Ward Basketball!

Ben has been playing on our ward basketball team since Novemeber. They almost went undefeated in the "regular" season but lost one game by one point because their BIG man Dan wasn't there to guard the other teams BIG man. But none the less, they came out strong and won the rest of the games and became our Stake Champions. They went into regionals a couple of weeks ago and won their first game by a large margin. They played their second regionals game this last Thursday night. Once again they were missing a few key players, but they were not going to let that get in their way. They were winning by 10-11 points the entire game but unfortunately couldn't keep it going in the fourth quarter and lost! Ben was so frustrated by the game that he couldn't sleep at all that night. He was up until about 3am before his body settled down and let him sleep just to wake up at 7am to get to work in Ogden. One of the players nine year old boy started to cry after the game because he was so distraught by their loss. His mom tried to calm him down and he just told her she didn't understand. :( This player on the team has 4 boys, all under the age of 9, who would come to every game and cheer the team on. HUGE basketball fans! It was a great disappointment but what was most important is everyone had an amazing time playing for so long and for doing so well. Ben and I really got to know the people in our ward because of the basketball games. All in all, it was a blast.