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We had another great game on the defensive side today. We were able to shut down their three scorers for the whole game. In fact, the majority of their points came from the shorter free throw line meaning that we were contesting all of the shots that they had. We assigned Brad, Kenny and Trevor in the first group and Reed, Sammy and Jordy in the second group to guard their big three. We had Sunny and Shaq in the middle if they made it past the first line of defense. Christian and Troy were to come from the weak side and double for the steal, they both had a couple of steals during the game. Our offense was better again from the previous week as we continue to work our new 1-3-1 offense with the proper spacing and timing of all the cutters to the basket and looking for our centers as high and lost post threats to score. Today's win guaranteed our team a co-championship for the season. Depending on next weeks game against OCO we will either be champions by ourselves or tied as co-champions for the SEYO league with either an 8-1 or 7-2 season. Remember the 10th week does not count towards the final standings. Remember, we have two practices this week. The first will be on Friday 2/9/07 at Mariners from 6:30-8:30 p.m. This will be a split practice where Coach Jon and Coach Scotty will continue to perfect the offense and our new in-bounds play. I will be working with Shaq and Sunny on their post moves and how to move from high to low posts, footwork and passing inside. Our second practice will be on Saturday 2/10/07 from 5:00-6:30 p.m. at Marina HS in Huntington Beach. Please let Jon or I know if you cannot make either practice. Have a great week and see you on Friday. Mark

Dear Force Parents, As we are entering the last three games of the SEYO season we are going to need a team effort against Norwalk this Sunday. In a four team division the champion is decided after the standings of the ninth week. So if we win against Norwalk this Sunday it would give us a 7-1 record going into week nine against OCO. If we beat OCO we would be champions by ourselves but if we were to lose then we would still be co-champions of the league. The tenth week has nothing to do with the final outcome of the season. We have requested some changes in our schedule for the next couple of Saturday's to be sure we can get everyone to practice. Our practices for the next two Saturday's will be at Marina HS on the South Court (opposite of where we have been practicing before) from 5:00-6:30 p.m. This should help those that have baseball practice during the day. Let me know if you have any questions, please be sure that your child gets plenty of rest and doesn't get sick going into the last 10 days of our season. Thanks, Mark

Dear Force Parents, We should be very proud of our FORCE team today. The boys played as well as ever as a complete team. We had all 10 players score and our man to man defense is getting better each week. We are going to continue to work on our new offense, we also tried our new inbound play and it worked well. We need to work on our half court press break as OCO was using the press on Norwalk today. Currently we don't have a schedule for practice this Saturday but we will try to find out as soon as possible. We also might look for an alternate location for Mariners for this Friday as Saturday seems to be hard for our team with baseball practices. Good job to all the boys, we will have ice cream for everyone since Jordy made it to the free throw line today. Have a great week and watch this website for the practice schedule. Mark

Dear Force Parents, We were not able to move our practice time for this weekend so it will remain the same for Saturday 1/27/07 at Marina HS from 2:00-3:30 p.m. Please try to let us know if you will not be able to make it this week. In last weeks game OCBC beat Norwalk 23-20 so we need to be sure that we don't take OCBC too lightly and we work on our defense that will shut down their two scorers. See you on Saturday, Mark