Saturday, February 23, 2008

Day Four

Congratulations to Women's Contender Semifinalist Jenny Novak and Men's Novice Finalist Jared Komo. Jared plays early tomorrow morning for the national championship in his division and then we will begin the long drive back to Kansas City, fly to Houston, and back to Portland. We will arrive in Forest Grove in the wee hours of Monday morning, so the blog may not be updated tomorrow unless I find some time (and internet access). 

And as much as I don't want to seem like I'm praising myself, I know coach would be upset if I didn't mention this: congratulations to Lindsey Costley, recipient of the 2008 John Sabo Sr. Handball Scholarship. 

Tonight's banquet dinner may have been the longest of the banquet dinners, but at least they served the food first this year. The food was not as bad as it usually is either; we had even made more substantial dinner plans after the banquet, which have since been cancelled due to the better quality of food. And Billy Gates won a camouflaged hat during the door prizes. 

So the tournament ends tomorrow, I will make more detailed/photo posts either tomorrow or sometime early this week, but for now I'll go for the sentimental stuff. We may not have had our best tournament, but we still had a great time together. To our seniors-- Jon Oania, Billy Gates, Patrick Dedrick, Kahaili Barrows, and Hali Hutchinson-- I've enjoyed my tournaments with you. We've had some really great times, some we'd like to forget, and some we hope we never forget. I am really happy that I got to chill with all of you and get to know you. Best of luck to you all in your futures and hope to see you in the courts whenever you're around.