2013 SAMS LDS volleyball tournament

Hi all hope you had a great Thanksgiving, ours was interesting, in the last 5 days our refrigerator died, we woke up the day we were going to have 20 some people over with no heat, the next day our water heater burst  half flooding our finished basement, and a pilot light went out on our other water heater, thus we had cold showers, but all is fixed or replaced and dried out, and we got an early Black Friday deal of a 32 inch, HD. Flat screen TV for $98, to replace the one damaged when we were struck by lightning last Summer. But believe me when I say we consider any disaster that doesn't require a trip to the hospital to be minor and yes we are counting our blessings.
  With that said, it is TOURNAMENT TIME
    We have had two late season additions to the tournament, TC2, the Hmong ward, didn't hear about the league until a few weeks ago so they took Cedar lake's place in the league and since we are all about participation we are letting them into the tournament. The second wild card team is maple Grove young men, with won the boys tournament for the third straight year when the other teams didn't show up. We invited them to play in the men's tournament and said they could invite their ym leaders to join if they would like. The committee felt good about this and I hope you all agree.
     Since the regular season was more about fun and participation it was hard to determine the exact final standings but the committee determined the following standings. This is a true double elimination tournament. And we are under a stake mandate to have the bottom teams play each other and work up to the higher ranked teams,thus the top 4 teams get early round byes.
1) Blaine 1, returning champions
2) Maple Grove men
3) Medicine lake
4) Shore View
5) North St. Paul
6) Shingle Creek
7) Lake Nokomis
8) Elm Creek
9) Anoka
10) Blaine 2
11) TC2
12) Maple Grove young men

 We will have the brackets out later but here are the starting times and your first opponents.  the tournament begins next Thursday Dec. 5, with the final 4 teams playing the following Thursday Dec. 12 at the St. Paul Stake Center.

At St. Paul   Thursday Dec. 5, 2013
7:00 Maple Grove young men/ Blaine 2
7:00 net 2. NSP/ Elm Creek
8:00 Shore View plays the winner of game 5
8:30 Blaine 1 plays the winner of game 7

 At the Minneapolis stake center! December. 5, 2013.
7:00 Anoka / TC2
7:00 net 2 Shingle Creek/  lake Nokomis
8:00 Medicine. Lake/ winner of game 6
8:30 Maple Grove plays the winner of game 8

    Those are the first games for each team, you play until you lose twice or move on to the final 4, Dec. 12 at the St. Paul Stake Center.
    Just a reminder Baptized members of your ward or returning missionaries or students need not play during the regular season to participate in the tournament.
   Non- members and "free agent members were asked to play at least 3 times in order to qualify to participate.
  Match's are two out of three, games to 25, win by two or the first team to 30.

Volleyball update

Tonight is the young men's tournament , single elimination with the winners being invited to play in the men's tournament in two weeks. Maple Grove is going for a three-peat, and are favored .
   There is news on the men's side, TC2 (Hmong ward) just called wondering when volleyball STARTS! A little late for that but they will be taking Cedar Lake's place in the schedule tonight.
 Good luck and. Happy Thanksgiving.

Young men's volleyball tournament

Here is the young men's tournament schedule

At Anoka
7:00
Maple Grove/north St. Paul            Weaver Lake/Elm Creek
7:45
Winners for Championship.              Losers for third place

Update

Update: The Cedar. Lake men's team did drop out, the Bloomington ward is taking their place.

Those who play Wednesday night, did you notice, that my niece's friend who came several times, Maria Sampson,was second team all metro.

Standings as of Nov 7, 13

* (as far as I can tell)

	2013 SAMS LDS men's volleyball standings
	W	L
Bln2	10	3
SV	7	3
Med Lk	10	4
SC	8	4
Lk Nok	4	4
MG	7	5
NSP	5	7
EC	4	6
Bln1	2	10
Aka	2	8
Clk	0	8
	2013 SAMS  LDS  young men's volleyball standings
	W	L
MG	7	0
EC	3	4
Wlk	3	3
NSP	2	4