DCIAA Basketball Championships

This past Wednesday the DCIAA held their annual high school  basketball championships for both
 boys and girls at Howard University.  The girls played first at 6pm with the boys playing at 8pm.  For the girls, it was Dunbar vs. Anacostia with Anacostia taking home the trophy.  Something special happened during the game that I never thought I would ever see in person at a high school game.  I got to witness, for the first time, a high school player score 50 points!! Do you know how hard that is to accomplish on any level? It takes so much energy to score that many points.  What made it really special was that it happened during the girls game. Women's basketball often doesn't get the respect it deserves, and it was nice to see them show the crowd that girls basketball is just as good as the boys.  After the game, she received $1000 for being player of the game and she also won a couple of seasonal awards. Anacostia beat Dunbar in a blowout, that didn't matter as everyone in the audience was still having a good time.

For the boys, it was Wilson vs. Roosevelt with Wilson winning the title. I didn't stay for the whole game, but Wilson ended up beating Roosevelt by 12 points.  If you want to go check out some highlights or pictures from the games, you can look at the DCIAA instagram page @DCIAA.