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Dear Force Parents,

We wanted to thank Coach Scotty and Tracie for making this past SASF Tournament weekend such a special one. We owe so much to them for all the work they do for us in making our trip so well planned out. Our boys have so much fun with the two of you and are so lucky to have you part of our family.

It was a great weekend for our boys to hang out with each other and to play some basketball. We started off the weekend pretty good with Coach Scotty, Kelli and Reed almost making it to the final four in the 3-ball shootout. They were the only team not from Sacramento but were eliminated by "jacket man" and his half-court shots. On Saturday morning we played the SF Associates who were a 5th grade team from the Bay area who had won their league this past winter as well as taking the Championship in the San Jose Tournament for our age group. We came out playing hard and stayed focused even though we had problems with their 1-2-2 and 1-3-1 defenses. The end result was a 20 point victory that put us in the winners bracket and a game against the number two seed Betsuin 6th grade team.

In the afternoon game we ran accross not one or two big players but three of them with one of them being their point guard and left handed. We had a hard time trying to get the ball inside and our outside shots were not falling but we kept the game closer than the final score appeared as we ended up on the shorter side of a 20 point loss.

The Sunday game was the second meeting between the Force and the BAAS Dragon 6th grade team. The last time we saw them we were down 18-2 within the first four minutes of the game. This time we were down 25-20 at halftime which was a great improvement but we had too many turnovers in the second half and we showed a little nervousness and tentative ballhandling which turned into easy lay-ups for the Dragons. In the end we were on another 20 point loss but we feel as a team we learned some important lessons during these three games.

We will continue with our Friday night at the warehouse starting at 9:00 p.m., We also will be having practice this Saturday but not sure when or where yet but we've sent out e-mails to try and find out as soon as possible as we know everyone has a busy schedule. We only have a few weeks to prepare for the WLA Tournament and we hope we can take the lessons that we have learned from this weekend and improve them before our next tournament.

Let me know if you have a problem with practice this Saturday.

Have a great week and we will update this site in a couple days.