Sports Updates

May 20th, 2007 Chulucanas, Peru

Sport Liberal reaches Copal Peru

La Encantada has a soccer team which plays in the league in Chulucanas. Peru has a competition called Copal Peru (Peru Cup). The teams begin as little town teams and keep playing until the championship which takes the winner into the national professional league. Our team beat out 7 other teams in from Chulucanas to advance to the next round. This is a big deal because La Encantada is a poor village of 3,500 people while Chulucanas is mostly a middle income town of 40,000.

Today we played the first game of the round robin and won 3-2. Everyone is pretty excited but we still have to win one or two more to advance to the next round robin.



May 19th, 2007 Chulucanas, Peru

Host Family Attends the Big Game

I have been playing in a basketball league in Chulucanas on Wednesdays and Saturdays. A couple of Saturdays my host sister and her husband attended my game and had a good time, although we won 104 to 24. This time I promised them a more competitive game because we lost the first time by 6 points. This time around, my host parents, sister and her husband and 3 other friends came to watch. This is slightly a big deal for them because they have to pay to get to La Encantada and contract a mototaxi because we wouldn’t be returning until 1 AM.

The intensity was fierce because there is a huge rival between us and our opponents. We have a new post player, which is great because it means I get to play guard like I did in high school. Although I only scored 8 points after 40 minutes of straight playing time, I ended up with 11 assists and we won by more than 30 points. Everyone from La Encantada had a really good time and we all traveled back to town after midnight.