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Dear Force Parents,

Another great tournament played by the boys both on offense and defense. Our first game against OCO-1 our defense played a big part in our 45-15 win, our second game was against the CBO Champions Venice Wizards and we were a little slow but our defense again helped us to a 30-15 win on Saturday. Our Championship Game on Sunday was against Norwalk who had been Silver Champions in all of their tournaments this year. We came out strong and pushed them for the whole game creating a 35-17 victory to become the 2007 Hollywood Dodgers Tournament Champions.

Our 2007 Tournament Record is 16-2 with Championships in Megalopolis Gold, FOR Gold, Tigers Gold and Dodgers Gold. We have finished second in the WLA Gold and Jets Gold Tournaments losing in the Championship game in both tournaments.

We should be very proud of our boys in what they have accomplished this year. Our free throw shooting helped out in this tournament with key free throws by our whole team. We also heard that Ty had a great free throw game hitting 11-13 and playing "Force" basketball for the OCBC Lightning team. But the biggest compliment came from the Varsity Head Coach of Silverado High School who came specifically to watch our boys play in all three games. He said our boys play the game like it's supposed to be played with good defense, good passing, structured offense and a full team effort. He also told the boys that if anyone of them was moving to Las Vegas that they could move into his school area and play for him anytime.

We are going to be taking a break but that shouldn't mean not touching the basketball. Our break is mostly for the parents and not for our players. We won't be practicing again until after school starts in September. Please have your son shoot and dribble until we meet again.

Have a great rest of the summer and we'll see you in September as we prepare for our next travel tournament to San Francisco in October.

We also need to pay Jon or Wendy another $8.00 for the last practice we had at Tustin Ranch Salvation Army on Monday 8/6/07.

Mark