We were all in room 9, we were all so nervous for our game. All of us went in the cars with Matua Fou and Whaea Marie, Whaea Maxine and Taylor’s parents.

We knew that we were versing the champions from last year, that’s why we were full of nerves.

The game began and we did play very good we were up by 3 but we didn’t want to take that for granted, we wanted to keep it that way.

The second quarter started and we started off very good, the passing was so bad it was either too high or too low, and our points dropped. The quarter ended and than Matua Fou gave us a pep talk to encourage us.

Beep! The buzzer went off for the third quarter and all the girls were so defeated and you could tell by their faces that we already lost. It was so bad and we never play like that, everyone just looked so defeated and I felt so bad because I knew we could do better. The quarter ended and the girls huddled in a circle we all looked defeated and Matua Fou tried to encourage us as much as he could for the next quarter.

The last quarter began and we already felt like we lost by our faces and the way everyone played. Everyone just gave up I guess, we could of did so good but we didn’t because we all just gave up.

We all recovered and took the lost as good losers and than we went away and learnt from it.