South Warren Sweeps Drakes

Drakes Creek 7th and 8th grade volleyball teams fell to South Warren Monday evening.  The 7th grade team lost in 3 sets.  After losing 12-25 in the first set, Drakes won the second set 26-24 before dropping the tie breaker 13-15.  South Warren had not lost a set in 7th or 8th grade district games since 2011.  The 8th grade team fell 10-25, 10-25 and is now 4-5 on the year.  The rematch will be Thursday, September 19.     

Drakes VB - 7th Grade Wins, 8th Grade Falls

The Drakes Creek 7th grade volleyball team moved to 2-0 on the year with a 25-20, 25-7 win against Bowling Green Junior High on Thursday.  The 8th grade team fell to 4-4 with a 15-25, 20-25 loss.  Annee played pretty well, particularly in the 7th grade game.  Unfortunately, I did not end up with any good pictures.  Drakes will take on South Warren on Monday evening.  Last year South Warren 7th and 8th grade teams did not lose a set in conference play. 

Drakes Creek Sweeps Moss Middle; Hayden Runs Time Trial

Drakes Creek opened their conference schedule Tuesday with a sweep over Moss.  They won the 7th grade match 25-8 and 25-11 and the 8th grade team won 25-12 and 25-16.  Annee will be playing for both the 7th and 8th grade teams this season.  Drakes plays Bowling Green Junior High on Thursday.  Hayden ran the Greenwood Time Trial that was postponed from Saturday morning.  He ran the 2k in about 8:45.  Greenwood's home course is a bit faster than most of the CC courses in the county but it was a pretty good time for him.  Hayden is scheduled to have a couple of races next week including a youth challenge on Tuesday and the Raider Twilight Run next Saturday.  Football has also started for Hayden.  He is playing for the Ravens again.   

Hayden making his final push.

Annee & Heather before heading to the game against Moss.

A Full Saturday

We had a pretty full Saturday.  Annee (and Heather) made her middle school debut for Drakes Creek at the South Warren Volleyball Tournament.  Drakes Creek finished 3-3 in the tournament and tied for 5th out of 15 teams.  Most of the teams were 8th grade teams, so Drakes had one of the younger teams.  Most of the time it was about half and half between 8th graders and 6th/7th graders.  Annee played well.  They will scrimmage Franklin-Simpson on Tuesday before starting their conference schedule the next week.  I will work on doing a better job getting pictures next match.  Hayden and his cross country team participated in an race for elementary and middle school students early in the morning.  It poured until the scheduled start time but they were able to get the race in.  Elementary runners ran 2k (which they will run in most of the their meets).  Hayden did quite well.  He finished in 9:30 and finished 20th overall.  He will run in the team time trials on Saturday.  He will start football practice on Monday the 19th.  Finally, I wrapped up the evening with this years Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner.  We had a pretty good schedule and crowd.  U.S. Senators Rand Paul & Mitch McConnell both attended, along with our local Congressman - not a bad lineup for a county event.   

Annee (#10) between games at the South Warren Volleyball Tournament

Hayden crossing the finish line.

Hayden and his buddies after the race.

Senator McConnell addressing the Lincoln Reagan Day Dinner Crowd

6th Graders!!

We are going to try to restart the blog.  Heather, Annee, and Hayden had their first day of school Thursday.  This will be the last first day that they have at Briarwood.  Below are a couple of pictures form the first day.  Fall is going to be pretty busy.  Annee is playing and Heather is helping to coach volleyball for Drakes Creek Middle School.  They play in a tournament on Saturday.  Once volleyball wraps up, she will restart swimming.  Hayden is running cross country and will be playing football.  Hayden ran in an intrasquad Beat the Coach meet last Saturday and will run in another race this Saturday.  Football practice will start a week from Monday.

First Day of School

Annee & Mrs. Sellers

Hayden & Mrs. Davis

Heather Turns 40!!

The big event of this past weekend was celebrating Heather's 40th birthday.  We had approximately 65 folks (adults and children) over for drinks and desserts on Saturday.  For the most part, folks were pretty well behaved!  Although, the weather wasn't perfect, we did luck out.  It got even colder on Sunday and Monday when we were blessed with hail and snow flurries.  While Saturday was Heather's big day, she didn't get to have it all to herself.  We spent the morning in Edmonson County for the regional academic competition.  The Briarwood quick recall team tied for 5th out of the 8 teams who made it to regionals.  Earlier in the week, Hayden was selected as the Leader of the Month for his class.  Annee was named Leader of the Month in the Fall.  This week we have an art show and Annee's first volleyball tournament with BRAVO.

Triple Threat Falls in Semi-Finals

Sunday did not go as well as Saturday for Triple Threat in their rematch against the Tennessee Heat.  Triple Threat went into halftime with a one point lead but things fell apart in the second half.  Our boys never adjusted to the quickness of the TN Heat.  We are not sure when the next tournament will be, but hopefully they will play at least one in April. 

A&H Turn 11

A&H Birthday Week has finally come to a close.  Since they had their parties last weekend, we had a relatively low key celebration on Friday.  A&H opened presents, ate cupcakes and went out for dinner at the Buckhead Cafe.  We then snuck in a nap while watching Life of Pi.  Annee wrapped up her short course swim season last Sunday (March 10th).  Since the state meet started on March 15th, she had to qualify as an 11 year old for the meet.  One day made all the difference between qualifying for almost all events or qualifying for none.  She had a pretty good final meet lowering times in three of the four events she swam.  She missed qualifying in the 50 Fly by 0.08 seconds.  The long course swim season begins after Spring Break.  Not going to Lexington for state swim made it much easier for everyone to get to Hayden's Triple Threat basketball tournament in Franklin, Kentucky.  Triple Threat split their two games in pool play this afternoon.  After losing to Franklin-Simpson 39-32 in their first game, they bounced back to defeat the Tennessee Heat 40-33.  Hayden played pretty well scoring 4 in the first game and 6 in the second.         

11!!

Tip off of the Triple Threat versus Franklin-Simpson Game

Birthday Celebrations Continue

Friday night is Hayden's turn to host his birthday sleepover.  He has seven friends over but only six will get to spend the full night.  We are hoping that they might fall asleep a bit earlier than the girls did last night.  Hayden requested hot dogs and hamburgers for his meal and donuts for breakfast.  

Notice that the birthday boy is not wearing glasses.  He went to the eye doctor with his mom this morning!!

Birthday Season Begins

Birthday season has begun with Annee hosting a sleepover for five of her friends this evening.  The girls have had pizza and cookie cake.  Hopefully movie time will start soon.  Tomorrow night will be Hayden's turn.

 

March Madness

Tuesday was March Madness at Briarwood.  March Madness is the annual basketball game where Briarwood teachers play teachers from another school.  This year Briarwood beat Plano 19-17.  Heather scored 4 points including the first bucket of the game and made a steal with about 8 seconds left.  Hayden also participated in the festivities by doing some face painting before the game started.  Annee missed most of the fun due to BRAVO practice.  She has started having practice two days a week and will have her first tournament at the end of March.

Taking his job very seriously!

Hail to the victors!

Briarwood Academic Team Advances to Regional Meet

Briarwood's Academic Quick Recall team placed 2nd in the District meet Saturday to advance to the Regional meet on March 23rd.  Annee and Hayden also advanced as individuals and will compete at Regions as well.  Annee placed 4th in Composition, while Hayden placed 2nd in Social Studies.  Overall, Briarwood placed 2nd at the District.