Village Basketball

This is not exactly what you'd call a hoppin' town when it comes to night life. Last night, the big event in town was the junior high basketball game. Basketball is huuuuuuuuuuuuuge up here. It's a sport that can be played indoors year round (or outdoors... I've seen kids shooting around on the ice that currently covers the village), and for some reason it's really caught on here.

Anyway, our junior high team is a coed one. Many of the villages have coed teams. Three girls, five boys. Both of the visiting teams had coed teams... one had two girls on their team and one had four. Basically, what you do is, depending on the gender ratios of the teams playing, decide how many girls and boys will be on the court at a given time.

Game 1: Quinhagak vs. Eek. We (Quin) one easily.
Game 2: Kongiganak vs Eek. Kong won easily.
Game 3: Quinhagak vs Kongiganak. Kong won by 7 points. Exciting game, but while our players matched theirs in athleticism, we just had a much younger (therefore smaller) team than they did.

Crowd participation was amazing. even during the Kong vs Eek game, everyone stayed, watched, and cheered... even though no spectators made the trips from either village. Eek is pretty close to our village, so I'd say that the crowd was more pro-Eek, but exciting plays from both teams got loud cheers.