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week 7, basketball camp

This summer is the summer of first timers! Last week was the first time I played soccer and this week was the first time I played basketball! I had enrolled at the eastern ct. state basketball camp, it was a challenge to fit in and keep up with everone else,especially when you dont even have basketball shoes!!! On the first day we did a warm up shooting drill and didn't make a singe shot! My dad told me that at the end of the week I would fit in with everbody else, I had hoped that was right, but at least I couldn't get worse.Then the coaches drafted thier teams and we began practicing the basics.At this camp you play to games every day to rank, then on Thursday and Friday are the playoffs. My team was a lot of fun and I met alot of nice people from my town. However my team wasnt very good and since I was the weak link I was traded to the number one and undefeated team.I t was great for me becuase I got to met more people and I learned more about the game. Eveyrthing was perfect until thursday when the playoffs started and our best player didn't show up!Lucky for us we played my old team first(1vs8)and walked away with a win! My skills were improving and I made my first basket as we won again to go on to the semifinals, still undefeated we were the team to beat !Once friday came around we were short 3 players and had 1 sub! We won the semifinals by 4 points and were headed to the championship! For the championship everybody at camp was watching,we played on the main court and music was playing! The game was back and forth, which was an unsual place for our team. At half time we were down by 3 and everybody wanted us to lose. We came back and tied it up with three minutes to go. Then with two minutes left I made a basket!!our team went into a defensive mode to protect our lead. We were able to run out the clock and win the championship!!we were undefeated blazing through camp 10 and 0,and I had the winning basket!! troughout the week I meet new friends played a new sport and had a great time....I might just tryout for Winch's basketball team!