Game 3 of the season for the Loneman Eagles "B" Team.

The Lady Warriors of Wolf Creek came calling, driving the 15 miles up SD hwy 18 to Oglala and Loneman school.

Dez Blacksmith again turns in a stellar performance as the Loneman Eagles scored after controlling the opening tip and never looked back as they romped over the Lady Warriors 43-10.

One of the highlights of this game came when defensive stud Saige Pourier sent the shot of a girl 4 inches taller up into the bleachers. (ok, so, she just barely blocked it, but cut me some slack, i always wanted to be a sports journalist )Man, that girl is a Bruce Bowen in a skirt, putting fear in the hearts of opposing point guards.

I got a laugh about halfway through the third quarter, when the lead was 35-10 and Saige comes to the sideline during a timeout and tells me the other girls are calling one our girls, Sioux Dawn Janis a 'dyke'. Sioux's our equivalent of Ron Artest. I looked at her and was like, is that true? and when she nodded i said, Sioux, all you gotta do is say, "Scoreboard" and point up to it

It's so great to hear em laugh at that

I had my first parental complaint tonight too. I pulled most of the starters at the start of the first quarter, and wanted to wait to pull Dez by herself so she could get a round of applause from the crowd. Well, one of the parents(of a girl who started and played most of the game) approached me afterwards and said, " i'm ______'s dad and i just would like to know why she came out of the game. That Dez Blacksmith played the whole game and me and some of the other parents were wondering why she doesn't have to come out"

After i got over my inital urge to tell the gentlemen exactly which part of anatomy that he could stick his opinion, i responded very diplomatically and was proud of my response. I replied, "Well sir, last time i checked, I was the coach of this team, not you or the other parents. I determine who plays and how much. If you will notice, EVERY girl on the team got to play tonight, and they got to play in competitive stages of the game, not just mop up. But, if you want to know, your daughter picked 2 quick fouls, so i set her down to cool her off. Later on in the game, she was getting agitated by the other team, so again, i pulled her to settle her down. I sat down the majority of my starters at the beginning of the 4th quarter and at the end was just playing the backups. But, regardless of all that, EVERY girl got to play, and we won by 30 points, so, in MY book, i coached a great game tonight" and walked off.

whew.

Oh yeah, and the A team coach showed up and they lost tomorrow night we travel to Rocky Ford. It should be a little tougher going.

Kitso
KS 361 times it feels great when the girls stop the huddle break and make sure i get in there for the, "1,2,3 EAGLES!"