SAMS LDS MENS TOURNAMENT UPDATE

.        What a great and unpredictable night of basketball.  The committee is very proud of it's prediction rate as being almost always right 83.2 % of the time. That all went out the window last night.
        Bottom line #8 North St. Paul will be playing #10 Maple Grove for the championship Thursday May 4 7:30 at the Minneapolis (Crystal) stake center.
       At St. Paul ,  in the first quarter final game the  top seeded Lake Nokomis  continued their streak of bad luck in the tournaments by being even at half time with North St. Paul, but in a game that " more resembled a rugby game than a basketball game, NSP got hot and Lnok. Got cold and NSP pulled away and won handlily.
     In the other quarter final Plymouth/Minnetonka  and Elm Creek were nip and tuck all game with Plymouth/Tonka winning by one in a game where  both teams had chances.
   In the  Final four game, the two evenly matched teams. They played earlier with Plymouth/Minnetoka winning by one.  The game went back and forth with the final 3  minutes lasting about 25 minutes.  Trialing by one with 3.4 seconds to go shooting an one and one.  They miss the first free throw... however  they get the rebound and the followup shot was blocked "Possibly fouled but not called" and time expired.
    At Anoka in the first quarterfinal, Second seed TC1 lost a nail biter to Blaine. With 15 seconds to go and trailing by one TC1 drove to the basket missed the driving lay up and the rebound was knocked the up of bounds at the same time by both teams. Fortunately for Blaine the arrow was pointing in their favor. A last second three by Blaine sealed the deal.
    In the biggest surprise #10 Maple Grove playing with out their best player, who left for Germany hours before the game, played #3 Shingle Creek who added their best player Dana Oelkers who played sparingly during the regular season to spend more time with his kid.
     The game had the feel that Shingle Creek, which lead most of the way, was on the verge of pulling away the whole game. Every time they got a 5-6 point lead Maple Grove would hit a three or convert a three point play to keep it close.
      Near the end when Maple Grove had to resort to fouling. The outcome came down to free throws. Maple Grove made almost all their free throws and Shingle Creek, normally very good free throw shooting team, missing many key free throws.  Down the the final 15 seconds, Shingle Creek leading by 2 gets fouled shooting a three, thus three free throws to ice the game. However they miss all three!
     With fouls to give Maple Grove is fouled, trailing by two with 2 seconds to go.  Maple Grove had two excellent shooters they tried to work the inbounds pass to. shingle Creek doubled teamed both shooters, however they left the center unguarded by the  basket and the passer saw him hit him with the pass and he scored a layup at the buzzer to send it to overtime.    
        Controlling the tap and hitting a quick three Maple Grove stunned Shingle Creek in overtime.
       In the final four game  a very tired and cramping Maple Grove team played a stiff Blaine team to a close finish, with the score tied with 2 minutes to go. Maple a Grove hit a three and made their free throws to win a close one.
 Championship game Thursday May 6, 7:30 at Crystal

        Put it on your calanders and spread the word,
   SAMS LDS TRI STAKE GOLF TOURNAMENT SATURDAY SEPT. 9, 2017.  More details to follow.
     Men's' volleyball and young men's futsal meeting will be Thursday Sept 14, 2017  7:30 at the Anoka stake center.
      Thanks for the wonderful season so far and all the help with officiating games, cleaning up, and the admiral sportsmanship.

2017 SAMS LDS MEN'S Basketball tournament brackets

4/27/2017 men's tournament schedule

4/27/2017 SAMS LDS MENS BASKETBALL GREAT 8 AND FINAL 4 SCHEDULE.


 At Minneapolis
700.   Lake Nokomis/North St. Paul
8:00.   Plymouth/Elm Creek
9:30.    Winners play, final 4

* Ply and Elm Creek each sends 2 to officiate the 7:00 game
*. Losers of the 7:00 officiate the 8:00 game, loser of 8:00 officiate the 9:30 game.



At Anoka
7:00. Blaine/ Twin Cities 1
8:00. Shingle Creek/ Maple Grove
9:30. Winners play final 4

*. Maple Grove and Shingle Creek sends two to officiate 7:00 game
*  Loser of 7:00 officiated 8:00 game, loser of 8:00 of fixates 9:30 game


Thanks and good luck
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Tournament results

At Minneapolis
Eden prairie Bloomington 49 new Brighton 31
NSP 57 EPBloom, 46

At Anoka
Maple Grove 57 Anoka/Andover 43
Maple Grove 65  Chaska/ Waconia 41

At St. Paul
WStP beat SV
Blaine beat WStP

4/20/2017. Week 14 men's tournament schedule

Week 14 schedule, 4/20/2017



                At. Anoka.            At St. Paul.             At Minneapolis
7:30.   MG/AA.                  SV/WStP.                    EPB/NB
8:45   W 7:30/CW.             W-7:30/Bln.                 W-7:30/NSP

Refereeing:
NSP, Bln, CW  please send two guys to help officiate the 7:30 games
LNok at Mpls, , TC1 at St. Paul, SC at Anoka please send 2 to help officiate the 8:45 games
The losers of 7:30 games please keep 2 (at least) to help officiate 8:45 games
Thanks!

*.  Seedlings compared to final standings
    #2. TC1. (9-2). Better winning percentage than #3. SC (10-3)
Tie breakers
  #5 ply, #6 CW  Plymouth beat CW week 10
#7 Bln beat #8 NSP week 2

Eligibility :
Only 2 non members on the court at a time per team.
Non-members must have played at least once during the regular season.
Non-members living in the same household as a Baptized member or a sibling or child of a Baptized member are considered members Forrest church sports purposes
Free agent members (members who's home ward does not have a team) must have played at least once during regular season.
Baptized members of your home ward or kids coming home from missions or school or new move ins need not play during the regular season to play on the tournament.

Congratulations, 2017 SAMS LDS YM BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS... ANDOVER

Congratulations,  2017 SAMS LDS  YM  BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS... ANDOVER.

     

     Masterfully  working in 11 players  and with  great balance and execution  Andover  beat  Maple  Grove.  Who closed to with in 4  with a few minutes left but wore down and Andover prevailed.

Week 13, 4/13/2017

Week 13,  Final reg. season games before men's tournament



 

week 13
4/13/2017			at  Anoka			at  St Paul			at  Minneapolis
	6:30			6:30			6:30
	7:30		SC/NB	7:30		Ply/Bln	7:30		CW/NSP
	8:30		SV/AA	8:30		WstP/MG	8:30		EC/Lnok
	9:30		EPB/TC1	9:30			9:30

Week 12, 4/6/2017 YM tournament final 4 and championship & men's schedule

Please take note,  the brackets that were distributed and posted have incorrect starting times
Rather than the games starting at 6:30  at  St. Paul and Mpls  they start at 6:00  Championship at
8:00 not  8:30  at  Crystal.

week 12            YM tournament            FINAL 4   and CHAMPIONSHIP               
4/6/2017
            Anoka                 at  St Paul                               at  Minneapolis   
            xxxx    6:00        Mga/Ply (ym)               6:00        EPC/And (ym)   
            xxxx    7:00        SV/TC1                        7:00        WstP/AA   
            xxxx    8:00        EC/NB                         8:00         W-6:00/ w-6:00    championship
            xxxx    9:00        NSP/SC                        9:00        Lnok/Bln   
            xxxx    10:00      Ply/EPB                      10:00        CW/MG

 


Refereeing is going to be different, 
* EC and NB  send two guys each to referee the 7:00 game,
thereafter  the teams that play each have two officiate the next game.
*  WstP  and  AA  will have to self officiate,  and if Blaine and Lake Nok.  can send two  to officiate the championship  game at 8:00  that would be great,  thanks
*CW  and MG  send  two to officate the 9:00  game.
thanks


* Just for your information,  the St Paul building  is  suddenly not available starting April 20 so  we are  starting the men's tournament a week early.