Date Added: 22-09-2005

Basketball camp in Belfast; what could be better?  Read the excerpt below:

Waldo Village Soup - ME,USA

By Doug Hufnagel
 

BELFAST (Sep 21, 2005): In the numerical argot of basketball, a "two" refers to one of the two guard positions. The other, the point guard, is the "one."

The point guard is the team quarterback; he directs the offense, distributing the ball to the other players. His (or her) role is to assist rather than score, while the two is the shooting guard, the big scorer and most often the taller player.

While the point guard is a more glamorous, high-profile position that high school, college and professional coaches of both men’s and women's teams are always looking to fill, the twos tend to be better-rounded players who can both rebound and (more importantly) defend the other team's highest-scoring guard.

My 11-year-old nephew will be a good two this winter, but this past Sunday I was watching him play soccer for some peewee team from Camden. With Little League baseball over in July and a round of summer sports camps behind him, fall is about scoring goals for a team that travels Sundays to far-flung places like Waterville and Farmington.

On this day, his father had driven him to Belfast while his mother was watching his younger brother play soccer in Camden. They were switching coverage later in the afternoon so his older brother could be taken by his father to football practice back in Camden. Sound confusing? It is. With three boys, it takes a complex network of parents, grandparents and friends to keep up with an endless daily round of practices and games.

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