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Dear Force Parents,

We would like to congratulate our boys for a great weekend winning the championship of the West Los Angeles Tournament in the 5th grade gold division.

It was our first full tournament switching to the mens ball and having our players play in different positions.

We opened on Saturday with a win over the FOR Vipers 33-15, then on to the mall to hang out, have lunch and relax for our second game against the San Fernando Dragons. It was one year ago that the Dragons beat us in this same tournament for the championship trophy so we had prepared our boys for their pick-n-roll that beat us last year. The result was a hard fought game that ended in a win 33-27, the bad news was that Travis ended up having a buckle fracture to his right wrist and will be put in a cast this week, all of us are wishing Travis a speedy recovery. In the championship game we faced the FOR Victory who have been playing up in 6th grade division in their CBO league. It was a very defensive game with the halftime score Force 8, Victory 5 !!!! We were having match up problems trying to play defense against them in different situations but our boys were successful in coming out with a 24-18 win and the championship for this years 20th WLA Tournament.

We have plenty of work cut out for us before the Tigers Tournament at the end of May. We struggled from the free throw line going 3/8, 1/8 and 10/28 for a total of 14/44 and a 32% percentage for the tournament. We will be working on this quite a bit this next month. Another area we need to improve on is our turnovers as we had 19, 20 and 19 in our three games, we will be concentrating on our rebound, outlet and middle drills for quite some time over the next month.

We will be having practice this weekend but do not have a schedule as of today. We will be updating this web hopefully by Thursday if we receive practice time.

Thank you to all the parents who brought snacks and drinks for this weekends game.

Please let us know if you cannot practice this weekend after we post the schedule.

Thanks again, and good job boys on another great tournament.

Mark