Happy New Year, everyone!

I know it's been awhile since my last entry, but now that we're back in the swing of things with classes I'm ready to get started again.  We finished 2008 with an overall record of 10-1, ending the year with a victory at home against Dominican.  This put us in the middle of winter break, with many games ahead of us.  We traveled to Bentley to improve to 11-1, and then had two back-to-back wins at home against Molloy and St. Anselm.  It was then time to get back on the road, where we traveled to Syracuse, NY, to face Lemoyne College, where we suffered our second loss of the season.

Coming back from Lemoyne it was time for second semester classes to begin.  With winter break being shorter this year, it seemed as though we had just finished finals when we were all starting new classes.  We started this week with a couple of tough practices to prepare ourselves for Wednesday night's game against St. Michael's.  We defeated St. Michael's 67-56 to improve to 14-2, securing the first place spot in our league by one game.

I have to take you back a few weeks when we went on the road to play at Adelphi right before Christmas.  We left campus on December 21, in the middle of Massachusetts' worst snowstorm of the year.  Any story that starts out like this is bound to be memorable, but it wasn't the weather that got in our way.  After a long bus ride, which took much longer than it should have taken, we arrived in Long Island to have dinner at one of Coach Brown's friend's houses. 

Now I have to take a minute to set the scene for everyone.  Coach's friend lives in an enormous apartment building, and unfortunately she lives on the sixth floor.  As the 18 of us stood at the doors of the elevator waiting for them to open, someone had the idea for all of us to get into the same elevator.  When I say all of us, I am referring to all 14 players, our three coaches and our trainer.  We piled into the elevator and the elevator started to go up.  We jumped off the first floor, zipped over the second floor, snuck by the third floor, climbed past the fourth floor, crawled up to the fifth floor, and then ....

We stopped! Unfortunately the elevator filled with 18 people was not able to make it up to the sixth floor, but was instead stuck halfway between the fifth and sixth floors.  At this point the laughter in the elevator suddenly ceased, as one by one we realized we had not made it quite to the destination. 

As coach's friend and her family stood waiting at the elevator on the sixth floor, they realized that the Stonehill Skyhawks weren't going to quite make it to their living room.  About five minutes later, after what seemed like a half hour, we were helped out of the elevator one by one.  We then continued on to have a wonderful dinner, and lots of Christmas fun!