Rep Netball (Our First Tournament)

Posted by: georgiam3 on: July 2, 2009

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On the 14th of June we all gathered together at 5:30am at the Te Awamutu Rose Gardens for our fist Rep tournament in Auckland. We were all ready when we got to the rose gardens and boarded the bus straight away. It was going to be a long trip and everyone was tired. We started off on our journey. About a quarter of the way throgh the trip everyone suddenly started talking. I was sitting at the back of the bus by Lacey with the under 15 rep team. We were the last team to get on the bus so we had to sit wherever. Suddenly it went quiet as we were all still tired and in a minute or two I fell asleep. By this time we were already in Auckland and were cruising across the harbour bridge. In a few seconds we were at the north harbour netball stadium and boy was it big.

We went and put our bags down in a foyer area then we started to warm up our first game was at ten o’clock and we were still stiff and un balanced from the bus ride. After a while of warming up we went to watch the under 17′s game. They played really well and at half time were up 8-4. Now it was time for us to warm up for our game we went back to our bag area and put on our skirts then started warming up. In about ten minutes we were on the court playing. I was on first half in the WA position. We didn’t play very well and we fumbled alot. Soon though the first quarter was over. I was off on the second quarter and we ended up losing 22-3.  We all walked back to our bags and had a team talk and som food to boost our energy. Our next game was at 11:00 so we had some time to ourselves before we had to meet up again. I went to watch the under 17′s and then came back to warm up. Our next game was against Howick. We walked onto the court  and stood in our positions I was playing WA Again. This game we didn’t play very well at all. We fumbled pretty much every pass and at the end of the first half we were down. I went off for the second half and in the end we lost 26-18. This was a terrible game for us and we walked back to our bags not very happy.

Now it was time for the lunch break. We all sat down and ate our lunch then we went and watched the under 15′s play again and the year 7′s. It was fun watching the year seven and very interesting watching the under 15′s.

Then we went to warm up for our last game. Soon the whistle was blown and we were off. With them scoring the first goal at half time we were down 6-0, but were ready to fight back. The second half began. We were all on our toes and were ready to win. We fought hard and in the end we finished up with a draw at the end. The ref hadn’t blown her whistle yet and the other team were yelling step in. We then realised that it was a draw and unfortunately their shooter got the goal in. In the end we lost all of our games and we went and hopped back on the bus to go home.