Friday, April 29, 2016

Blog hits

For  those keeping track, this experimental blog just passed 40,000 hits  in 3 1/2 years! The saved trees thank us. :-)

Results from Anoka

Maple Grove,41 YSA 34
Bloonington57/ New Brighton 47 (13 three,pointers)
(In an upset)#12 Maple Grove 54/ (#6) NSP 46
Princeton beat Bloomington

Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Bracket question

Those savvy bracket observers as questioning why #5 Blaine plays #1 TC1 should they advance. tC 1 should play the number 8 team. Well I made a mistake and put the game numbers in the brackets on the second round of the brackets not the seeding numbers, Blaine is  number 8,
7). Plymouth
6) NSP
5) Princeton
 Good luck
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Friday, April 22, 2016

Tournament rules

1). The referees ar always right.

2) tournament overtime.... For the tournament each two minute overtime starts with a jump ball and the alternating possession resets,  one time out per team per overtime period, they do not carry over, the second and etc overtime periods again are two minutes until the is a winner.

3). This is always the rule but just to remind everyone that  for violations and fouls, time outs, technicals etc the ball is taken out at the nearest spot as when the stoppage occurred . It is not like the NBA where the ball advances, we play by high school rules.

4). This is always the rule but since it is new we will go over it,
FREE THROWS   Those in the lane may go into the lane when the ball is released. All others (including the shooter) must wait until the ball hits the rim. If the violation occurs to the shooting team, the free throw is canceled, you do not reshoot it, if the violation is on the defensive team, and the free throw goes in, it counts and you move on, if the shooter misses, he reshoots that shot.

Eligibility:
*    Non-members and Free agent members (players who's ward does  not have a team) must have played at least once this season for your team to play in the tournament.

* Players  from the YM  team may play for the adult team.

* Baptized  Players  from your ward  returning from school or missions, new move ins,  newly Baptized members   may play in the tournament.

*  Baptized members of your ward may play in the tournament even if they did not play during the regular season.

Good luck, and thanks for all the volunteer help in running the program.

PS. Put this on your calanders!
   The meeting for Volleyball and YM Futsal (soccer) is Sept. 8, 2016, 7:00 at the Anoka stake center

SAMS TRISTAKE  GOLF TOURNAMENT-   Saturday Sept. 3, 2016, details to come later.

Spread the word.
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Sunday, April 17, 2016

2016 SAMS LDS MENS BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT





























Week 14 4/21/2016


Week 14 4/21/2016






at  Anoka
at St. Paul
at Minneapolis

6:00





7:00 AA/MG
SV/SC
Lnok/Ply

8:00 EC/WstP
Bln/TC1
Bloom/NB

9:00

YSA/StP
Prince/NSP

10:00









EC  and WstP  send 2 for 7:00




























































Bln, Bloom  ref at 7:00







Monday, April 11, 2016

Schedule change for Minneapolis building

Attention YSA and Plymouth, NSP and Lake Nokomis are switching from 7:00 to 9:00 so you do not need to send referees to the 7:00 game, but two from each team stays to officiate the 9:00 games
 Thanks spread the word

Thursday, April 7, 2016

Week 13, 4/14/2016


Week 134/14/2016























































Week 13 4/14/2016






at  Anoka
at St. Paul
at Minneapolis

6:00





7:00 MG/Bloom
SV/Prince
Lnok/NSP

8:00 SC/Bln
NB/TC1
Ply/YSA

9:00 AA/WstP
EC/StP


10:00









SC, NB  refs at 7:00  Ply and YSA  sends 2 for 7:00 Games

Week 12 results

Results from  Minneapolis  stake center

MGa beat  Chaska (ym)
Ply  beat  MG (men)
MGz  Beat  Shingle Creek (ym)
SC  beat YES
EC  beat Bloom

SAMS LDS 2016 YM basketball champions MGa

Congratulations to the SAMS LDS  2016 YM  basketball champions''
                            Maple Grove  A

MGa  54  Med Lake  46
MGa   63   Chaska     57
Championship
MGa  43  Shingle Creek  23


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Friday, April 1, 2016

Movie recommendation

     I just rented a surprisingly entertaining and uplifting football/life DVD movie
      "My All American".
Good for the whole family
g

YM tournament updates

   This Thursday, April 7, 2016  is the final 4 and championship  games.
The semi finals are both at  6:00, SC/SV  at  St. Paul,  MGa/Chaska  at Mpls.
The winner of the  SC/SV (ym)  game travels  to Mpls (Crystal)  and plays the Winner of
MGa/Chaska (ym)  at  8:00 at Minneapolis (Crystal).

      The MGb/MLk (ym)  game  was intriguing,  MGb's  best player  was not going to show up  until half time,  thus they were left with a  whole team of deacons who fought valiantly and their  hope was to keep it  close until half time.   At the 10:00  mark it was 8-6,  But than  MLk    went on a 28-2  run to kind of seal it,  The Player  for some reason never showed up.  
    MGa/Mlk (ym)  game was close 33-32  with two minutes to go before half time. But  MGa  finished the half on a 6-0 run,  Mlk finally wore out   and the speed  length and  depth of MGa  won out.

  This is setting up  an interesting  rematch  of last years Semi-finalists  Chaska  has the size to keep up with MGa  making a very interesting match up.
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PS   On a personal note,  if it seems like we have  been lacking our normal attention to the blog this year, it is because  Billy (st. Paul AD)   Just had a Baby  a couple weeks ago... congrats! Mpls is still working on calling an AD.  And I have had two funerals (including my father)  with travel and time consumption implications.  We will do better in the future.

Thanks again to everyone who volunteered to coach, and ref and officiate the games.  As far as I can tell the sportsmanship has been outstanding,  a few to many no show teams,  but the season has been fun.

Three more weeks  and it is tournament time for the men.

It has been asked, when the YM  season is done can their players join the men's teams?
YES,  Especially if that is the difference in having or not having a team,  But be  mindful of the men who have  played all year, I would consult with them  since adding players reduces  the men's players  playing minutes. 

Week 12 schedule, April 7, 2016








Week 124/7/2016






at  Anoka
at St. Paul
at Minneapolis

6:00   xxx

SC/SV(ym)


MGa/Chska(ym)

7:00   xxxx
SV/AA
MG/Ply

8:00   xxxx
Bln/NSP

W-6:00 championship

9:00   xxxx
NB/Prince
SC/YSA

10:00   xxxx
WstP/TC1
EC/Bloom
Bln sends 3  to referee at 7:00



MG/Ply self officiate