We Will Be Legends

Just so everyone knows: AWANA Class of 2008 is now the most decorated class in Grace Covenant history.

Journey's Local Competition was today. I was not as nervous as I have been in previous years because I've been here before and I know what we have to go in and do.

I didn't go to quiz because I wasn't doing it. I saw our A team get first place though so I'll Whoop to that! If you want to know the story, go to Shaney's blog. But quiz wasn't really my concern, even though I am excited for them. I'm all about games. So here is what happened.

This year, we had 3 out of the 6 teams that were there. The other three were Skyline Baptist, First Baptist New Braunfels (I think), and, of course, our bitter rivals, Manchaca. Usually, there are a couple of flights (each with three different teams) and the first place teams automatically move on, while the second place teams duke it out to get into the next round with them. This year, the changed it up. We played on round of ten events, then another round of five events. The three teams with the highest cumulative score at the end of the two rounds would move on to the finals.

So we went into the first round as the green team. The blue team was Manchaca Bible and the red team was Skyline Baptist. The first event was basketball relay. Our girls won, the guys got DQ'd because apparently my foot was outside the triangle, and we won team basketball.





Next was sprint relay and we owned it.




Our girls tug team won, and the guys won too. Andy and Rebecca scare the crap out of me when the reach. If either of them try to do at Summit what they did at locals, they are going to get destroyed. I don't actually remember the order from here, but here is what happened in the rest of the events. Sprint race Rose and Jeff both got second place. In Agility, Rachel Wohl got first Arielle DQ'd, Brian got first, and I DQ'd. In Beanbag Bonanza, the girls won and the guys DQ'd when Brian's foot turned and he knocked the center pin over. Marathon Race came and Arielle DQ'd, but Ben actually won. Three Legged Race, Rose and Shaney got second, but Brian and Jeff fell on the slick floor and DQ'd. Marathon Medley, we whooped butt. Balloon Relay, the girls let the balloon go "out of the play area" whatever the hell that is because it's not in the rule book. I'm pretty sure they made it up. Balloon Relay, we're still not sure who it was, but someone let their foot go over a line as they were passing so we got DQ'd again. This ended the first round and we had 8 points less than Manchaca. If we had won either of those Balloon Relays, we would have had +6 points, Manchaca would have had -3 (they would have gotten second which is still 3 points), and we would have gotten first place on the circle. But we didn't. So we went into the second round.

Guess who the two teams we went up against in the second round? Grace Covenant B and Grace Covenant C. We won every game, except girls basketball, in which we tied for first. The boys balloon was probably the only interesting event we had. We won by two people, but Grace Covenant B got stopped for resetting, which is legal, and Grace Covenant C was third. They decided to rerun the event, including us, which meant that we had to go back and try to win again, which wasn't even close to fair for us because it was blatant that we had won that round, even if they had not been stopped. But we ran it again and I ran in and hit the pin pretty hard. Hard enough for my pin to go screaming into the green team pin and still continue on until it was all the way to the bleachers. Then I had to jump over Josiah who dove into the center. I thought we might have tied that round, but they gave us first anyway, probably because we had won the first round.



So the officials added up all the points and, wouldn't you know it, it was a four way tie between Grace Covenant 1, Grace Covenant 3, First Baptist New Braunfels, and Manchaca Bible. Only three teams could go on so they decided to have each team play the other three teams three times in team basketball. It was insane. This was the best part of all of games.



The first round, we went in and, didn't DQ, but I had a bad pass to Rose and her pass back to me fell in no man's land between us. Jonathan's long arms managed to get a finger on it and give it enough momentum that I could just barely reach it and we kept going. We got third, which is equal to no points.



The second round, I had some awful passes and we got second.



We sat out the third round while the other three teams played each other and I noticed, brilliant observant that I am, that Rose was crying. I kept telling her that it was my fault, I had a bad pass, which was entirely my fault and not her's. She was crying too much to play so Rachel Wohl went in and we managed to pull it out and win.

Everyone was freaking out because we had done horrible the first round, amazing the second round, and horrible in playoffs. We didn't even know if we were going to move on or not. Turns out, we did. by the skin of our teeth.

We went into the finals and there was nothing interesting to report. We completely destroyed Manchaca, only losing one game.

So there you have it friends. Grace Covenant has won locals three years running.


NOTE: I have the videos from the three basketball relays in the four way tie, but I need time to upload them.