Victory vs. Defeat

            This past weekend the Eastern Univ. basketball team, that I am a part of, went on a road trip to Ohio. The trip itself, going one way, took around nine to ten hours. It was weird to be in a different state that was so far away, just to play basketball. It almost did not seem real at first but once we got there and we started to warm up I almost couldn’t believe that we were actually here to play basketball. We were well prepared to play the first team that we were scheduled to play that day but we did not have the best start to the game. The other team kept the score pretty close the entire game but we ended up pulling it out at the end. This would mean that we would be in the championship game the following day. This time we could not have any rough starts or it could prevent us from winning the game the next day.

            The next day finally came and it seemed like a long time coming. Finally we are at the place that we drove ten hours for spent a lot of time preparing for and here it was, right in front of us. We started our warm ups but you could definitely feel as though we were kind of flat. This was a very bad thing because as basketball players, it helps to come out in warm ups hyped up and ready to play because you get the feeling that you can do anything you want, almost as it you are a super hero and nothing can stop you. One of our seniors stepped up and brought everyone together in an effort to get our together so we could win this game and it began to work. We started to take thing a little bit more seriously and it seemed like we were going to start out well. Unfortunately, we didn’t start out as well as we had anticipated. We did however keep fighting and we started to get back in the game, in fact we were winning at one point. Then at the end we started to lose our heads and make mistakes. Sadly, the other team began to capitalize on the mistakes that were made but we never stopped fighting and we never stopped working. At the end of the game we came with-in two points of beating the other team and the referees began to make some really bad calls. The game was lost by three points and it was time to go home.

            Advice: Never stop fighting for what you want and for what you believe in because it may turn out that one day what you really needed or wanted may happen for you.