Kelsey Evans Blog - Some Like to Call Me the Bed Check Enforcer

Written by Elon Phoenix on 9:43 AM

Hi fans!

This week's blog comes after a week of tough basketball for our team. We took a tough loss from Virginia Tech on the road, but battled back on Sunday afternoon against Coastal Carolina for a win. We went 1-1 this week, and are 3-1 overall, which is a fantastic start to our season.

I'll start by discussing our heartbreaking loss to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg on Thursday night. I'm pretty sure I can speak for our entire team when I say we were fired up about competing against an ACC opponent like Virginia Tech on Thursday. Last year when we went to Blacksburg we didn't play as well as we originally hoped, losing to them 82-46. This year, it was a much different game. At the half, we led 33-30, and came out strong in the second half going up 10 points in the first few minutes (41-31). With 2:51 left the score was tied at 59-all, but unfortunately the Hokies went on a 14-7 run in the last few minutes giving them the 73-66 win. They were a very big and athletic team and I have to give them credit for the way they played down the stretch. I was very proud of the way we performed that night. It was a learning game for us. Thus far in the season we have never been in a close match like that with less than three minutes to play. That loss stung...a lot, but I feel like it will ultimately help us in the long run. After looking over the game we realized what we did wrong and should've done differently. Lessons have been learned, and even though it seems easy to dwell on something like that, we had no time to dry our metaphoric tears because we had a tough team in Coastal Carolina coming into our gym on Sunday.

Coastal Carolina came ready to play Sunday after a suffocating loss to North Carolina two nights before (93-37). Although we started off slow, it didn't take us too long to get rolling! Our pressure and up-tempo play gave us an edge as we took the win over the Chanticleers (BTW- does anybody know what that is? a bird of some sort?). Anyway, we had three people in double figures and it was refreshing to get a win at home after such a heartbreaker at Virginia Tech.  A big thanks to all the fans for coming out and helping us get the win!

Yes, games are always fun to talk about but I'm sure some of you are wondering what goes on outside of basketball. Well to be honest, our lives revolve mostly around basketball, but we do have quite a bit of fun along the way. It's a good thing none of us get along (insert sarcasm here).

Funny story, I know in the last blog I talked about how having two Kelsey's on one team may get a little confusing, but now I'm starting to get concerned because not only do we both look when someone calls our name, but we're dressing identical too. The freaky thing is, it's not on purpose. Same name = same brain? I think so (See picture below)!

Oh, and that's not all. Our mother's are even dressing the same to our game...This is getting weird! (picture below)


Funny story number two (I'm just spoiling you guys this week!). The night before our Coastal game, Julie Taylor, Ali Ford and I all had to make rounds and do "bed checks" just to make sure everyone was in by curfew. So we call Candice, who is a freshman this year, and ask her what suite they live in and she tells Ali they are in 203. Okay, I hear 203 and quickly walk up the stairs and I see a young man leaving the suite 203 so I yell to him "OH, OH HOLD THAT DOOR!" I realize Ali is a few steps behind me like she usually is and just go ahead and let her catch up. Well, as I'm walking down the hallway yelling "Kelsey! Candice! Kelly! Anybody home?!?!" I look and notice the name tags on the door that say, "Brenden, Sam, John, Ryan" but of course I notice this after about three of them have their door cracked looking at me like I'm the next person to end up in a Smith Jackson e-mail (Elon joke). I quickly realize the humiliating mistake I've made and RUN outside to find my good friend Ali just observing and laughing. I think my duty as the bed check enforcer has just been revoked.

Well, that's all I have for this week, hope to see everyone at our home game on Tuesday night against Virginia Intermont at 7 p.m. I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving, feel free to bring us any leftovers! You can usually find us in the gym!

- Big Kelsey