Heartbreaking Loss

The Nome Nanooks couldn't pull it out today. We still had two seeding
matches in the morning at 9 and 10 and then, because we lost two out of
three to hometown Bethel, we were seeded number two and had to play
immediately again at 11 o'clock. The girls were getting tired.

The great thing was that our junior varsity ended up beating all the
other junior varsities and got seeded number six out of six into the
bracket. If we had beaten Bethel, our varsity would have had to play
our junior varsity. Our junior varsity managed to take the middle game
and only lost two games to one. Not bad. This was definitely one of the
cases where one out of three ain't bad.

So varsity ended up 7-2 to start the tournament. We took care of Chevak
but the scores were a lot closer than they should have been. We went
into the third place game against Kelskag after only an hour break.
Again, the scores were a lot closer than we'd like. In fact, it seemed
we were beating ourselves more with hits into the net and balls that
went out that should have been hit over rather than trying to "place"
the ball into a certain area. We won the first game but let the second
game get away from us. We started to trail in the third game and then
never got it back. We were out of the tournament. Bethel ended up
beating Kelskag three games to two in a best-of-five.

Now comes the real heartbreaker. Our plane got fogged in. The Bethel
wrestling team is stuck in Nome and we are stuck in Bethel another
night. We were supposed to fly out about 6 or 7 but the fog and a bit
of ice kept us here. They will look again in the morning but Bering Air
is looking at the weather and the next window looks like about 4 pm.
Now I am hoping that we make it out tomorrow. I don't want to have to
do sub plans for Monday.