Sunday, November 22, 2009

True Underdog Story


So in the youth program the have a shield up for grabs at every competition there is. For example, kart racing, boat sailing, etc. For my boys all of this was to much effort and time so we would always get smoked or not have anything at all. (this was previous to me being in the calling). So a challenge came up i was sure we were going to win cos of our Polynesian influence it was Volleyball. Comes to the day and all our stars are pulling out left right and center. I discussed with my councilor weather we still have it or attend. We decide to ring around as many boys as we can and get 5 together. Now these 5 are not the athletic type but if all else failed we still go a feed lol. So to start off the day we win our first 2 and like many things pride comes before the fall, because we loose our next 6 lol. There is always rival wards and ours is takapuna. In the round Robbins they beat us twice and in the last game we didn't even score a point. So they call it a day and get into the championship rounds. So we are in the bottom championship, but a championship nonetheless and who is in it none else but takapuna, and high biscus ward. To its taka vs high biscus taka smashes them 2-0 (best out of 3). We were up now we had a tactic we put our best two servers next to each other because if they didn't win us the game it was all over. So the first game we got smoked and the boys spirits were down. But our tactic worked in the second game and we came back from 6-1 down to win 6-8. The buzzer went and breakfast was ready. i go to the boys do you want a draw or you want to go away champions. They all agreed to play on. Taka was up 5-1 and our 2nd best server won us a point then lost us a point so it was 6-2 with no good servers left so we thought. The out of nowhere comes Fredricko who did these serves that were like sky rockets Taka had no reply and the come back began 6-3 6-4 6-5 6-6 6-7 this was turning into the come back from narrm. This was match point Fredricko serves another sky rocket taka hits it once hits it twice and on the 3rd hit butches it and the crowd went wild Aeroview had done it they made the comeback and were champions. Man i was loving it i was going around giving high fives to everyone the boys were parting like it was 1999. Taka went of all bummed and we were champs. It had to be one of the most successful times in the young mens program and one i will never forget. I was so proud of them and they did our youth proud.

2 comments:

Melissa said...

Man Haydn that's awesome.
Man I wish I was there.
Good on you guys.
I'm glad you blogged about it.
NIce work.

Jessie said...

GOOOOOOOOOO HHHHAAAAAAYYYYYYYDDDDDDNNNNNNNN! A whole 1 comment.
Damn it now I made two!