Mandan Tournament

The Mandan Boys club is hosting a tourny this weekend.  J's team played 2 games yesterday.  First game was against the Sheyenne Skyhawks.  This is apparently another WoodLake team.  The monstrously tall boy from the GF tourny was on this team.  I think he's grown since then, too.  The Skyhawks lead early.  One of their players plays in the NBA when he's not attending 6th grade.  Rumor is he was playing with a broken toe.  I'd hate to face him with 10 healthy toes!
 Hard to focus on picture taking when the games are tense.

 Our best strategy was to get #32 to foul out, which he did.  This boy don't need to jump.  He just needs to keep his hands up.   

Kind of a blurry shot, but Jonathan completed a reverse lay up about 1.2 seconds after this shot.  It was cool.

The next game was against a Moorhead team.  They shot and made a ton of 3 pointers.  Swish.  Swish.  Swish.  They are coached by Bismarck native Kevin Feeny, who played QB for the Bison in the mid 90s.  This was during the time that UND prevailed over NDSU, so I will take glory in that, as the Moorhead team but us by 1 lousy point.  The boys were down by as much as 11, but were able to take the lead briefly in the second half by as much as 4.  Our lack of an effective press breaker hurt us bad.  The boys have played from behind quite a bit this year and have kept their cool, but did get frustrated this game and had a harder time settling down.

3rd place game is at 10 am this morning, against the Minot team we beat for 1st at our last tournament.