Basketball

I like playing basketball with my cousins. We play almost every day. We play outside at a park in the summer at night. We have a really great team called the Jamaican Lakers. Jamaican Lakers are from Jamaica. We win a lot of games because we have good defense. The people that are on my team are Thomas, Jock, Paris, Mel and me. We sit proudly on the bench that the park provides for players.

One night last summer as we got ready for our game it looked like it was going to rain. Dark clouds were in the sky. The leaves on the trees were thirsty and turned up to get their drink. We didn't want it to rain because we had practiced hard for this game.

We were playing against the Grizzlies.This team lives across town. Montraye and Montaye are the good players on the Grizzlies team. At the end of the third quarter the Jamaican's score was 88 the Grizzlies score was 85. Then the score was tied up because Montaye shot a three pointer. My team didn't get discouraged. We tried harder to win. Jock got the ball and made a slam dunk for our team. The Jamaican Laker's score was then 90. The Grizzlies score was 88. Then the Grizzlies scored from the foul line and their score was 90. What an exciting game! The score kept getting tied up. Both sides were cheering and the fans were going wild.

The score was tied and we had to break it. The best players on the Jamaican's team were Thomas and I. The other team got the ball and almost made a shot but I got the ball from the person who had the ball. I slapped it out of his hand and I passed the ball to Paris who made a three pointer. The other team made a shot at the field goal. It was our ball and Mel made a shot. Then it was the other team's ball and I tried to take the ball but I couldn't take it because he passed the ball to somebody on his team. The coach called time out and made a new strategy. I scored a three pointer and the game wasn't tied anymore. We won!!! The Jamaican Lakers were number one!

The rest of the team held me and Thomas up in the air. We felt like heroes when they grabbed us and put us over their heads. We didn't know that they were going to carry us. We were glad that it didn't rain on our lucky game. We went to Pizza Hut to celebrate. Everybody bought pizza and then we talked about the game.

Patti Weeg
patti@globalclassroom.org

May 8, 2003