The Life Skill students from the high school and junior high played a basketball game against the White House life skills students Wednesday in the LHS Auxiliary gym. Both the high school and junior high students won their games against White House 28-8 and 24-2 respectively.
“Just allowing the students to have fun and play against other people is great,” high school special education teacher Ronnie Nicks said. “It’s giving them the opportunity to play that game of basketball like any other kids.”
The high school students prepared for the game by practicing every day in their physical education (P.E.) class with coaches Ronnie Nicks, Conner Boyette, and Christy Bateman to improve and work on dribbling skills and shooting skills. The junior high students practice during their P.E. class on their own skills as well as offensive and defensive maneuvers with coach Sandy Norrell.
“The students improve every day,” Nicks said. “It shows with them shooting better, dribbling better, and most of all having fun.”
To warm up, the high school and junior high students played a pre game against each other. The game’s first half was tied 10-10, and ended with a 24 to 16 point win for the high school students.
“I am so excited that the students are getting to play,” Norrell said. “ It’s fun to see all those things we have been working on be implemented into a game situation.”
The High school game began with 6 to nothing in the first quarter, and by half time Lindale had a score of 16 against White House’s score of 4. The third quarter score was 24 Lindale and 4 White House, and ended with a Lindale victory of 28 to 8.
“We look forward to meeting our friends in competition,” Bateman said. “The students get a great sense of work hard, play hard, and having fun.”
The junior high game started with a score of 4 Lindale to 2 White house, and by the second quarter the score was 10 to 2 with Lindale winning. By the end of the game Lindale had won with an amassed 24 points, and White House finished with 2.
“I think the whole game was great,” Norrell said. “We got to see the other competition and then work on things that we need to work on from that.”
