THE ROAD TO CRYSTAL.... and than there were two!

And then there were two.  
     Eighth seeded  Shingle Creek/Princeton  will play #2  Maple Grove in the Men's  finals next Thursday April 30  at  8:00 at the Crystal stake center.
    The young men's championship game between  defending champion and top seeded Eden Prairie and  #3 Elm Creek which  play at 7:00 also at  Crystal.
    The  game of the night was  TC1 (Spanish) nearly upsetting  Maple Grove.   In the  first half TC1  opened a  double digit lead.  Hitting contested shots all over the court.  Maple Grove rallied to trail  by 3  at half.
    Second half a flurry of difficult shots kept going in for  TC1  until they LEAD BY 12  with 2  minutes to go!  Maple Grove went into a desperate vicious  full court press  and converted  turnovers into layups  until they took a 2  point lead with seconds to go.  A  last second TC1 shot missed but  a  foul was called on the play.   With 1  second to go, trailing by 2  TC1 had 2  shots,  they  made the first  but the second missed however the big man for the Spanish  reached over the shoulder of the  boxing  out rebounder  and was able to tip the ball up, but it just  missed, game over.
    In the other  quarter final  Bloomington beat  North St. Paul 56-44.
In  the first semi-final hot shooting Shingle Creek/Princeton  beat  Blaine 57-37.
In the night cap there was another barn burner in the other semi-final Where  Bloomington rode 5  first half  threes  by Adam   to a nine point half time lead over Maple Grove. Maple Grove  fought back but  the rally  was slowed by  uncharacteristically missing  6 free throws in a row.  but Maple Grove got hot combined with vicious  defense  and Maple Grove took the lead for the first time in the last minute, Maple Grove sealed the deal with 6  straight  free throws to win 60-54.

  Thanks for  the great season so far, thanks for all the volunteers  who helped make this another wonderful season.

  Get this on your Calander, the tri-stake golf tournament will be August 15th  with details to follow.

The Volleyball coach's  meeting  will be  Thursday Sept 10th, 7:00 at the Anoka stake center. Due to  lack on interest in Young men's volleyball  we are kicking around  the idea of indoor soccer for the young men'... your feed back is appreciated.