Boys both had basketball this morning….showed up for Christopher’s game and the opposing team only has 4 players. They play 4 on 4 for the 1st quarter. I know the coach of the other team (I coached his son in soccer last year); he knows Matthew….ask at the end of the 1st quarter if he wants to use Matthew for a sub.
Turns out they use Matthew as a fifth player (no subs) which had the bizarre outcome of Matthew playing more of the game than Christopher. The other outcome was that many of the players on Christopher’s team (who play soccer with both of the boys) were lining up to be matched up with Matthew for fun. While many wanted to be matched up with him, Christopher took his brotherly rights and ended up matched up with Matthew for two of the 6 half-quarters that Matthew played.
Matthew –vs- Christopher doesn’t happen very often….normally they are on the same team. Both boys seemed to get a kick out of this turn of events; big smiles as they are playing. Video of this rare event can be found here…..
Matthew did go and play his game immediately after the 3rd/4th grade game finished. No real noticeable drop off in activity level….still was going full speed at the end of the second game and was diving after loose balls and picking off passes.
