Alaina spent the weekend playing basketball in the Thunderbird Invitational (sounds like a bowling tournament) in Topeka. In Kansas, both the boys and girls take a week off to play in a mid-season tournament.
Her team beat the host team, Shawnee Heights, in the opener. Heights was ranked No. 4 in its class, so it was a pretty good win. Northwest played another ranked team from Kansas City in the second round and got drilled pretty good. In the third-place game, her team lost 59-58 on two free throws with 4.6 seconds to play. Kind of a marginal call on the play.
Overall her team played pretty well. She averaged 12.0 points and 10.3 rebounds for the tournament. Odd fact: Not only was the host team called the Thunderbirds, but they had the same color scheme -- red, turquoisy blue and white -- as Lima Catholic Central.
I have links to some video from WIBW in Topeka from the first two games. On the second one, scroll down to T-Bird Invite Thursday. Nice shot of Alaina scoring on a baby hook that her mother taught her.
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