Hunter Fowler Park Basketball Championship

 Hunter's team had a great season of basketball and winning the championship game was the icing on the cake.  They only lost one time, and it was sort of a flukey game with refs that didn't call anything.  We are used to refs calling EVERYTHING, so the kids didn't really know what to do with that.  Funny enough, we played that same team in the championship game. Not only that, but we had our three tallest, oldest and biggest players missing (church trip).  To say we went into this game worried and sort of thinking we were going to lose would be true.  

 We had some great things line up in our favor however.  We got refs that called everything (this team traveled a ton, and was called for it.  It frustrated them a lot).  We were lucky to have played this team before, so Josh and Dustin could develop a strategy to beat them.  Also, our players worked their tails off.  

 Hunter played some of the best basketball I have seen from him.  He was aggressive and made good decisions.  He was a leader on the court.  The guy that he guarded was their best player.  He is Lincoln's friend and is a freshman. He's an amazing three point shooter.  Thanks to Hunter, he rarely had the opportunity to shoot three pointers and when he did, they mostly missed because Hunter was in his way.  He pretty much shut him down.

 Hunter made a three, a lot of pull up jumpers and some lay ups.  He ended up with 11 points. 

 He tried to keep the game slow, because we only had two subs.  He did a great job of pacing the game.

 He made these pull up jumpers over very tall kids.  I was so impressed!

 His dribbling has gotten a lot better this year.

 Hunter goes to the YMCA to play basketball nearly every day he doesn't have basketball practice, and some days that he does have practice.  He has worked hard.

 He was awesome.

It has been fun for these two to be together on this team.  Josh is now going to coach Hunter's travel team.  I hope that is the same great experience.

 These kids worked together, were not selfish and listened to their coaches.  It's hard to ask for more than that. 

It's been fun for Josh and Dustin to coach together for the last few years.  They've done some good things together.  So happy that they all could have this experience!