Lenawee Magic...Destany's Basketball Team

We are in Cleveland with Destany and her Lenawee Magic Basketball Team.  She is playing in the Cleveland Cavaliers Continental Cup.  This tournament is held every year and it is for soccer, basketball, baseball, and other sports.  This is her second time to go.  She plays on the girl's high school team and she is only 15 years old....she will be in high school next year.  Kids come from countries all over the world to this tournament....Australia, Brazil, Canada, Guam, Uganda, the Philippians, and the United States....it really is a national tournament.
We got here Thursday afternoon and watched a great game by the boys on the Lenawee Magic team play.  Destany said if Travis had kept playing with them, this would have been his team.  They won but it was very close...both teams played very well.
Destany's game started out very shaky....the  SMAC Attack, other team, had only 3 players show up.  They were given ten minutes for them to get there.  Finally some more girls that seemed to be in the audience came over and put on the some  orange shirts that were on the chairs where the original three girls were...some of those shirts didn't even have numbers.  We think they just asked girls in the audience to help them out.  Anyway, the game started and we were happy Destany got to start out the game.  She thought she wouldn't get to play very much but she did. Destany is number 50.  The teams were very closely matched so it was a fun game to watch.  Lots of times during the game Lenawee Magic was ahead. Destany made two Free Throw baskets...so she helped boost up the score.  I love seeing one player on Destany's team steal the ball away from the other team.  She is so good at it.  In the end the other team won, but it was a close game.....49 to 51...I think.

Then we all went to check into our hotel rooms at the Marriott Courtyard Motel in Independence, OH...very close to Cleveland.  there was lots of heated discussions

between the Coach, Dave, the officials,  and the parents of some of the players.

for dinner we had Mexican at a nearby restaurant called Cozumel's.

 At about 6:30pm we rushed over to a John Carrol University for the opening ceremonies for the Event.  Each team paraded in with their name and Country sort of like the Olympics.

 It was exciting.

We planned on going to the Hot Tub when we got back to the motel, but it was crowded...it was small...and we decided we would go later on.  Somehow that didn't happen...we were all pretty tired.
It is a good thing Destany didn't have to share her queen size couch bed....it was more like a big twin size...but she said it was comfortable at least.