Even though we had beaten East side three times that year, with a larger margin of victory each time, I was still nervous. Our game was held at the University of Virginia Colleague at Wise Gymnasium, following the girls' championship game. Everything was routine by now, shoot-a-round before we got on the bus, watch the girls play, pre-game brief, warm-ups, then win the game. The game was slow and low scoring with a halftime score of eighth to eighth. Entering the locker room at half I felt confused and that I was in a horrible nightmare and needed to wake up. The third quarter ended, then the fourth and I looked to the gigantic scoreboard and it read, "Raiders: twenty-eighth; Spartans: thirty-two", then it was over. We had lost; I had
Even though we had beaten East side three times that year, with a larger margin of victory each time, I was still nervous. Our game was held at the University of Virginia Colleague at Wise Gymnasium, following the girls' championship game. Everything was routine by now, shoot-a-round before we got on the bus, watch the girls play, pre-game brief, warm-ups, then win the game. The game was slow and low scoring with a halftime score of eighth to eighth. Entering the locker room at half I felt confused and that I was in a horrible nightmare and needed to wake up. The third quarter ended, then the fourth and I looked to the gigantic scoreboard and it read, "Raiders: twenty-eighth; Spartans: thirty-two", then it was over. We had lost; I had