Chasing Woods
Chapter Nine
Investigation? For what? And why?
"Coach what is going on?" Cam asked. Coach spun around, you could tell he was fuming.
"We're are under investigation by the state tournament committe. They're investigating the fact that Woods shouldn't play because we have six boys now, unless we can prove it to be neccessary."
"WHAT?" Everyone screamed at the same time.
"But we need Woods."Josh said.
"Yeah our team wouldn't be what it is without her!" Fahey added.
"Everyone calm down. We have a week and a half to get this fixed and our story out."
"How are we gonna do that?" I asked.
"We live in a small town. And what does word do in a small town?" He asked all of us.
"Travel fast." Austin said. "I get it. The faster the story gets around here it might hit a higher authority and they could help us even more. Is that what your saying coach?"
"Thats exactly it Austin."
As much as I wanted to feel happy that we were going to get the story out I was distraught at the same time. We were a step closer and now I was the reason we might not get it now. I walked across the gym to the bleachers and plopped down. A few seconds later Cam was next to me.
"We're gonna get this fixed. We're not gonna do this without you."
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Every type of social media was used to talk about what was going on. And soon enough it reached the local news channel. They set up a day to come an interview us. We were going to do it during a practice so it seemed natural. They only talked to Coach Larson, Cam, Austin and me. It would be airing that night at six and ten and everyday until we were reinstated to the tournament. That night I was sitting on a couch wedged between Austin and Cam, I have no idea how we agreed to watch this together but we did.
"Shut up its on." FItz yelled.
"Our feature story tonight, comes from a local grade school, St. Johns home of the Braves and Bravette who are looking to make a run to the state tournament for basketball. Theres a very special thing about this basketball team though. The Braves have seven players on our team Cam Stabler, JR Medina, Josh Fisher, Brandon Fitzhenry, Joe Fahey, Austin Filbin, and the thing that makes this team so special, their seventh player, eighth grade girl Rielly Woods. We took a trip to the grade school to chat with the Coach and a few of the players."
Coach Larson's face appeared on the screen.
"Coach Kevin Larson, you were the one who brought Rielly on to the team?"
"Well it wasn't exactly my idea but I was good with going ahead with it. And its been a huge benefit for both the team and Rielly. It taught the team acceptance and Rielly is an even better basketball player from playing both teams. Now it would be nice if the state committee would be as accepting as these boys have."
Then the it panned over to Cam.
"I've been friend with Woods since like fourth grade. I'd be lying I said I wasn't worried about how things would got this year because guys hit their growth spurt and get faster and stuff but she's kept up with us the whole way. Our team wouldn't be where we are without her."
Now Austin was on the camera.
"It was different coming on to a team that had a girl. And I was a total jerk in the beginning but she didn't take any crap from me. She doesn't take any crap from anyone. She's fearless in the best way possible."
The it was me.
"I've just its all I've ever known. I wanted the boys to be able to have their team a few years ago and now I'm being punished for it. I don't see why its such a big deal anyways. Most teams are unthreatened by me. I'd give anything to get this shot with this team. We're good and we deserve this, its not fair we're under investigation."
Then they flashed a sign that anyone with any information to help was to contact Coach Larson immediately.
Who could of guessed things were about to go from bad to worse?
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