Occasionally you see a great team riddled with injury, and that pretty much describes our team at this time. Tonight we played Heritage Christian High School for both JV and Varsity games, and though we didn’t win, surviving the night was a pretty impressive feat in itself. We only lost 6-5. Heritage was ranked #1 in the state going into the game, and we knew it would be tough. We were already heavily adapting to compensate for illness and injury going in, but it seemed as the whistle started the game, so did the line of girls coming off to see the trainer. We lost one girl completely to what was possibly a broken hand, (x-rays showed it wasn’t) and the others kept the ice bags flowing all night along our bench.

We really were not playing that well, all things considered, but seemed to be able to keep up. Tomorrow we play two again, but this time it is our home opener against Concord High School, and our last game until after Spring Break! Our goal is to get through tomorrow and allow the team a full two weeks to get healthy again. We have every reason to believe that we will actually be at full strength for the first time all season for our game on April 12th.

God Bless these girls. They are pretty tough. On the sideline the injured ones would suddenly appear and let us know not just that they could go back in, but they wanted to go back in. You can’t teach heart, but I can see that we have it. Losing to #1 while limping along was hard on them, but not the end of the world….one game at a time. They see the big picture, and are a great team. I am proud to be their coach!

Goodnight my friends and God Bless!

Tommy+