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| Caroline Palmer stretches before the earlier game, her first one for varsity basketball. (Photo by Ed Piper) |
Caroline Palmer, a 5'7" newcomer to La Jolla's varsity basketball team, enjoyed the support and adulation of a whole entourage of relatives on her team's first day of play in the new season.
"We're all here for her," said her grandmother, Marge Palmer, sitting in a small bleacher section filled with 10 or so relatives on the sideline of Court #2 in the Coronado High gym late Friday afternoon, Nov. 23.
Two cousins, sisters who said they participate in gymnastics, came with their family from the Chicago area Monday and had plane tickets to fly home Saturday.
"We went to the mountains," said one. Her grandmother clarified that they had visited Julian. They knew that Julian is renowned for its apple pie. "It wasn't snowy, but it was cold," one of the sisters said of the visit to East County.
Another cousin, a middle school student at Meadowbrook in Poway, brought a nice DSLR camera, and Marge, with her own DSLR, was coaching him on what ISO (light sensitivity) setting and shutter speed would be appropriate to photograph the basketball game in the relatively dark Islander gym.
The entourage, which came only for the second of the two games Friday, missed Caroline's 13 points to lead Coach Darice Carnaje's team in the earlier contest, a two-point loss to Parker.
But Marge and company got to witness the thrilling nightcap, which saw Palmer's team come from 16 points back in the third quarter to win on a last-second shot.
Caroline, though unpolished in basketball, showed good aggressiveness as a starter and fought for numerous loose balls. The sophomore was active and moving. Her obvious athleticism was undoubtedly appreciated by her coach, Carnaje.
Family members seemed pleased at the game result, and were surprised to hear that Caroline, who played in the Viking volleyball program last year but didn't make the team this year, was the leading scorer for her team in the opener.
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