State Water Polo Tournament. Need I say more? Actually yes, I do. Saturday, November 5, 2011. Let it be known that the Magic Valley Water Polo Team became State Champions... and almost twice in one day. (I'll explain a little later.)
First game, versus Idaho Falls. Let's just say that game was incredibly easy... :) We won 13-2. Second game, versus Hillcrest. That was very possibly even easier, 15-1, I think. The third game wasn't so easy, however. This game was for the combined schools' teams State Champs. We were up against Moscow. Points were scored back and forth; it was a close game. But we ended up winning by two in the end, 6-4. And that was it. We were State Champs. The end, right?
WRONG.
Well, not completely wrong. We still were State Champs, that just wasn't the end. By some odd miracle we were allowed to play against Bishop Kelly (yes, THE Bishop Kelly, the State Water Polo Champions for many years consecutively in the past) for the individual schools' State Champs title. Why they let us play for that when we are a combined team, I know not. ...But that doesn't matter. What matters is that we played them. And almost won. Heck yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah, people always say "Almost doesn't count," and such, but for us, for this, almost does count.
Bishop Kelly wasn't pleased when they heard they were playing us. They assumed we would be just like all the other teams they played that day: sucky. During the first sprint they butterflied. BUTTERFLY. Wow, losers. I think they were trying to intimidate us. it didn't work. They just looked like idiots. And it cost them the ball. We got it first, and went in for a shot, and made it. That's right. We got the first point. Suck it, BK. By the end of first quarter we were ahead 2-1. I think BK got it into their heads that we weren't messing around, though, and they started to pick it up. Second quarter no points were made till the very end when BK made a lucky shot. We went into half tied 2-2. Over the second half it was really intense and the game ended 4-4. More shots went into the net than that, however. A lot of them just didn't count due to fouls and such. But yeah. Because the game was tied we went into a shoot off. We pick five shooters; they pick five shooters. The pressure is on. Especially for the goalies. We ended up losing, but barely. But it doesn't matter. We still won a State title and showed BK up. That's all that matters isn't it? :D
Water Polo=Life.
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