolutely fallen in love with the sport.  I think the fact that he had two amazing coaches and that his team went undefeated in the regular season helped.  ;)

Parker had a kid on his team (a fellow 1st grader at his school) that is a stud player.  The first game they played, our team won 24-0 and Abe scored all 24 points.  He's a beast!  But he is also the NICEST kid!  He and Parker have become great friends, as have Stephen and I have with his parents.  Abe continued being a beast all season, but Parker started stepping his game up... he scored 2 points in the next game, then 4 points, then 8 points... and that's all I remember specifically. ;) But even more so than his scoring game, Parker played a huge role in defense!  He would block passes and shots, and rebound like crazy.

He comes home every day from school and plays basketball in the driveway.  He didn't want to play baseball this spring (?!) and only wanted to play basketball, so I was lucky to find a spring basketball program not too terribly far away.  He's obsessed!

Here are some pictures and videos of his season!

Parker's first basket of the season!

Parker's teacher and Jackson came to watch Parker's game!

Christmas Tournament:
This was outside of the rec league- most teams who played in the tourney mixed players from different teams to form stacked teams.  Our little rec team, including 3 Kindergartners, played like normal.  We lost our first 2 games (one time getting killed 35-9 by a certain team) and ended up winning 2 games in the "bracket" round, including beating that 35-9 team with a buzzer beater!  (That team should've gone all the way!). We ended up being runner up, losing in the championship game by 4!  It was very exciting.

This is really awful video of the buzzer beater shot... one of the dads got it on film (and I recorded from Facebook ;) 

Back to the regular season:

Snow day games!

This is after our last regular season game, where we were named Region Champs!  

This is after their first playoff game!

We lost in the Final Four game... ironically to the team we beat in the Christmas tournament with the buzzer beater!  (They were totally out for revenge, you could tell).  There were lots of tears, but that team really was the "better" team.

Being rewarded for being Region champs and Final Four participants!

Parker and his two coaches!

So proud of this sweet group of boys!  I'm going to miss this team.