Aha….and you thought you’d just get away with reading about this up top in the “This Just In” section! In your DREAMS!! You know how we do it on this site. We’re talking about the SGV Aloha Challenge Tourney, October 15th-16th at the American Sports Center in Anaheim.
Dude--this weekend? It all just felt strange. Maybe because it was the very first tourney of the season after only two days of practice – neither of which our normal squad was present; I don’t know. Or…was it because all the boys galloped their mini-muscular frames all up and through Magic Mountain from early afternoon to late evening on Saturday (after playing the day’s games). Okay. Have you ever walked around Magic Mountain—through the hills (especially on the way up to the Superman ride—it’s a killer) and up all the stairs and such? It’s like marathon training. If you are not in shape going, you will be in shape when you leave. GUARANTEED.
On top of that, the boys had a morning game on Sunday after all that on Saturday. Life hasn’t changed. Everybody’s still half-dead in the mornings—including me. Oh well…it doesn’t matter. The boys are warming up in these first few tourneys and preparing for all that is yet to come. Fine; let them. We want all bonehead mistakes and kinks to surface NOW, before the core season kicks in.
So, in a nutshell, CAVS 13U racked up two wins and two losses during the weekend. On Saturday, CAVS 13U defeated the 14U Monrovia Mountaineers 49-12 and then lost to the 14U OC Panthers (GOSH, what a difference a year or two in age makes!!) 52-29.
On Sunday, CAVS 13U encountered the 14U Santa Clarita Playmakers (in the morning game) and lost 46-33 (not as bad as the first loss). That afternoon, with the blood flowing through their brains again and the sleep out of their eyes, CAVS 13U gained the second win of the weekend against 14U Vegas Elite Black, 47-17.
THE WEEKEND IN REVIEW: The SGV organization was well-organized and I liked the revised Sports Center. It wasn’t either of their faults that the women’s bathroom yielded raw, putrid vapors (100 times worse than the men’s) strong enough to lay a Budweiser horse flat, separately crumple the paint off the walls and whittle all the sheet rock down. JEEZ. You’ve got to be kidding me. Did NO ONE use their bathrooms at home the night before? Let’s just say that somebody had to be suffering from early digestion reversals. For real.
Attendees, for the most part, were calm. The Lakers’ Ron Artest (Ron-Ron—I mean Metta World Peace—or should I just say Metta-Metta? World-World? MWP? I don’t know….WTH?) graced a few benches there, during the weekend, with Laker fans craning their necks for unauthorized glimpses at him. Everyone saw him clearly when he stood up, though, towering over the masses.
We won’t rehash the parking—you know what it is. There were a few “issues” concerning the refs (re: bad calls during the games) but nothing anyone couldn’t handle (with a few warnings). Other than that, the event seemed to be civil while we were there.
NEXT STOP….CAVS 13U vs. 14U teams once again at the Monrovia Mountaineers Premier Halloween Tournament, October 22nd-23rd. You ready? GAME ON!!!
Check out this weekend’s tourney photos on our Facebook site right HERE.
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