Our 7 year old girls won 1st place champs in Evangeline Parish Youth Basketball. We are so proud of them. It was a very trying and stressful time at the tournament this year in Grand Prairie! Our girls were undefeated during season ball, and Grand Prairie wanted them to lose at all cost during the tourney. For everyone that doesn't know what happened, I'll make it short. (Everyone in the Village of Pine Prairie has definitely heard! We were the talk of the Village!!!) During the 4th quarter against Sacred Heart, the official scorekeeper said that I did not play one of my girls 2 quarters for the game. She had played in the 1st quarter and she had marked down the wrong player. The referree actually screamed forfeit, you lost, get out of here! I started trying to explain that she had played and that we had it on video. They wouldn't even talk to me. The other coaches tried to tell them she played. Well, I started crying...I know you can't imagine me doing that. LOL! I went to talk to the director and all he would tell me was to get out! They told me to shut my mouth or I was about to get arrested. So, the tears really flowed. Meltdown would not have described what would have happened if I would have been arrested! Well, for those of you that do not know anything about Pine Prairie & sports, people come alive when you try to cheat us. The whole village comes together for our kids & sports. Well, we were all thrown out and escorted to our vehicles. I forfeited our final game because the kids were scared to death. After a sleepless night with tears, work the next day, and some encouraging phone calls, I decided that we needed to show them that we were gonna fight back. We returned Sat. morning and beat Grand Prairie in the final game. I think all of the adults were more excited than the girls. We were so proud of them! It is ashame that some adults would want to scare and cheat some little girls! The girls were saying, "you can cheat us, but you can't beat us!" They have been the tournament champs for the past 3 years! We are so proud of our girls! Thanks to everyone that supported us!
