Long time, no blog! Following my last post after our Moody game, the team dropped me off in Green Bay on their way back to school from Chicago. The next day I flew to Honolulu where I was the speaker for Spiritual Emphasis Week at Hanalani Christian Schools from Monday through Friday. It was an exciting time as I had multiple opportunities to speak and preach to the students in the school. I also helped with basketball practices and got to watch several of their games. I enjoyed a round of golf on Saturday and lots of great food the entire week! On Sunday, Jan. 31st, I preached in the morning at a local church and went to the airport that night. I flew out of Hawaii about 9:30 Sunday night, and landed in Green Bay about 3 pm on Monday. I quickly made my way back to Northland, arriving about 45 minutes before our home game with Gogebic.
Gogebic is always a difficult matchup for us because of their quickness and pressure. However, our team this year handles those elements fairly well on a normal basis. We started slowly in the game, but battled back and played them well even though we trailed by 6 at halftime. However, like a handful of games this year, we shot so poorly, connecting on only 10 of 40 shots in the first half. The cold shooting continued in the second half, but our defense and free throw shooting kept us in contention, as we trailed by 5 with 5 minutes left. But Gogebic connected on some long shots and we couldn't, and they ended up winning 71-58. Tiffany led us with 21 points, and Ellie scored 16 and dished out 6 assists.
After another week off, we hit a very busy final stretch that will tell us a lot about oursleves going into the regional tournament. We start a stretch of 4 games in 8 days beginning with a road trip to Finlandia on Tuesday, Feb. 9th.
Thanks for reading.
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