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Welcome to Day 9 where we headed out of Charlotte and down to Greenville. Last night's game, for those people who have been checking in on a regular basis, against United Faith Christian Academy was cancelled due to a scheduling error which was out of our control. We were to play their Junior Varsity group but unfortunately there had been a mix up between the coach and our tour organiser. We did get the opportunity to watch their Varsity team practice, who are the current State 1A Champions with a line-up that boasted starting guards around six feet, who could dunk easily, to 6'7', then 6'10' and then 7'0' - Peter Durkin, who is currently ranked in the top 20 highschool players in the U.S. They were obviously very big and athletic and certainly had the Rowville group entertained with a range of dunks - and that was just in the warm-up!! So while we didn't get to play, and we're trying to see if we can organise another game as a replacement, we certainly got to see a very good highschool team with 5-6 athletes who will play division 1 college basketball.

Tonight's game sees us traveling some 3 hours from Greenville to play Silver Bluff High School who will be a similar standard to Burns High School from 2 nights ago so we'll need to play with a greater level of effort and intensity overall. Game pics and footage to come in the next 24 hours.

The game against Silver Bluff was probably our best so far and despite having driven a total of 5 hours prior to the game. We were able to keep it tight for most of the night, playing mainly zone but also doing a better job of taking care of the ball. This has been an area of concern but tonight we were much more disciplined with the way we played and the end result indicated the closeness of the contest. With a minute to go the difference was only 6 points but unfortunately we missed a couple of opportunities to score with the final result being 46 to 37. The group played with more poise and discipline so hopefully the results will be better with time.

Game MVP - Lachlan Parker Notable Mentions - Ryan Sinclair, Sean McKinnon











Tomorrow we head off to Aiken SC to play DW Daniel High School who have won the State Championship for the past 2 years. We'll see how the boys do!!