big sports weekend for the ladies

big sports weekend for the women in the house: emma had 3 bball games (in a tourney), a hockey game, and a little volunteer referring for little kids games on sat; terri two hockey games. all went pretty good. the bball team won one and lost two but played all close games and definitely overachieved. (behind by 3 to last years CAA champion, for example). emma played really well: she had to run the point as our regular point guard had the flu, and completely held her ground against the big girls down low on doug's newly implemented (and surprisingly successful) 2-1-2 zone defense. she wasn't so happy with the outcome of the hockey game, but a 2-1 loss to one of the top ranked teams in the state didn't seem too bad to us.

terri's big game was this afternoon, against the team just below them in the standings. it didn't look good at first--they got behind. but they founded a furious comeback in the last period, got within one goal, and pulled their goalie with under one minute left and scored a tying goal with 28 seconds left. final score: 4-4. rarely will you see such an exciting tie. we were all there in the stands, going crazy. for good measure, terri had an assist in the game on saturday night in a losing effort. she now has 5 points for the season (3 goals, two assists) and--more hillariously--is stilled listed as the top goalie in the league on the basis of her 4 save shutout earlier in the season.

news for ben and doug: the two of them went to the gophers game (W over Iowa) this afternoon. ben had a 3 hour jam session with a couple of new kids yesterday afternoon, and they are thinking of getting a new band going. "spring" classes start for doug tuesday. he is trying to finish up his syllabus tonite so his TA (who has been snowed in in Atlanta) can get it all printed out and ready.