July 14

Although these guys didn't come away with the championship title, they played a good game this evening and walked away with some hardware as the b-bracket runners-up of the Brett Slinger 11-year old Memorial Tournament.

The officiating wasn't awesome and that made parts of the game kind of hard to stomach, but the boys didn't lose their composure and continued playing hard, so I'm proud of all of them for that. 

And I'm quietly pleased that my kiddo --who has lost a brother-- got to play in the championship game of a tournament that honors a brother lost by someone else. Sad, yes, but also poetic in a way. And I am always grateful for lovely poetry.