Chapter 49:

The Angels practice:

The Angels practice was pretty light today.  Coach Sandy has them walk through a few plays they’ll need to concentrate on to beat their next opponent.  They each shoot 25 free throws after running 10 laps around the gym.

“Ok ladies I want the starters against the second team.  Play hard for one hour.  Keep score.  The losing team will do suicides before leaving today.”

There are a number of groans from some of the second string players who have come close, but have yet to beat the starters in practice.

They have been playing for about twenty minutes with the score 16 – 10.  Tina and the rest of the starters were ahead.  Tina is being guarded by Janet.  

The doors opened and in walks Bette, casually dressed in her Stanford practice gear.  Janet takes her eyes off the ball briefly, as she is distracted by their unexpected visitor.  Tina took the opportunity to blow past Janet and head to the basket and stopped 1 foot outside of the paint for a quick jumper, which she hit.

After making the shot, Tina looks over at the bleachers and sees her sight for sore eyes girlfriend, staring back at her.

“Janet, you feel like playing any defense today?”  Coach yelled at the guard as she came back down the court after being burned on defense.

“Yeah Janet, stop looking at Bette and try to keep up.”  Tina whispered slightly annoyed.
“Oh come on Tina, I’m just looking.”  Janet responded while following Tina around the court as she moves without the ball.  Tina catches the ball on the wing and tells Janet she should be playing not drooling over her girlfriend.

“Tina you’re going to have to get used to it.  She is in college.  You know how many hot women are on college campuses?”  This seemed to get to Tina a bit and she tried to dribble behind her back to allude her defender but Janet was able to steal the ball.  She headed to the other end with Tina close on her heals.  The freshman was so concerned with Tina’s pursuit that she missed an easy lay up.

“Oh come on Janet.  You can’t let your defender’s footsteps scare you into missing an easy lay up!”  Coach Sandy was yelling exasperated at the freshman’s lack of focus.  She walks over and regards her former star who is smiling at her.