DISTRICT TOURNAMENT

MARCH 8-10, DISTRICT TOURNAMENT. WE HAD AN AWESOME TIME OVER IN BETHEL DURING THE DISTRICT TOURNAMENT! WE GOT 3RD PLACE WHEN WE COULD'VE GOTTEN 1ST.... OUR FIRST GAME WAS AGAINST THE AKULA TUNDRA FOXES WHICH WE WON BY ABOUT 20 POINTS. OUR NEXT GAME, SEMI-FINAL, WAS AGAINST THE KWETHLUK LADY KINGS. THEY ARE A GOOD TEAM.. I WAS TALKING TO THE KWIG GIRLS COACH EARLIER THAT DAY WE WERE GON PLAY THEM, AND SHE TOLD ME, HAVING PLAYED OUR TEAM AND KWETHLUK EARLIER IN THE SEASON, SHE THOUGHT WE WERE ABOUT THE SAME. SHE GAVE ME SOME ADVICE TO TELL MY TEAM, WHAT TO DO WHEN WE PLAY THEM. PLANT OUR FEET WHEN THEY DRIVE IN, DRIVE IN WHEN WE CAN, TRY TO GET THEM TO FOUL US SO SOME OF THEM COULD FOUL OUT... THAT GAME WAS LIKE A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME!!!!! THE GYM WAS FULL! AND GUESS WHAT???? JUST 1/4 OF THE GYM WERE CHEERIN FOR KWETHLUK...THE REST CHEERING FOR US!!!! FIRST TIME, THAT MANY PEOPLE CHEERING FOR US!!! SHOTS AND LAYUPS WE DIDN'T MAKE AND FOULS WE DID ON THEM LOST US THE GAME.. WE WORKED PRETTY HARD DURING THE GAME THO... I DIDN'T GET TO PLAY BUT I WAS OK WITH THAT... MY LIL COUSIN, FREDERICA LUPIE A.K.A. NUN (OR "ALLEN IVERSON" AS OUR COACH SAID BEFORE THAT GAME), WAS THE MOST POPULAR AT DISTRICT. MOST PEOPLE CAME TO WATCH HER:D SHE WAS DRIVING THE CROWD CRAZY!!!!!!!!! WITH HER AWESOME LAYUPS, PASSES ACROSS HER BACK, RUNNING ALL THE WAY DOWN THE COURT, REBOUNDS (EVEN AROUND TALL PLAYERS).... EVERYBUDDY WAS GOIN CRAZY! YELLING, SCREAMING, CHEERING, JUMPING, A LOT OF "OOOHHS!" AND "WHOAS!" AND "AAAHS!!" WHEN IT CLOSE MY EYES, I COULD STILL HEAR THE SCREAMING AND CHEERING AT OUR GAME, I COULD STILL FEEL THE INTENSITY. IT WAS A GREAT FEELING! AND IT WAS THE GREATEST GAME OF MY LIFE!! WISH I COULD PLAY AGAIN NEXT YEAR:( WHAT A GAME!! SOMEONE FROM HERE SAID THAT THE VILLAGE WAS QUIET SO HE CAME TO BETHEL. THERE WAS SO MANY TUNT PEOPLE IN BETHEL FOR OUR GAME.. I WOULD DO ANYTHING RIGHT NOW TO GO BACK TO THAT GAME AND WIN IT. WE COULD'VE GONE TO STATE! THOSE FOULS WE DID ON THEM GOT THEM FREE THROWS, AND THE SHOTS AND LAYUPS WE MISSED....MAN....IF ONLY WE MADE THEM, WE COULD'VE BEEN AHEAD BY QUITE SOME POINTS. WE WOULD'VE WON! IT WOULD'VE BEEN AWESOME FOR OUR GIRLS AND ESPECIALLY FOR THE SENIORS (INCLUDING MYSELF)... [sigh] REALLY SUCKS. AT THE END OF OUR GAME THE SCORE WAS 49 KWETHLUK AND 46 TUNT... AND SOME PEOPLE CAME UP TO NUN AND ASKED FOR AUTOGRAPHS:D:D:D POPULAR!! PEOPLE CAME UP TO US AND HUGGED US, WHICH MADE ME WANT TO CRY... THEY KEPT SAYING IT SHOULD'VE BEEN US, IT COULD'VE BEEN US, WE SHOULD'VE WON...... I'VE NEVER BEEN IN A CHAMPIONSHIP GAME BEFORE, BUT I BET PLAYERS FEEL THE WAY WE FELT DURING OUR GAME... AND AS I SAID, THE GYM WAS FULL! JUST LIKE A CHAMPIONSHIP!! THE GYM REACHED CARRYING CAPACITY AND PEOPLE HAD TO SQUEEZE TOGETHER... WE HAD THE LOUDEST CROWD THAN WE EVER DID BEFORE!! THEN IN OUR GAME FOR 3RD AND 4TH PLACE, WE PLAYED CHEFORNAK LADY SHAMANS, WE WON THAT AND GOT 3RD PLACE, LAST YEAR WE GOT 4TH.. I WONDER HOW OUR TEAM WILL DO NEXT YEAR. I KNOW I'M GON TRY TO COME HOME FROM SOLDOTNA TO WATCH THE DISTRICT TOURNAMENT. SO YEAH, WE GOT THIRD.... BETTER THAN NOTHIN! OUR GAME AGAINST THE LADY KINGS WAS THE BEST I'VE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE SO FAR:D IT WAS AWESOME! A LOT OF PEOPLE LOVED IT! HAHA...WHEN I WENT TO VISIT MY BROTHERS HOUSE, MY MOM, MY UNCLE JOHNNY, HIS WIFE JANET, AND MY SISTER-IN-LAW STARTED TALKIN ABOUT OUR GAME... A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE TALKIN ABOUT IT.. PEOPLE FROM OTHER PLACES, OTHER VILLAGES CALLED OUR SCHOOL TO COMMENT ON OUR GAME.. THE GUYS WHO WENT TO KUWAIT HEARD ABOUT IT! OUR LIL 15 YEAR OLD FRESHMAN WAS VERY POPULAR!! WE HAD A GREAT TIME AT DISTRICTS. KWETHLUK LADY KINGS GOT 1ST PLACE, NAPASKIAK LADY HAWKS GOT SECOND, KWIG EAGLES GOT 1ST IN BOYS (3 YEARS IN A ROW!), AND KWETHLUK GOT SECOND. OUR GAME WAS AS INTENSE AS THE CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES!! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!
WELL, I THINK I'M GONNA GET GOING NOW. JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT THE DISTRICT TOURNAMENT. BUT I GOTTA GO NOW. I LOVE YOU ALL!

Kong Bible Conference

Hey all! hows it goin? Last weekend, 2,3, and 4, there was a Bible Conference in Kongiganak. It was awesome! Heard some good messages, heard and sang some good songs, saw some family and friends, awesome.. The main topic was "Warning Against False Teachers." We heard about false teachings and teachers. And our theme verse was 1 Timothy 1:5. I wish I could go back to Kong, had so much fun there. I went there by snowmachine with my parents and Priscilla. There were other snowmachines from here that went. There was about 24 people that went to Kong from here. All of us went there by snowmachine, except for one person. She went by plane but came back to Tunt with us by snowmachine. Had a lot of fun while I was in Kong.
Today tho, our girls are going to Bethel for the District Tournament! AWESOME!!! The games will start tomorrow and we will play our first game at 5:30pm against the Akula Tundra Foxes. We haven't played them yet this season, even tho we went to Akula... They didn't schedule a game for us to play them while we were there. The tourney will be awesome. I hope we do pretty good. Last year, we got 4th, got last 2 years ago, and 5th 3 years ago. I hope we do GOOT! haha.. I gotta go right now tho. LOVE YA!