Warriors into 2nd Round

Hello Warriors fans!!! Well yesterday was a great day for our team as we were able to pull out a win against an excellent Metro St. ball club. The team was excited with the win but also has refocused as they understand we have another challenge tonight against Augustana. Well here is log of yesterday's travels.

8:00 am - Wake up call, we decided to not use our shoot around time at 7:00 in the morning. We felt it was important for our guys to get a little extra sleep and we felt after our practice the day before our guys were ready to go and so we didn't need to get up so early for a shoot around.

8:15 - Breakfast, pregame meal down stairs at the buffet. Food was okay but nothing great once again. The one nice thing is we don't have to leave the building for breakfast like we do at many other places on the road.

10:00 - Load the bus to go over to SMSU for the game. Guys focused and ready to go.

10:35 - Walk through and shoot around in SMSU volleyball gym. Since we didn't use our shoot around time at 7:00 am we were able to use a shoot around time at 10:35 instead but just not on the main floor. This works well as many of our guys before our home games like to get into Talbot gym for shots and stretching so this is close to a regular warm up for a home game.

11:30 - Guys leave the locker room and take the floor for pregame warm ups.

12:00 - Tip off against Metro St.

1:45 - Final horn sounds as we pull of a 60-59 victory.

2:30 - After the guys are done talking with all the friends, family and fans who came out to watch the game they head over for some lunch at Arby's.

3:30 - Team is back and now watching the St. Cloud St./Auggie game. The game is starting to get close after Auggie has a 18 point lead early in the second half.

4:15 - St. Cloud and Auggie game is over. What a finish as Auggie throws the ball with 2.8 seconds left to the top of their three point line to there big man, who then pass the ball over to their best shooter who knocks down a three. The guy was able to get his feet set and had a great look as a St. Cloud guy went to the basket instead of staying right on him. Unreal ending to a great game.

4:30 - Guys head back to the hotel for some rest before going back over to our new favorite spot Applebee's. Don't think I will be going to an Applebee's for a while after this trip is over but hey not a lot of options out here so we will take what we can get. I think the guys really like the 2 for $20 deal because they get the boneless buffalo wings. I had the wings as well they are okay but no where as good as Buffalo Wild Wings.

6:30 - Time for dinner is pushed back as the guys head over to watch the SMSU/Northern game first and then head over to Applebee's. SMSU dominates the entire game as Northern is just not hitting anything.

7:45 - After the game everyone is over at Applebee's for dinner. Place is packed, service is pretty slow as it take at least an 1 1/2 hours for the food.

9:30 - Head back over to the gym to watch the 2nd half of the Mankato/Fort Lewis game. Mankato is up 45-35 at halftime but take total control in the 2nd half and walk away with an easy win.

11:00 - Lights out and off to bed as we get ready for another huge game and day.

Well that was our Saturday out here pretty much in a nut shell. Everything has been great so far as the set up of the gym is great, the people working are great and all the fans have been great. We are really happy with the win against Metro as they are a very very good team. I felt our key to the game was our patience with the zone and working for a great shot. Early in the game we rushed a couple looks but settled down and really did some nice things. On the defensive side our guys did a good job for the most part containing their man and making them work for good shots. Our one problem again was rebounding and we must do a better job of that tonight or we are going to get killed. Auggie is a great team with a lot of different weapons and we must make them work for everything they get. Hopefully our guys are rested and ready to go for another great challenge.

Unitl next time, GO WARRIORS!!!!!!!!!