YBA Youth Basketball Academy
Founded by Director, Ken Gee in 2004
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
6th Dawgs Black-(played in 7th division) March 26-27
Playing in the 7th grade division for the 2nd week in a row, the DAWGS again found themselves playing in a bracket of unknowns. New teams and new players meant it was going to be a fun weekend for the DAWGS.
The DAWGS faced the Reno Ballers 7th grade team the first game and came out strong. Mixing up their defense and using incredible passing and teamwork, the team handled the team from Reno easily for a 70-30 win.
The second game of the day was against E-Time Hoops 7th grade team. Thought the team played an E-Time Hoops 7th grade last week, this was yet another team. Suffocating defense again was the key, and the DAWGS used their strong guard play and beat the E-Time team 61-28.
The Sunday Championship was againt the Folsom Rage. A team that had also "walked" through their first two games. The DAWGS found themselves down eight points early in the game, and it appeared as if it was going to be tough to comeback as the opposition was playing controlled basketball. Switching up the defense, and applying more pressure to push the tempo of the game, the DAWGS began to chip away at the score.
The defense led to easy baskets, and with some key play from the "bigs" inside, the DAWGS were able to take the lead and hold off the Folsom team for a 41-36 win. Our 6th Grade Dawgs went undefeated in the 7th grade division!
6th Dawgs Blue-March 26-27
The 6th grade DAWGS Blue team went 3-0 this weekend. In our first game, we beat our opponents (Reno Ballers Silver) by 40 or so points. Since this was a weaker team we decided to run through all of our plays and tried to execute all the different options. Though we played a weaker team, we hit our baskets, boxed out strong on the rebounds and passed hit all of our cutters.
Unfortunately we had to play the same team for our second game. We won the second game by 30 or so points. It was a repeat of the first game.
The last game we came out a bit too confident and we played a much more athletic team than the day before. We were down to 6 players and we started sloppy. We were down 8 by the first quarter and a bit less by the half. This new Etime hoops team was athletic and stronger than the boys expected. Coach Lars had to wake the boys up at the half with a strong message. In the second half the boys reacted and executed like we new they could and brought it back. The tied turned when Brendyn Ikeda stopped a break away by taking a strong offensive foul underneath the basket. Nick Ohler started hitting 3's, Jeremy Lillis stopped shots with great shot blocks and made some baskets, Kazik Lewendowski dominated the boards and added to the score with strong put backs, Taylor Ittner had strong underneath defense and got some rebounds, and Everett Libolt scored baskets and made crucial free throws to win the game by a point with only 6 seconds left.
It was our best team effort we have seen yet to come back from behind and win.
7th Black-March 26-27
Game #1
YBA DAWGS 52 vs Redding Celtics 19
The Dawgs came out awake and with energy! The defense was outstanding and the weekend focus was effort, win the rebound battle and keep the turnovers LOW.
Mission sucsess!
Game #2
YBA DAWGS 54 vs Red Raiders 55
In a hard fought battle the boys played great! This game was a see saw battle the whole way! In the end a few rushed plays and offensive rebounds did us in. Coach Gee says " we box out on the free throw line and we win the ball game. I am so proud of the boys thy played a heck of a game and we will learn from this one and become a better team from this loss.
Game #3
YBA DAWGS 48 v Predators Black 31
The Predators had a tough time scoring against the DAWGS defense.
The Defense all weekend was great!
Great team effort here and a great way to end the weekend.
YBA DAWGS 52 vs Redding Celtics 19
The Dawgs came out awake and with energy! The defense was outstanding and the weekend focus was effort, win the rebound battle and keep the turnovers LOW.
Mission sucsess!
Game #2
YBA DAWGS 54 vs Red Raiders 55
In a hard fought battle the boys played great! This game was a see saw battle the whole way! In the end a few rushed plays and offensive rebounds did us in. Coach Gee says " we box out on the free throw line and we win the ball game. I am so proud of the boys thy played a heck of a game and we will learn from this one and become a better team from this loss.
Game #3
YBA DAWGS 48 v Predators Black 31
The Predators had a tough time scoring against the DAWGS defense.
The Defense all weekend was great!
Great team effort here and a great way to end the weekend.
8th Black-March 26-27
YBA 51, Folsom Force Blue 54
The Dawgs played their usual strong first half against an aggressive Folsom team with many points coming from the front line of Colin (10), Bryce (8 points), and Mitch (8). YBA still led by 5 after the 3rd quarter with Bryce pulling off several impressive hustle plays. Folsom turned up the defensive pressure in the 4th quarter and YBA forgot about getting the ball inside. Lack of offensive execution and a few defensive lapses allowed Folsom to come back for the win.
YBA 50, Spirit Got Game 19
The Dawgs were hungry for a win in this game and worked hard on defense from beginning to end. YBA led 32-13 at the half but stayed intense and allowed only 6 points in the 2nd half in a great display of individual and team defense. The team notched 16 assists for the game (led by Nicholas with 4), and 5 players had at least 4 rebounds each (Mitch 8, Colin 7, Bryce 5). Jackson led the scoring with 12 plus 4 boards, and Grady chipped in with 8 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 steals.
YBA 41, Placerville Blazers 38
The Dawgs were tired in this extra 3rd game on Saturday. The coaches took the opportunity to stay pretty quiet on the bench to see how the players reacted. After an uninspired 3.5 quarters, the Dawgs trailed 37-32. Some late defensive pressure (including a couple of steals from Nicholas) produced a few turnovers which YBA converted to baskets to come back for the win.
YBA 68, 209 Elite 23
The team was pumped up after watching the 8th grade Blue team pull out a victory in the previous game. YBA ran out to a 20-5 lead in the 1st quarter and extended the lead to 45-10 at the half, with Jared and several others playing good help defense. The team topped their assists total from the previous game with 22 dimes (Bret, Grady, & Bryce 5 each). Bret led the way with several steals and fast break conversions to tally 22 points. Bryce had a great all-around game with 10 points, 8 boards, 5 assists, and 2 steals. Jared contributed 6 points and 5 rebounds.
The Dawgs played their usual strong first half against an aggressive Folsom team with many points coming from the front line of Colin (10), Bryce (8 points), and Mitch (8). YBA still led by 5 after the 3rd quarter with Bryce pulling off several impressive hustle plays. Folsom turned up the defensive pressure in the 4th quarter and YBA forgot about getting the ball inside. Lack of offensive execution and a few defensive lapses allowed Folsom to come back for the win.
YBA 50, Spirit Got Game 19
The Dawgs were hungry for a win in this game and worked hard on defense from beginning to end. YBA led 32-13 at the half but stayed intense and allowed only 6 points in the 2nd half in a great display of individual and team defense. The team notched 16 assists for the game (led by Nicholas with 4), and 5 players had at least 4 rebounds each (Mitch 8, Colin 7, Bryce 5). Jackson led the scoring with 12 plus 4 boards, and Grady chipped in with 8 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 steals.
YBA 41, Placerville Blazers 38
The Dawgs were tired in this extra 3rd game on Saturday. The coaches took the opportunity to stay pretty quiet on the bench to see how the players reacted. After an uninspired 3.5 quarters, the Dawgs trailed 37-32. Some late defensive pressure (including a couple of steals from Nicholas) produced a few turnovers which YBA converted to baskets to come back for the win.
YBA 68, 209 Elite 23
The team was pumped up after watching the 8th grade Blue team pull out a victory in the previous game. YBA ran out to a 20-5 lead in the 1st quarter and extended the lead to 45-10 at the half, with Jared and several others playing good help defense. The team topped their assists total from the previous game with 22 dimes (Bret, Grady, & Bryce 5 each). Bret led the way with several steals and fast break conversions to tally 22 points. Bryce had a great all-around game with 10 points, 8 boards, 5 assists, and 2 steals. Jared contributed 6 points and 5 rebounds.
JV-March 26-27
The JV Dawgs improved to 2-1 this weekend, up from our first tournament record of 1-2. We really should of been 3-0 as we played well enough to lead by 10 at halftime against E-Time, however, after halftimewe struggled shooting the ball, didn't press well and also didn't win the game. We are improving and will be a very good team once we get more time playing together and also learn the sets and concepts of what we are trying to do. We looked strong in beating another E-time team onSaturdayand also the Dreamers on Sunday. I look forward to the tournament this weekend & can't wait to see how they look!
Coach Adam
Coach Adam
Varsity Dawgs Blue-March 26-27
Game #1 and #2
Game one and two were pretty similar. The guys came out playing great defense. They rebounded great and ran. Everyone ran. We shared the ball on offense which lead both games to a 20 plus point victories.
Game #3
This was a battle the whole game. We had the game under control until the last three minutes. Then the other teams #2 started scoring incredible three's. They caught us then got us in overtime.
Game one and two were pretty similar. The guys came out playing great defense. They rebounded great and ran. Everyone ran. We shared the ball on offense which lead both games to a 20 plus point victories.
Game #3
This was a battle the whole game. We had the game under control until the last three minutes. Then the other teams #2 started scoring incredible three's. They caught us then got us in overtime.
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