CAVS 12U Win AVAC Hoyas Tourney

Don’t be mad at me. I SO love all of our CAVS divisions. However, everyone has a specialty area. Mine is in 12U. It’s where I live and breathe, and after each game I tend to post what I’ve experienced quickly. So, with that said….

…here I go.

CAVS 12U is certainly kicking off 2011 with a bang. Congratulations 12U for winning the AVAC Hoyas Tourney this weekend in Lancaster!!!! They did it again, for a second consecutive weekend--two championships in a row!!! 

And it goes a little somethin’ like this…..

On Saturday, CAVS 12U was supposed to face off first with Vegas Elite.  Pools were changed and 12U ended up with the Mountaineers for their 5:00pm game. 12U won that game, 65-10.

 12U continued on to battle the Franklin Eagles at 7:00pm and won 50-25, placing them in the final rounds for Sunday. 

 The final rounds on Sunday began pretty much the same as Saturday, with CAVS winning against the AVAC Hoyas, 53-16.

 The real action began when CAVS 12U found themselves back in the saddle once again, with Vegas Elite. Remember, we just battled it out with them at OUR Holiday Classics, where we brought home the championship? It was intense, then. Needless to say, Vegas Elite probably wanted our heads. Stress was high and tempers were flaring, from coaches to parents, to referees. You would have thought folks had MONEY on that game.

I’m not a fan of all the drama. I just love basketball and LOVE to see the youth get down with it….but some people were BORN slappable. NOT speaking on any one person in particular (or from any particular team). I’m just sayin’.

Oh yeah, and is it JUST ME, or do they NOT TEACH what a doggoned JUMP STOP is in ref school? Seriously--because if they DO teach it, refs always seem to develop amnesia about the subject when it comes to us. All I know is that we consistently get called for traveling when we do perfectly clean jump stops. Jeez.

Anyway…..

The ball “don’t” lie…..Vegas Elite came to play….but so did CAVS 12U. The battle was ON----tit for tat. However, CAVS 12U turned their heat dial up just a LITTLE hotter and garnered the evening victory over Vegas Elite, 33-27. 


Congrats to Chasen Pender, who received the main first place team trophy (you know…the one about three feet tall) for all of his efforts this weekend. Our other boys were fire, but Chasen was a towering inferno.  WE SEE YOU, CHASEN PENDER!! 

Shouts out to 12U’s Coach Darryl, who after 20 years of winning tournaments (and who probably has to rent out the Staples Center if he wants to actually display all of his championship trophies) is handing them to whatever player that exhibited their very best efforts in the overall tourney. GREAT idea, coach!!

We are more than proud of our 12U Boys!! Two championships in a row under their belts for 2011!! Way to get the brand new year rolling! To be honest, CAVS 12U players are still “shaking the dust off” and are in “practice mode”. They haven’t really even gotten STARTED yet.

Wait until they DO.  Scary.

 

GO CAVS 12U!!!!

GAME ON!!! CAVS 2011…..u ready?

 

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