Both of the Cardston varsity basketball teams headed to Regina, Saskatchewan to the Luther Invitational Tournament. (Regina is 7 hours east of Cardston). They took a charter bus because school buses can't leave the province. We thought about riding the bus with the team, but Austin needed to be back on Sunday to be with the stake presidency at a ward conference on Sunday so we drove.
The first 3 hours of our drive were terrible. If I was alone, I would probably have turned around because of the snow storm.
It was an amazing tournament. They had an opening pep rally, a Friday night skills competition, a Saturday morning breakfast banquet, and Saturday night closing ceremonies.
They had student committees from Luther to run the tournament - security, entertainment, banquet, odd jobs, announcers, scorekeepers, etc. They had a student assigned to each team who welcomed them, sat on the bench during their games, filled their water bottles, brought them oranges at half time, and brought them sandwiches after the game. The girl assigned to Hanna's team cried when they went to say good-bye at the end of the tournament.
Hanna's team played against the Lebouldous Suns and won. Their second game was against Magrath. We drive 7 hours away and have to play against a team 20 miles away that we have played a million times. Magrath beat us and ended up winning the tournament. We ended up in third place after beating the Riffel Royals.
The Cardston boys team ended up winning the tournament. Austin wanted to stay and watch, but we wouldn't have gotten home until almost 4 am. We watched the game online while we drove instead. We got home at 1 am. The bus made it safely home the next afternoon.
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| We did a 60-second visit to the Regina LDS temple. It was so cold. |
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| Grade 11 teams |
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| 3rd place |
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| Hanna's team with their student committee member who cried when they left. |
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