We're here in Medford - had practices yesterday. The outside sheets were running very straight, more curl on the inside sheets. Ice speed was good, although it slowed down during the practice - maybe the pebble was wearing down - we'll have to watch that during the game.
The girls didn't get a good night's rest last night - baby Kevin just couldn't get comfortable. That's okay - we'll just play through it.
In about 20 min we'll head to the club for the opening ceremony and then games at 1 and 7.
At 1pm we face Minnesota - this is essentially the same rink that was at mixed last year (just a different lead) - the Stolts. They played well last year and should be a contender for the final four this year (last year they lost the tiebreak to make it into the final four). We lost to them last year in a tight one during the round robin - but we weren't having a great game. So - revenge this year...
At 7pm we face Illinois. We haven't played this team before - but we played Russ Armstrong (the skip) when mixed was at Medford the last time. We had a really tight game against them (I think we went to an extra end) and won it - I think it was mostly because we unveiled our "slow walk" during that game :). Russ still talks about it. It's a secret weapon we pull out when a rock is travelling too fast. Worked that game...
Well - we're ready - hopefully everything will come together for us!
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