Results from week 6

At Anoka
Andover beat Lnok (YM)
MGa 64 Med Lake 61 (YM)
MG 66 New Brighton 55
EC 54 North St. Paul 31

Referee assignment confusion

.   We appreciate the willingness to referee, and most of the assignments are filled,thanks so much.
    There is some confusion though.
  In the past when we had 12 young men's teams and 18 men's teams  it was an easy hard and fast rule, each location had 2 young men's games followed by 3 men's games and if you play at 7 you ref at 8:00, if  you play at 10 you have no ref. Assignments. Etc.
     THIS IS NOT THE CASE THIS YEAR.
 Because we have uneven numbers of teams some locations we have only one young men's game some we have two.  Some locations we will have two men's games others three.

   So it requires a little effort to figure out the refereeing assignments.



LOCATIONS WITH THREE MEN's games
Teams playing the first game,    Has two players. From each team officiate the second game
Teams playing the middle game' .... Each team has two players come early and officiate the first game, plus two players from each team officiate the third game.
Teams playing the last game have no referee assignment but are required to clean up, shut off lights and lock up.


LOCATIONS WITH 2 MENS GAMES:

 Each team's sends two players to officiate the other game.

Young men's teams officiate themselves

Thanks again for your cooperation.
g

Lost phone

    I have a phone that was left at the Anoka stake center last night (Thursday)
Call Gary Campion 612-202-6393

Results from week 5

 at. Anoka
MGb lost to Plymouth (YM)
MGA beat Lmok (YM)
MG 69 Lnok 82
EC beat Ply

for SAMS basketball Rubes

For the RUBES,   here  are the Matrix's that We use to do the schedules.  The top is the young men's  the bottom the men's.
     The way you  read them is look for your team on the  first left column   read across  when you see a number look up to the top of that column  and that number represents the week number that you play the team listed on top.   The  last column and the bottom row  are the weeks  your teams have byes.  You can see  no team has more than one bye, and  there  are   times when  your team plays another twice,  and  there are a few times  you do not play certain teams,  I am sure there are errors as  we  moved  teams around to get them to  fit the weekly schedules  sometimes we forget to erase brain storming  games.  

Week 5 schedule 2/16/2017

2/16/2017			at  Anoka			at  St Paul			at  Minneapolis
	6:30		MGb/Ply(ym)	6:30		And/Mlk(ym)	6:30		SCb/EPC(ym)
	7:30		Mga/Lnok(ym)	7:30		SV/SC	7:30		SV/SC(ym)
	8:30		MG/Lnok	8:30		NSP/Tonka	8:30		CW/NB
	9:30		EC/Ply	9:30		TC1/WstP	9:30		AA/Bln
			bye	Eden Prairie/Bloom

Results from week 4

Results from week 4
At the Anoka stake center
  Shingle creek b (YM) 53, MGb 20
 MGa 51 SC a (YM) 25
AA 61 MG 53
SC 76 TC1 55

at  the St. Paul Stake Center
Ply78/ SV(ym) 55
Shore View 57/ Ply 53 (ym)
Elm Creek 62- West St. Paul 46
Lake Nokomis 60-North St. Paul 40

at  Minneapolis stake center
Eden Prairie/Chaska beat  Lake Nokomis  (ym)
Minnetonka  beat  Eden Prairie/Blooomington
New  Brighton beat Blaine

from Bill Oelkers, how S.a.m.s.has grown

Hi I was just talking to someone after the basketball games Thursday night at the St. Paul stake center  how pleased I am at the sportsmanship and spirit that existed in the basketball games, the games were competitive,the guys played hard, the referees were very competent for volunteers, and the players respected their decisions,  and win or lose everyone had fun and were friends afterwords. I want to thank you for that and all the volunteers who make this work, keep it up.
      It has not always been like that I stumbled across this email from Bill Oelkers, who passed away a few years ago but was a Hugh church sports supporter.
   I thought That you might be interested in reading it.

I would like to say AMEN to Gary’s soapbox speech on complaints on reffing.

I began my involvement in church sports in the summer of 1965. I played in the Minnesota Stake deacon’s softball league. As I recall this was a highlight of year. I was not a great ball player and never would have had the chance to play any where else. I still have many close friends from that group of young men, they have had eternal effect on my life.

I continued on in church sports and have experienced the ups and downs. I served as a regional athletic director for several years in the 1970’s. This was when the church began the program of self officiating. If you think things are challenging now, you should have been around then. I will say, however, that the amount of trouble with volunteer refs was not much different than when we had paid refs. 

I recall one time when my dad and two other brethren were called into to President Paul Wilson’s office and told to clean up their act on the basketball court or they would be asked not to participate. This was very interesting, as all three sat on the High Council at the time and were very close friends. They were all competitive athletes that got caught up in the moments. They did in fact clean up their act and all played Basketball well into their 50’s. My dad actually refereed a game 5 months before he died. He was very ill with cancer at the time, but felt it was his responsibility to support a church program he dearly loved.

I went through the drought of church sports in Minnesota that occurred in the 1980’s and 1990’s. There was no support from the leadership for church sports. There was not an individual like Gary Campion or Lisa Howard to be the driving force in organizing a very complicated program. No one individual was willing to take on the hassle.

As a father with five children, I was forced to bring my children elsewhere for athletic experiences. This was an expensive undertaking. We spent thousands of dollars and donated hundreds of hours in sponsoring and supporting our kid’s teams. It was sometimes challenging to find a program that reflected the values I felt important. No matter who sponsored the league, I spent countless hours working with and supporting coaches and staff to help make certain that my children were being taught correct principles and values. The officiating in these leagues are not perfect. I saw teams lose because of a bad call and saw teams win because of a bad call. I have been on both sides of that experience. 

We watched winning teams and sat through long difficult seasons of endless defeats. In recollection, all were great times for our kids. They have mostly good memories. They do not remember bad calls that refs made. They remember goals and touchdowns scored, home runs hit and rebounds made. They treasure friendships developed and lessons learned. They were blessed with good coaches who taught great life lessons and experienced bad coaches and learned great life lessons. 

I do recall one bad call made. My 18 year old son Dana was refereeing a basketball game I was coaching. He made a terrible call. (He denies this to this day) I was a little too caught up in the moment and a spent way to much time complaining. (Hard to believe) Dana calmly gave me a warning, which irritated me even more. I complained some more and Dana tossed me out of the game. (He actually asked me to leave the building) What a great lesson my young son taught me that day. 

Again, we should be grateful that we have a place to play some ball on a Thursday evening. We should be grateful we have a place where our children and grandchildren can go and be safe. We should be grateful it does not cost anything. 

There are several Men’s basketball leagues to play in that have paid refs. There are several boy’s or girl’s basketball leagues available to play in that have paid refs. As Gary said, if you want to play in that kind of a league, go ahead and pay the price of admission. You then may have some right to complain about the officiating. 

I give my whole hearted thanks to my friend Gary Campion for the time and effort he puts into the SAMS leagues. I am also grateful that the Stake Presidents are supporting this effort. As I said, I lived through the drought of church sports in Minnesota. I thank these men of vision for their support. I look forward to watching my grandchildren play basketball in the Stake Center gyms. I would hope that the actions of a few would not rob that chance from them.

William B. Oelkers   

 HI all
    well another week of basketball and it sounds like all went pretty well,  okokok
 I am making an announcement

AS THE LARGE BARGE IN CHARGE i AM USING THE POWER INHERENT IN MY POSITION TO DECLARE A MORATORIUM ON REFEREE COMPLAINTS,  NO MORE COMPLAINTS ABOUT REFEREES!!!!!!!!!!!

I know it is only a few of you,  but these guys are volunteers, they are inexperienced, and they are doing their best, but they are what they are and we should be grateful they have volunteered to help us and serve you by officiating your games.
  Consider them to have a one day "calling"  thus they work for the church and remember our covenant "no evil speaking of the lords anointed"   ok ok it is  a  little stretch to consider them the Lords anointed, but if we treat them that way, Basketball can be an enjoyable experience for both the players and the referees.

    If  you can't handle our league with our referees, join the NBA or the YMCA,  It is not a  "right" to play LDS basketball it is a privilege, be thankful. I know I am.  There are  a few teams who missed the meeting who would be  very excited to take your teams place in the schedule.
I know how things go, the games are emotional and right after a close play if the call or no call goes against you, it is normal to have a brief, reaction, but than let it go, there is nothing you can do to change it and hanging on to it will effect your play negatively.
   ok I am off my soap box.
 thanks for everyone who volunteers  and for the players who swallow their pride and accept the officials for what they are.
thanks
Gary
(S.A.M.S.)

PS  If winning the league is so important that you feel you have to make life miserable for our re fs just call me and I will send you a  50 cent  championship ribbon.  Than you can settle down and have fun.
thanks again

2017 schedule available

     2017 whole season basketball schedule is now posted if you click on the gadget  2017 SAMS LDS men's and  Young Men's basketball schedule.
     I advise you to continue to check the blog before you attend games as the schedule is supject to change, if  teams add or drop out or if a building becomes unavailable (General authority visit, weddings, Funerals, Weather  etc.)

Results from week 3

at  St. Paul
SV beat MGa (ym)
And beat MGb(ym)
NSP beat MG
Blaine 54 West St. Paul 53 (over time,  Blaine hit a contested three at the buzzer  to beat WSt.P. in Over Time)
New Brighton 54 Andover/Anoka 49

at  Minneapolis
Mlk beat SC (ym)
EPC beat Plymouth (ym)
Ply beat  EPB
CW  beat  EC
Lnok  beat SC

Week 4 2/9/2017 basketball schedule

Week 4                                   
2/9/2017            at  Anoka                  at  St Paul                 at  Minneapolis
    6:30        SCb/Mgb(ym)   6:30        SV/Ply(ym)    6:30        Lnok/EPC(ym)
    7:30        SC/MGa(ym)   7:30        SV/PLY         7:30        Tonka/EPB
    8:30        MG/AA            8:30        WStP/EC       8:30        Bln/NB
    9:30        SC/TC1           9:30        NSP/Lnok      9:30       
                                   
Bye    Mlk(ym)            Chaska/Waconia