Well fans, it's been a long, tough week of basketball for us. Since the last time I checked in we've played UNCG, College of Charleston and Appalachian State.

We'll start with Greensboro. Most of you may know about Ali Ford's dramatic finish to this game, but you’re in for a treat if you don’t. The entire game was a battle, and in the second half we found ourselves down by 11 points with ten minutes or so to go. We forge a tremendous comeback into the last minute of the game. Everyone stepped up and made key plays down the stretch. With about a minute or so to go we're down three. We come down, run a play, nobody's open. Lei Lei Hairston gets the ball starts to drive sees that the girl is way off, steps back and nails the three. Tie ball game. They have the ball with less than 30 seconds and they try to run the clock down for a last second shot, but with our pressure and defense we force a travel. We take the ball out of bounds with six seconds or so. Throw it in, gets tipped out of bounds by Greensboro. Throw it in again with about five seconds, Ali (from behind half court), takes the ball the length of the court and right before my eyes I witnessed her tiny little body jump from nearly the free throw line, scoop under her defender and BANK, it's good! Buzzer sounds! We win!!! The rush of adrenaline was unlike anything I've ever felt. We had an enormous cheering section, so thank you to everyone that came out! You truly made a difference.

If that wasn't exciting enough for you how does an overtime game sound? We figured our fans would enjoy that... (insert sarcasm here). The following Saturday (we played UNCG on Wednesday) we played College of Charleston at home. We were again behind by  11 points with about three minutes to go. Fortunately, we had Julie Taylor and Ali Ford knock down key shots to put us back in the game. I'll save you all the drama, but instead of us having the ball in the final seconds of play CofC had the ball with 12.7 seconds to go. Luckily Charleston was not able to score in those final seconds and we continued the game into overtime. We outscored them 9-2 in overtime and sealed the second thrilling victory of the week.

If anything was learned from those two games it was how to be tough, not only physically, but also mentally, down the stretch. I was extremely proud of the way we finished those two games and managed to pull out a win. In the end, it’s only W's and L's. Sometimes it may not be pretty, but as long as you get the job done that's all that matters. The Appalachian game taught us that as well. Even though we were down, we never stopped fighting. Unfortunately, we weren't victorious in that battle, but lessons with be learned and we will move on to the next one... but we did have quite the fan section for this game, faces painted and all!

Hope to see everyone at EDUCATION DAY on Thursday at 11 a.m.!!! Have a great rest of the week!

- Big Kelsey