Tournament update.

FUTSAL
    The initial Futsal torunament pits undefeated Twin Cities 1 (Spanish) vs Elm Creek.  Elm Creek is bolstered by the addition of high school soccer players who are members of the ward.  Only one high school team soccer player is allowed on the court at a time.

7:00 at the St. Paul stake center.

VOLLEYBALL
      There are fewer but stronger teams,  with Crystal and Shingle Creek, Elm Creek and Medicine Lake, Plymouth and lake Nokomis, Maple Grove and Andover combining there should be a very competitive tournament, The past three champions will have their teams mostly back together.

Reminder
     To help facilitate participation if your team has more than 6 players there are three ways you can substitute

1). Traditional rotating, every player sits out a rotation or two then rotates in.

2). One on one substitution, generally one player plays a position on the front row, another does the back row, or one player plays all 6 rotation spots than substitutes. This form requires the two players need to sub for each other only.

3) Hybrid,  you rotate players,as in (1) but you can skip over a player, or two, three ,four, even 5 as they stay on the Court in there rotation position.

 You must pick and announce your form of substitution before each game, And you ar allowed to change from game to game within a match, however whatever method you use to start a game you must finish that game.

Match's are 2 of 3 games all games to 25 win by two or first to 30.

 The tournament is double elimination, but when you get to the final two teams if the team with one loss,wins there will only be one game to 25 for the championship, good luck.

Futsal tournament pictures

2015 SAMS LDS Men's Volleyball tournament

*  NSP and Aka are out,  Mlk and EC  combined, good luck!
Sorry for Game (5) it is  at 7:45, Dec, 10  at Anoka.

futsal tournament update

.   The conclusion of the initial season of Futsal has been amazing.
  In the first semi final game  Elm  Creek trailed Shingle Creek 2-1  but tied it  by half time. It remained tied until the final minute when Elm Creek scored, advancing to the championship game.
   In the other bracket Maple Grove vs. Medicine Lake. maple Grove is composed of a team with several deacons. medicine Lake only had three players. medicine Lake lead 4-1 at half time, at which time the Maple Grove coach and one of their best players had to leave. The Medicine lake players were totally exhausted. And chose  to play completely defensive.  maple Grove started to rally and got to 4-3. When with 2 minutes to go a hand ball by the goalie gave MG a free kick from half court.... The dramatic shot just missed. The rally continued and with 30 seconds left MG tied it.
 In the sudden death overtime period, MG peppered the Mlk goal but Mlk got a full court break away and scored.
    After a 5 minute break Mlk had to play TC1. The Spanish Ward with its contingent of 10 skilled players.
     In a gesture of tremendous class sportsmanship , and the spirit of Christ. the Spanish coach said Mlk could use MG players to fill their team. And it would still count! The game was scoreless through the first 10 minutes when TC 1 scored on it's way to a 6-1 win.
   This sets up the championship match between TC1 and Elm Creek, funny during the regular season TC1 was 10-0 Elm Creek was 0-10. However Elm Creek has been bolstered by the addition of players who played high school soccer.
  just to clarify the rule, you can have as many high school players on the court as you want but high school students who played for their high school team, and are Baptised members of your ward, you can only have one on the court at a time, but unlike adults, they are allowed to score.
    The Championship game will be Thursday Dec. 3, 7:00 at the St. Paul stake center at 100 Silver Lake Road.
Good luck to all.

Week 11 Schedule 11/19/2015

    This is the last week of the  Volleyball  regular season,   The  volleyball tournament and the Futsal championship game will be Dec. 3.

Eligibility rules
Futsal:
     Any Baptized YM  in your ward may play  regardless if they played during the regular season or not
Free agent players and non members must have played at least once.
High School players who are Baptized members of your ward may play and score, but only one on the court at a  time.
Adult  members of the ward    who coach may play but cannot score.

Volleyball
   Non-members and  free agent players must have played once  to play in the tournament
Any Baptized member of the ward and members of their family need not play during the regular season to play in the tournament, (this includes returning students and Missionaries)


Week 11  Schedule   Nov. 19, 2015

                               at   Anoka

                          Futsal tournament

6:00     MG/Mlk
7:00     winner of 6:00 game vs  TC1

                           Volleyball

                    court 1                              court 2

8:00      MG/Bln                        Aka/EC
8:45      MG/EC                        Bln/Aka


                       at   St. Paul

                   Futsal Tournament

7:00           EC/SC

                       Volleyball

               court 1                      court 2
8:00         SV/Mlk                SC/Lnok
8:45         Lnok/Mlk             SC/TC2
9:30         SV/TC2

Week 9 standings

                                                                     Men's volleyball standing  week 9

Final Futsal standings
Week 9	Team	W   L		Week 9	Team	W   L
1	TC1	5     0		1	BLN	14    0
2	SC	5     1		2	MG	9     6
3	MG	4     4		3	LNOK	9     7
4	NSP	4     3		4	TC2	8     5
5	MLK	3     4		5	SV	8     6
6	EC	0     9		6	MLK	7     7
				7	SC	6     8
				8	EC	5     9
				9	Anoka	3     9
				10	NSP	2     7

First annual 2015 SAMS LDS Futsal tournament

Week 10, Nov. 12, 2015 schedule

Week 10, Nov. 12, 2015 schedule

Last week for Futal,  Two weeks left in the regular season for Volleyball than the tournaments begine


                              at Anoka

                               FUTSAL

6:00              EC/MG   
7:00              SC/Mlk

                            VOLLEYBALL

                        court 1                           court 2
8:00           MG/Mlk (take 2)              SV/Aka
8:45           MG/Aka                          SV/SC
9:30           SC/Mlk

                            at  St. Paul

                                Futsal

6:00
7:00           NSP/TC1 

                               Volleyball

                 court 1                           court 2
8:00          NSP/Bln                   Lnok/EC
8:45          NSP/EC                   Lnok/TC2
9:30          Bln/TC2

Week 9 Nov. 5, 2015

Week 9 5 Nov. 2015
    Two weeks of Futsal left until the tournament which will start on Nov. 19th. let's make a special effort to get full teams there, we will be evaluating to see if we want to continue Futsal in the future.
the men's volleyball tournament will start after Thanksgiving, Dec. 3. All tournament games will be on Thursday nights.

            At. St. Paul

               Futsal

7:00.     NSP (combined)/MG (YM). NSP better show up this time!!!!


                                   Volleyball

                   Court 1.                           Court 2
8:00.      NSP/Aka.                         SC/Bln (SC better show up this time)
8:45.      NSP/TC2.                        Bln/Aka
9:30.      SC/TC2



                               At. Minneapolis

                                 Futsal


6:00.               SC/MLk    
7:00.               TC1/EC


                                 Volleyball

                         Court 1.                       Court 2
8:00.           MG/MLk.                   SV/EC
8:45.           MG/SV.                      LNok/MLk
9:30.           EC/LNok