Chulucanas Anniversary Basketball Tournament

June 17th & 19th, 2008 La Encantada, Peru

Chulucanas Anniversary Basketball Tournament

This week is the anniversary of Chulucanas so there are all kinds of parades and other types of activities. Our team participated in the 4 team anniversary tournament. We won the first game pretty easily but the championship game was one of the most fun games I have played in here in Peru. Since there was a S/. 300 prize for the winning the team, I think the game was more intense than usual. We started the game down 12-2 and were down by as much as 14 points the first half. Our fans were quite nervous because this is not a position we usually find ourselves in.

With as little as 6 minutes left we were still down by as much as 9 points. After a good run we took our first lead of the game with a minute and a half left to play. We were up by 6 points but after a few mistakes they had cut the lead to 3 points with 30 seconds to play. A botched 3 pointer and a free throw on our end gave us a 4 point victory.

There was a mini victory presentation in front of the 400 or so fans where they presented a trophy half as tall as I. After a couple rounds of photos we headed to the president of the club´s house for a case of beer. They made me give the toast since I will be leaving soon.