Our Final Four

Jess and I are off on a road trip this morning.......w/ 1/2 the town... We're all headed to watch our High School boy's basketball team play for the state championship.  What an amazing feat for little ole MCS.  This coaching staff has helped direct our basketball teams to a divisional championship 3 out of the last 4 years.....  A pretty big deal!!!! The team will play Lake George tonight at the Glens Falls Civic Arena. If you put their achievements to date into perspective, it's quite extraordinary.  There are 697 school districts in NYS.  We are one of FOUR playing for championship state rights....WOW!

Yesterday the team left town on a Booster Club and donation funded charter bus.  They were led by firetrucks and followed by local law enforcement.  The homes and businesses throughout town were dressed in blue and white and the streets were lined with fans and signs.  The elementary school students had worked hard making signs of encouragement and yelling cheers of admiration and spirit.  Both schools allowed the kids to line the street from one school to another and give the team a hero's send off.

I still marvel at the thought that a small school's basketball team can bond a community and make it an even better place to live but I shouldn't be surprised.....it's HOME!

Good Luck tonight Blue Devils and if you shouldn't bring in a victory, no worries, you're already CHAMPIONS to us!