Week One results

Partly because of the St. Paul stake conference last week, word did not get out very well so at the last second we canceled the NSP/MG  young men's team,   what happened  was  Weaver Lake and Elm Creek young men's teams turned up and combined to play practice games with  MG  young men.  The games were for practice  but they had a riot.


For the men
MG  beat  Shingle Creek
Elm Creek Beat  NSP  in 3  games
Elm Creek beat MG
Shingle  Creek beat NSP

Shoreview  beat  Blaine 1
Shoreview beat Blaine 2
Not sure how Med. Lake did.

SAMS LDS men and young men's volleyball week 2 schedule 19 Sept 2013

Hi all,
      Well  we are off and running. Last week was really fun.
  At this point there are  4 young men's teams, and 12  Men's  teams.  Since we play double headers each week, the  young men would play each other 5 or 6  times this season.  After talking to several of the young men and conferring with our stake people, we are going to experiment by  having each week the young men play one of their  games against another young men's  team  and the other game will be against one of the  MEN'S TEAMS! These mixed   games will not  count in the standings  so if the teams are very very uneven the two teams can split up and play.  The  tournament will have all  the young men's  teams  play in the young men's tournament and men in the men's tournament.

Here is the schedule for week 2, 19 Sept. 2013

                               At  Anoka
                      court 1                       court 2
7:00   MG/Wlk (ym)           Aka/MG (MEN)
7:45   MG(ym)/Aka             MG(men)/Wlk(ym)
8:30   Lnok/Bln1                 SC/Bln2
9:15   LkNok/Bln2              SC/Bln1



                               At  St. Paul
                      court 1                       court 2
7:00     NSP/EC(ym)           NSP/Cedar Lake (men)
7:45     EC(ym)/NSP           NSP(ym)/Cedar Lake
8:30     EC/Med Lk              SV/NB
9:15     Med Lk/SV              EC/NB

Good Luck
(sorry it took so long to get this out, I was sitting ready to type last night and I had an emergency medical run)

       There are two main rule changes
1)   Non-members  need to play at least 3  match's   to qualify for the tournament

2)  It is not legal to touch any part of the net except the top.  Now you cannot touch it to the point that you interfere with a  player on the other side that is a violation and for safety reasons lets enforce that closely.

Good luck let us know if there are other teams interested in playing.   Contact
Gary Campion   612-202-6393
Scott Ross    612-702-8814
Becky Olson   952-212-7456

List of teams, additions?

Hi all,
      Here are the teams as we have them now

Young men,
Maple Grove
North St. Paul
Weaver Lake
Elm Creek

Men:
Maple Grove
NSP
Elm Creek
Shingle Creek
Shore View
Blaine 1
Blaine2
Medicine Lake
Anoka
Lake Nokomis
Cedar Lake

Are there any more? Additions or subtractions, Singles Ward?  Hmong ward? Plymouth?
Please let us know

g

2013 nth Annual S.A.M.S. LDS Tri-Stake Golf Tournament

2013 nth Annual S.A.M.S. LDS.

Tri-Stake Golf Tournament

When? 
Saturday, 10 Aug. 2013, 3:00 P.M.

Where?  
Greenhaven Golf course, 2800 Greenhaven Road, Anoka, Mn.

How much? 
18 holes. $22.50 if you walk, $32 with cart. (Pay at course)

Who? 
All invited. The format will be stroke play or scrambles.

Why? 
Valuable prizes for winners, (not so valuable)

Purpose?
To  Determine:
1) Who is the best.
2) Who is the worst (highly coveted)
3) Who can lose the most golf balls   
We will have nearest to pin, longest putt, and long drive contests within the round.

Come join the fun, fellowship, lots of laughs and friendly competition. Spread the word.

RSVP (not required) Gary Campion
Text or call: 612-202-6393. Email: anokastakeathletics@gmail.com
 Check latest LDS sports updates: SAMSLDS.blogspot.com

Trivia

Watching the Heat/Pacer game I asked myself  "How many Mormons are there in the NBA?"

Answer (unofficial ) one. Jimmer Ferdette.

post game basketball nerd stuff

         For the basketball nerds.  As I was savoring last night's  game (Hey I personally have not played in a championship game in 12 years) and pouring over the score sheet,  which  Becky kept meticulously and neatly,  thanks you for that, I observed a couple interesting things.
      Rereading my update it seemed like a lot of free throws were  shot.  Looking at the score sheet,  Maple Grove   shot 26  free throws!!  and what would have been the story of the game only made 15. However looking at Lake Nokomis they shot 32 free throws and made 25 of them.  So Lake Nokomis only made 9  field goals with 3  being  3 pointers,  Maple Grove made  15  field goals with 3  being 3 pointers.
   So in 40 minutes of running time 58  free throws were shot,   41 fouls were called, 20 called on Lake Nokomis, 21 on Maple Grove. (told you it was Physical,  but clean) Great job of officiating.
    Now for the potential  controversy:
  Having a great view of the score board  from my place at the end of the bench, I know  Maple Grove was ahead  by 3 on the score board 49-46 as the last second shot by Lake Nokomis was shot,  However looking at the official  score sheet, it  had the final score as  48-46.  Had that last second shot gone in..... oh baby  would it have counted as  a  tie or win????  TURN THE BASKETBALL BARRISTERS  LOOSE!!!!!
   Have a  great Summer.
g

2013 SAMS LDS Men's basketball Champions, MAPLE GROVE

     In a  great great game,  Maple Grove upset undefeated Lake Nokomis 48-45.
The game was hard fought,  very intense, very physical,  but great sportsmanship in a well officiated game.
Maple Grove lead by 6 at half time,  when one of Lake Nokomis's  tall players showed up,  Lake Nokomis quickly tied it up and for most of the rest of the second half it was back and forth. with 2 minutes to go Lake Nokomis scored to take a 6 point lead. And it felt like they were pulling away. A long pass layup pulled MG  to  within 4.  After trading baskets  MG  was fouled trailing by 4 with about a minute to go,  Shea  made his first free throw, than surprisingly made the play of the game  when he threw a line drive shot off the rim  back to him,  passing  it around a  MG  player was fouled in the act of shooting a 3,  trailing by three, he made 2 of 3,  one point game,  Lake Nokomis is fouled . and make one of two free throws. 18 seconds left,  MG  comes down and again  is fouled shooting a three, trailing by 2.  They make all three to  take a lead  by one.  Lake Nokomis is setting up for the final shot when a  screen sends a MG  player flying and is called for a foul.  Both free throws are made,  Now MG  leads by 3  with 3  seconds to go, Lake Nokomis has to go the length of the court and hit a three to tie it.    The long pass   goes just over the finger tips of two MG  defenders  Lake Nok.  catches the ball, steps back behind the three point line  and his shot  at the buzzer   for  the tie misses.    MG  wins.48-45.
     Thanks for the great season.
Remember  the  Tri stake Golf tournament will be  Sat. Aug. 10th.  location to be announced.

 The volleyball meeting is  Thursday  Sept 12th, 7:00  at the Anoka Stake Center.

Have  a  Great Summer.

Results from May 9th, championship preview

At the Anoka stake center, Maple Grove pulled away in the last couple minutes to beat the singles ward.
    In the other quarterfinal Bloomington playing with only 4 players rallied to beat St. Paul  who 's shooting went cold in the last few minutes.
    In the Semi finals Bloomington's fatigue showed as they feel behind by 18 at the half.  A fifth player showed up and they rallied to get within  4 with 3 minutes to play but Maple Grove made their free throws and won by 7.
     
    At St. Paul
lake Nokomis beat Twin Cities One (Spanish)
Shingle Creek beat Eden Prairie

lake Nokomis remains undefeated by beating Shingle Creek.

Next Thursday the Championship game will be Maple Grove vs. Lake Nokomis at 7:00 at the Anoka stake center, Derek Chrysler  and I flipped a coin to see where we play and then Heads/tails god decided we play at Anoka.
     This is the first time in years that the Number one team plays number 2.
In a game they played earlier Lake Nokomis won but two of maple Groves best players we missing and it was a 6 point game with 5 minutes to go , than Lake Nokomis pulled away.
The committee met secretively  and  agrees that Lake Nokomis is the overwhelming favorite, they have length, speed ,experience and they are undefeated. However if MG is hot and Lake Nokomis falls behind Maple Grove might give them a game.
        Thanks again For the great season so far  have a great summer, now that it looks like it might actually arrive, remember the golf tournament, and the volleyball season starts with the meeting the second Thursday in Sept.
g


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Referee's for Thursday's games

Just a reminder , each team from the 8:00 games need to send a ref to officiate the 7:00 game, and the loser of the 7:00 game needs to officiate the 8:00 game
The loser if the 8:00 needs to officiate the 9:30 game.
Thanks for your cooperation.

GOLF news

Put it on your Calander  the Nth annual  SAMS LDS  tri-stake golf tournament is  scheduled for 

Saturday  Aug. 10, 2013,
at   (tentatively)  Greenhaven Golf course in Anoka.
We will play in the afternoon
Cost is approximately $30  with a cart.
More details to  follow.


Since Summer is my busy busy season I cannot commit myself to play every Saturday or during the week
However  we can use this blog  to publish  names of those who play golf and are looking for partners or  to have  competition  between wards or to just make  4 somes.   those interested   give me your name and phone number, your ward,  and your approximate handicap.   We can publish that information here and hopefully you can get something going.
 
In 2  weeks Basketball will be over which means Volleyball is on the clock.

The Volleyball  coach's and player's  meeting will be Thursday  Sept 12,  7:00 PM  at the Anoka Stake center.
Have a great  Spring and summer (if they ever get here).
g

Tournament Brackets after week one

Here are the brackets of the men's tournament after  week one.

    The most stunning result was YSAb  upsetting #7 Princeton.
Maybe the  best game was #11 Shore View  taking #6 Bloomington to overtime.   with Bloomington prevailing by 3  when a  last second 3 by SV.  clanked out.

  Next week's  quarter finals and semi finals  take place at  Minneapolis and  Anoka.
Thanks for everyone who officiated and helped with the books/clock and clean up.

Final 2013 SAMS LDS men's basketball standings

Final 2013  Men's  SAMS  LDS  basketball standings
                                            Winning percentage
1)   Lake Nokomis  13-0,    1.000
2)   Maple Grove       9-2,     .818
3)   St.Paul                 9-3,     .750
4)   Eden Prairie        9-4      .690
5)   Shingle Creek     6-4      .600
6)   Bloomington       7-5     .583
7)   Princeton             5-5     .500
8)   Twin Cities 1       6-6     .500
9)   Blaine                  6-6     .500
10) North St. Paul     6-6     .500
11)  Shore View         5-7     .417
12)  Plymouth            5-7     .417
13)  YSAb                   5-7     .417
14)  Weaver Lake       4-6     .400
15)   Medicine Lake  4-8      .333
16)   Anoka                 0-10    .000

Teams that  forfeited out
1) Elm Creek
2) Minnetonke
3) Hmong Ward
4)  YSA

Because  there were  two  Multi-team  ties, the order was determined by  coin flips.

2013 SAMS LDS men's basketball tournament

Hi all,
        I love  Excel,  Someday I will figure out how to get it on the blog without having to take a picture of it, I am sure this is easier  to read than my hand written one.
      As  you can see  we have been instructed to reformat the tournament so the lower ranked teams play  each other in the first round  to  hopefully  get  more  competitive games.   The tournament is still  single elimination.
     For the first few rounds  the referee assignments are  the same, if you
play at 7:00  you need to referee  at 8:00
play at  8:00  you need to referee at 7:00 and 9:00
play at 9:00  you need to referee at  10:00
(If players  who have byes the first   rounds volunteer to referee that would be wonderful.)
Good luck, thanks for the wonderful season.
Remember   who we are and act accordingly, I think the sportsmanship with a few exceptions has been wonderful, thank you so much.
g
     

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Previewing the final week, and men's tournament

    Looking at the last week of games, as teams jockey  for  playoff  positioning, it is interesting,  when we did the schedule  we tried to  schedule the better teams  to play each other and the lower end  teams to play each other  thus hopefully producing more  competitive,  closer  games.
   Well with one week left,  there are 10  teams within one game of  .500.
The  top spot is secured by Lake Nokomis, and the bottom spot is secured by the scrappy Anoka team. Everything else is still up for grabs.
     If I can get the results in we will have the tournament schedule out by Thursday night,  Friday Morning at the latest.
      The tournament games will all be on Thursday nights.   May 2,  all qualifying teams will play one game  in the round of 16.   May 9  will have the  quarter finals at  7 and 8,  and the semi finals at 9  at  locations  to be determined  according to who is playing.  If 3 of the 4  teams in a bracket are from a particular stake we will play at that location.    May 16,  7:00 will be the championship game at  Minneapolis  unless both teams are from another stake. (the  young men's  championship was at Anoka,  volleyball championships were at St. Paul,  so we will have the  championship at Minneapolis unless both teams are from another stake.) 
   Thanks for a wonderful season so far.
   

Whistle Rap

      Just a  reminder on  Refereeing  mechanics,  I know it is nice to have one referee  stay at one end of the court for the whole half,  than switch,  However  the proper mechanics is to switch  sides as often as it is convenient.  When a shooting foul is called as one  referee  gives the numbers of the player  who committed the foul  to the table the other referee  gets the other players  set up, and lets the subs in if they are ready,   that  is also a  great time to switch. During time outs,  or when the ball is passed in from the sideline. This prevents a  team  from learning a  referee's tendencies and  use that to their unfair advantage.
   Again we  sure  appreciate  your service as referee's I think considering the circumstances  our  officiating  is  very good,  and what makes it work, the only way it works, is for the players to  show  respect and appreciation  and understanding  for these volunteers  helping out.   Thanks again.

Referee assignments for the last two weeks,

Since the  young men's season is done,  we have moved the men's games up to 7:00  start time,  So  the   teams playing at 8:00  must bring  one  referee,  a  second  player to keep books and clock would be wonderful but not mandatory,   than the teams that play at 7:00    each  send two  guys to ref and keep the books/clock.


If you play at:
7:00  you ref at  8:00
8:00   you  ref at 7:00 and 9:00
9:00 you ref at  10:00
10  you  clean up the building

Week 12 Standings

Week 12   standings
Men:

		Men's standings	Wins	Losses
1)		LakeNokomis	12	0
2)		Maple Grove	8	2
3)		St.Paul	8	3
4)		Eden Prairie	8	4
5)		Princeton	5	4
6)		Shingle Creek	5	4
7)		Elm Creek	6	5	2 forfeits
8)		TC1,Spanish	6	5
9)		Bloomington	6	5
10)		Blaine	5	6
11)		North St. Paul	5	6
12)		Shore View	5	6
13)		Weaver Lake	4	5
14)		Plymouth	5	6
15)		Med.Lake	4	7	1 Forfeit
16)		YSA b	4	7
17)		YSA	2	8	3 Forfeits
18)		Anoka	0	10
19)		Minnetonka	0	4	Drop out
20)		TC2 Hmong	0	1	drop out

2013 SAMS LDS Young Menn's basketball champions, Andover

Andover:
Congrats  to the 2013
SAMS LDS   Young Men's
basketball champions

    And on a personal note,  not only were they very good,  they played with class and grace  and  great sportsmanship.  Well done.

No forfeits

Tournaments are coming up, remember two forfeits and your team is out. Men's teams remember missing referee assignments count as a forfeit.