All-Star Sunday and Sharks thoughts

I guess MMQ has come to a conclusion for this school year since there isn't really anything to critique and moan and groan about...well, maybe the Sharks, and we'll get to that in just a bit.

First, we'll start with Girls All-Star Sunday.

I thought all in all that Girls All-Star Sunday yesterday was one of our best events in the past few years. It might have been the fact that we had two sessions and not everything was crammed together like on most Sundays.

Every event had a touch of intrigue to it and for those who did show up, it was a pretty fun event to be apart of and witness.

Unfortunately, some people didn't get the memo to attend.

But for those who did you got to see some of our girls who graduated in the past few years. Tiffy was a beast and scored 20 points, and it's crazy that her class, which graduated in 2007, are going off to college.

It was personally nice to see four girls from my favorite team, Tiffy, Susan, Clarissa and Tiff play together again. It's unfortunate the other three girls on that team decided not to accept their invite for the game...

Congratulations to the St. Mary's class of 2007, who are either graduating or about to graduate in the next week or so. Special recognition to our coaches Freddy, Andrew, Tiffy and Justin. 

The Larry Wong Coaches Game was a treat, because you got to see your coaches play in a competitive game. It was a high scoring affair that ended in a 80-79 game. A few upload of the entire game should be available in the upcoming weeks, as there was a lot of great action throughout the afternoon.

Marissa won the 3 point shootout - shocker. We haven't had that many 3 pointers this year from the girls' teams, and Marissa was the only girl in a regular season game to actually drain a three ball.

To the afternoon, where Jamie outlasted Edwena in the Young Stars Shootout. Edwena put on a display reminiscent of what Jonathan did a year ago, and hit all five shots at the first station. And like Jonathan, Edwena ran out of gas in round two, as Jamie ran away with the title this season.

2-Ball is always fun, because you get to see coaches, like Freddy, and people like myself, stink it up. I ruined Gavy's chance at a win making only one shot from the one point spot.

I think the secret to being good at 2 Ball is not to be infatuated with the 5, 6 and 7 point shots, but to be money on the 2, 3 and 4s.

That's what happened with Andrew and Tiffany as Tiffany was lights out fro the 2s, 3s and 4s. The same could be said for the winners, Emily and Michaela who both were on fire in round two, and scored a 28. I'll have to look it up to see whether their 28 points is an all-time record for 2 Ball.

School-wide knockout was great as usual. About 30 students participated in the event. I wish there were more so it could be epicer - if that's a word. The girls pwned the guys this year, as the guys dropped like flies. It came down to Fiona and three 8th grade girls, Beverlyn, Amanda and Serina, with Beverlyn eventually knocking out Amanda.

The All-Star Game was fun, definitely good to see the girls from the class of 2010 play again. They were rusty as expected and lost by 10 points. They were also missing Sally, which would've probably made the game a little more interesting in terms of how the game played out. It would be really cool to see how 8th grade teams would match up if they were all at their 8th grade skill level, but that's only just a dream.

We've had a lot of strong girls teams in 8th grade the past five years or so, but this was a glimpse of something that can be done for the future.

The greatness that is Henry Deng suggested to me that one day in the future, we hold a tournament for former teams. The premise is that you would gather everybody, or almost everybody who played on your team from your 8th grade year, and then duke it out against other classes.

Probably the teams who are in college will hold an advantage just cause of their pure size, but this would be one heck of an event. Also a good fundraiser I believe.

Something like that will definitely be in the works for next season.

Now onto the Sharks, plain and simple, get the first goal in Game 5 and go from there. Hockey is such a cruel sport that you can out shoot a team 35-13 and still lose by two goals.

If the beard is at Awards Night, it will be good news as the Sharks will have forced a Game 7.

Big week on the blog coming so be sure to check back daily. Have a good Monday night of wrestling.