Dodgeball Tournament - Sept. 8th and 9th

Colt's dodgeball tournament with their colleges was on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 8th and 9th. The tournament was single elimination. His team won their first game Wednesday night so they played again an hour later. I got there in time to watch the second one, and it was right about the time the tornado warning was going on and a tornado actually touched down just a couple blocks from the school! We all had to go sit in the locker rooms at the school rec center until it passed over. One of Colt's classmates actually took a pic of the tornado from outside his apartment.

Since his team won both games on Wednesday, he played Thursday, and he actually ended up playing three games Thursday night because they made it to the Championship game! I'm sure Colt would do this post much more justice than me because he said it felt like they won the Super Bowl! It was a pretty intense and exciting dodgeball tournament.... Much more intense than I thought it would be!  They played against Cary College the first game on Thursday and it was pretty low key. The next game against Foshina is when it got a little crazy. There was a lot of cheating going on by a guy and girl on the other team. In the tournament you had to win 3/5 games so they got to 2/2 and Colt's team ended up barely winning the last match over another controversial call. Those matches were definitely heated and there were some apologies afterwards!

Then for the championship game, Colt's team played Pritchard college. One of Colt's friends, Brock, was actually on this team. It wasn't as unfriendly as the one above, but it was exciting. It came down to the last match as well, and everyone was pretty sure in the last match that Colt's team was going to lose. All that was left were the girls on his team against all of the other team. Then one of the girls caught a ball and got Colt back in, then another guy got back in and it was a complete turnaround. Colt's team won in the last 20 seconds. Colt got one guy out, it bounced back and he caught it, then he threw it and pegged a girl in the head (by accident) for the last out. I got the very end of the game on video! It was a crazy ending!

This is his team, the Sprague's, after winning the championship game!

The team with their Coach, Scott, who is actually Colt's MS2 big sib.

Warming up

and doing their chant. They were pretty serious about it. They had their war paint and everything!

Colt and Jaron

 Colt actually ended up playing him on the second day.

Pics from during Wednesday's second game

They even broke a pinata on the court after winning.

Colt was probably talking strategy between matches!

His team after winning Wednesday night! Ryan played in the first game but wasn't able to play the second so he's missing from the team pic.

Getting their warpaint on before starting their games on Thursday

Of course Colt went and got in the middle of the other teams huddle

Ryan, Colt and Josh

Brock, he wasn't too happy

Team cheer after winning the championship!

If you notice gray on some of the pics, it's because after the last game on Thursday, I somehow deleted all the pics from the tournament off my camera except for maybe 6. Colt was not happy with me at all! I don't know how I even did it, but I did! He found a program to recover deleted pics from an SD card. He had to pay for i,t but he got almost all, if not all, of them back and only a few of them are messed up!