(Basketball) Pistons vs Wellington Saints
On Tuesday the 17th of June my Mum, brother William and I went to the Te Awamutu Event centre to watch the Waikato Pistons play the wellington Saints. We hoped in the car at 7:20 and speed off as we were meant to be there at 7:00. We finally arrived and ran in. Mum had brought the tickets earlier that day so we just went straight to the doors. Two girls were at the door collecting tickets and putting stamps on our hands. When we went in we couldn’t find a seat. So me and William sat in the aisle beside our cousins and Mum found a seat at the top. A girl came on and sang our national anthem then we were on with it. The game soon started with the Saints winning the jump but not getting the ball in the basket. Then it was the pistons turn and in went the lay up. Next it was the Saints who got it in. It went on like this for the rest of the half. At each quarter time the cheerleaders went on and a girl started to sing to the song the cheerleaders were dancing to. The game soon went on with Pistons throwing in from the side. We cheered everytime the Pistons got a basket and were having heaps of fun. At half time they through out balls and Te-shirts and my Uncle John caught a ball and my brother a Te-shirt. In the third quarter their were lots of time outs and it went on for a while but we were relieved to see that the Pistons were up on the score board. In the fourth quarter the game was all tied up and Pistons then broke out by getting three baskets in the last thirty second. Finally it was over and the Pistons will be playing again on Friday.
(Basketball) Pistons vs Auckland Stars
On Friday the 13th of June. Mum, William, Michelle, Kristen and I went to watch the Pistons play the Auckland Stars at the Te Awamutu Event Centre. It started off by Pistons winning the jump and scoring the first basket. Then it was the Stars turn and they did exactly the same. Soon the first quarter was over and Pistons were up by three. In the break the cheerleaders went on and each team had a team talk. Soon it was back on and Pistons got the jump again. It went on and the Pistons were not getting their shoots in so at half time Stars were up. The cheer leaders came on again. The third quarter started soon after that and Pistons got the jump. In this quarter Jason Crowe the captain of the Pistons and Brian Wethers got at least three three pointers each. Then it was the third quarter and Stars were up again. Pistons won this jump and Crowe fired it down the court, he passed it to Puke Lenden and the lay up went in. Pistons won that quarter and the game. As soon as the buzzer went my cousin Kaitlyn, William and I went down onto the court and got heaps of autographs it was a really good game. I am going to watch the Pistons again on Tuesday.
Minogue Park Netball Tournament
On Sunday the 15th of June. My Netball team the TAI Soldiers went to Minogue Park for a netball tournament. Everybody meet there at 8:30 and we started with warming up and ball skills. Soon enough it was time for our first game. We were playing against Raglan Rebels and started off well. the games were twelve minutes each way with a two minute break in the middle. We won our first game 17-5 and said thank you and had a break for a game. Next game was against St Columbus Silver and we won that 17-3. We had a two game break and then were up against Paterangi Comrades. In the first half we were down but we fought hard and ended up winning 9-8. Everybody screamed, We were going to the Semi Finals. We sat down and had lunch. Then we found out we were going to be facing TAI Demons. The start of this game didn’t go very well and we were tied eight all at the end. The umpires then said that we have to go into extra time. We started off by getting in the fist goal then they did. It went on like this for a while. Then TAI Demons started shouting because they thought they had won. But they were only up by one point so we played on and in the end we came out with the victory it was a tough game and nearly everyone in both teams was crying. Our whole team shouted in victory and we were going on to the finals. We had a 15 minute break then played against the our final competitors. This time we didn’t need to go into extra time and we won in the end. Our whole team yelled in excitement. We had won our first tournament. We waited for prize giving and all went up for the prize. We each got a hat and a drink, we also got a drink holder for the game and a bag and ball. Afterwards we got a picture taken and went home.
Winter games
It turns out we didn’t win winter games. But we did win some of the sports thatb we had to play. Over all we are coming last on half a point and Puniu is winning. It goes like this. Waipa in fourth on 28 points. Waikato in third on 28.5 points. Mangapiko is in second on 36 points and Puniu is in first on 37 points. Our next competition is cross country.
Basketball
Last night I played my first basketball game for this season. Our whole team turned up at 6:00pm to play. But the other team didn’t turn up so we automatically won. We soon played a frienly game with the people we could find but we got thrashed. Soon enough the other team turned up and we played them. We played right through half time because the other team were late. After about another ten minutes of playing the game was over and we had to get off the court. We had lost 24-12 but had already won. It was a good game even though we were in the shambles in the first half. All our team members got a basket or tried to anyway.
Interhouse winter games
Today is Friday and hopefully this afternoon we are going to play winter games. I am in Waipa as you all know and I am going to play basketball. Basketball is a game that consists of eight players in a team and five people on the court. We are going to continue with the games. Each game was twelve minutes with no breaks. Mr Biddick was reffing and if you got a fowl you have to sub. All Basketball is in the ALC and we started off by playing Waikato. It was a really rough game but Waipa took the victory in the end. We had a break then we were up against Mangapiko. This game wasn’t as hard and we cleaned up in the end. Then it was down to Puniu and Waipa we both hadn’t lost a game yet and were going to fight to the end. After six minutes they were up by three baskets, But we weren’t stopping there we played till the end but our shooting was a bit off and we lost by three baskets. We put away the gear and went off down to the courts. Our house teachers asked us how we did then we had to march off the courts saying our chants to get the bonus points. We will see on Monday who won. Go Waipa!
Netball
On Saturday my team the Soldiers played off against the Paterangi Comrades and won 12-5. It was a good game but they played rough and we got bowled over quite a few times. On that Sunday we played in the Te Awamutu Netball tournament. We played in the year eight grade and played against St Pats Magic then Korokunui cougas then thames year eight which was there rep team and then Te pahu white. There was eight minutes each half and two minutes in the middle. When we faced St Pats Magic we didn’t do that extremly well. In the first half we were still warming up and some of our team members couldn’t catch the ball it got better in the second half. The final score was 10-4 to them but we think we did well. Next up was Korokunui Cougas. We weren’t really woried about this team because we believed we could beat them. In the first half we were up but not by much we were striving more and more and wanted to win in the end we did but didn’t see the score. We had a 18 minute break until our next game and all had a snack the buzzer went for full time for the other games and we were on against Thames year eight. In the first half we were down by heaps and knew we wouldn’t win but we got back out there and did our best we got the ball a couple of times and were putting in the goals. Soon the buzzer went and it ended up being something four to them. Our last game we played was the easiest one it was against Te Pahu White. In the first half I played GA like I had that whole day. I got a lot of shoots in but so did the GS soon that game was over with us winning something nil. We had an awesome day and watched the final of our grade it was Thames year eight against Te pahu Red. Thames won and Te Pahu came runners up. We didn’t get a prize but it was a great game.
Summer Games
Last friday each house competed in Summer Games. The houses are Waipa which I’m in, Managapiko, Waikato and Puniu. There were games like non stop cricket, Softball, minor games which is Danish rounders, Touch, uni hoc, table tennis and four square. I competed in non stop cricket and we were first up against Managpiko. We were batting first and didn’t go very well. In the end Mangapiko won and we moved onto our next competition. We then played Waikato and they only had eight plaayers so we had to double there points. But we still beat them. Next we played puniu and it was a really tough game but we just beat them by four points and last of all we played Waikato 2 and won again. This morning at assembly we will find out who won the summer games. Go Waipa
Totara Spings Band Camp
On Monday the 12th of May all the band and Choir students went to Totara Springs band camp for Monday, Tuesday and came back Wednesday. In the band I play the flute. which is an instrument that you have to hold out the side of your mouth but blow down into it. I’m in the beginner band and we practise separate to the senior band and the choir. On Monday we had three rehearsals each one hour and a half long then we got one hour and a half free time. We practised the warm ups Morning tide and the rest of the warm ups on that page. We practised lightly row and oh when the saints go marching in. Also we practised mickey mouse march, Geronimo and Power rock. On Tuesday the day of our concert we had three practises as well and ended up not playing Mickey mouse March. On the night of the concert nobody was allowed to go outside unless we were going to the toilet and everyone had to get their instruments tuned and play a b all together. Then suddenly when we were all ready to go the fire alarm went off so everybody had to go to the hockey field. All the parents had to get out of the hall and Mrs German stood on a table to get everyone’s attention. Then Matt the camp organiser person ran up and said false alarm somebody left there towel on the towel rail and it had started smoking so all the parents piled back into the hall and all the students went back to the place where we were tuning. Soon we marched into the hall and sat down we started the concert with the national anthem then the senior band played then the beginner band played then the choir until we were finished all our pieces. After our last part. Mr. Stanbridges band played a couple of songs for us. After the concert parents came to see their kids we had supper and went to bed. The next day we got to do the activities first you got to do either archery or slug gun shooting and the three wire. Matamata Intermediate went on the hydro slide first then we did. Everybody came off the hydro slide with bruises and bumps. After we had lunch, packed up and said thank you we hopped on the buses and left to go back to school. At school I couldn’t find my baggage it had got left at camp. So the camp had to courier it down the next day. I think Totara Springs Band Camp was great and I want to go on it again next year.
Softball
Room three has finally won inter-class Softball. A couple weeks ago we faced off against room one. It was a really close game. In the end there was only one team that got a home run and that was room three. So we won the Inter-class softball shield. Also there has been the Inter-house softball and Waikato won and got three points. Puniu came second and got two points. Mangapiko came third and got one point and Waipa(the house I’m in)came fourth and got no points. So now Puniu winning on 20 points. Waikato’s second on 19 points. Mangapiko’s third on 16 and a half points and waipa’s fourth on 12 points.
