Silas Basketball - Winter Session

 ** Guest Blogger **

Eric Hendrickson

Game #1 - Saturday, January 18th 3:00

We started another session of YMCA basketball.  We have now been playing for over a year.

The competition isn't going to be great this session.  We have been playing up in age but this year the 12u/13u is combined.  I believe since middle school is currently in their basketball season, the 7th and 8th grade boys are not playing YMCA basketball.  We won this game easily 58-20.  Silas made a three and some free throws.

Game #2 - Saturday, January 25th 4:00

This was another easy win.  Silas was coming off a sickness so didn't play much.  We won 58-41 but it was closer than it should have been.

Game #3 -Tuesday, January 28th 5:30

We played against a big, athletic team.  I am told they are a pretty good football team.  Big and athletic doesn't mean they are skilled basketball players.  Silas started off the game with a made 3 pointer and then scored with a floater.  He was over his sickness, so was back to playing aggressive defense.  We won 38-23.

Game #4 - Saturday, February 1st 5:00

We played a pretty decent team this week called the Jags.  We played good basketball and won 60-41

Game #5 - Saturday, February 8th 3:00

We played the Jags again.  We were aggressive and our 1-3-1 half court trap was hard for the other team to break.  This was another easy win for us. Silas made a three and a few free throws.

Game #6 - Saturday, February 15th 3:00

This was a rematch against the aggressive football team.  We only had 5 players and they only had 5 players.  They started out the game up 10 points.  We were able to get them into foul trouble and they even subbed in a player from their 14u team.  We pulled away and ended up winning by 10.  #3 pushed Silas and received a technical foul.

Lindsee, Eric and Will were in attendance.  There also was a snowstorm during the game.

Game #7 - Tuesday, February 18th 7:30 (cancelled due to weather and rescheduled) Tuesday, February 25th

No pictures because Stacee was at the girls' basketball games.

This game was totally lopsided.  We had beaten this team by 40 the first game of the season and won this time by 70.  We tried to score 100 (not my idea) and ended up with 90.

Game #8 - Saturday, March 1st 3:00

This game was a forfeit.  Guessing they didn't want to play us after seeing the score of the last game we played.

End of Session Tournament

We were supposed to play a game on Monday night and a championship game on Wednesday.  Two of the teams forfeited so it was a three team tournament.  We played the Proskills team.  They did have some skills but were unable to keep up with us.  We won by 20.

Popee was there to see us win the Championship.

Next session should be more competitive because the middle school aged boys should be returning.  Good job Mambas with winning another Championship.