7th Grade Blue-March 12-13

The YBA Dawgs 7th grade Blue team is on a roll in March - back-to-back 3-0 tournament victories! Brandon Thong, acquired before the NBA trading deadline from the Black team, has been a powerful force down low, scoring many points and calmly dropping in free throws. In the March 13th championship game, the Dawgs fought off a strong E-Time Hoops team featuring the non-identical fast talking twins. Logan Echeverria calmly sank two free throws to ice the game in the final seconds and win by two. In the March 6th championship game against the All-Star Predators, the Dawgs shot the lights out from downtown with Alex Isola, Ty Williams, and Dom Pericin hitting under pressure, and Jack Kearns draining two three's in the fourth quarter to put the game out of reach.

Defense has been the key to the Dawgs success. Cole Kelly applies constant ball pressure, Alex Patton is dominant on the boards, and Dom gets his usual few steal/breakaways each game. Hands are all over the passing lanes - poor opponents! The YBA Dawgs recently traded their heart and soul player Michael Downen to the Black team, but owe him a debt of gratitude for the passion and intensity that he instilled in this team. Attitude award to Kyle Turner and Hustle award to Nick Cherry. Dave Garcia has been working hard in practice and showing much more poise handling the ball this year. Go Dawgs keep up the amazing breakthrough performances.