VFW

Dear Force Parents, Well, another exciting weekend by our team. Three great games starting off with a victory over the SEYO Champions OCO on Friday night. After trailing at halftime 15-16 we came to play defense in the second half holding OCO to only 2 points in a dramatic 25-18 win. In our second game we faced the second place team from CYC with a 7-3 regular season record, the Mustangs Ninja Storm. In another tough battle our defense again had to come through with two great stops in the last 25 seconds of the game for a 18-17 victory. The Championship Game was against our newest challenge the FOR Ikaika Warriors. Our team came out a little nervous but played hard, we trailed at halftime 7-17. The second half was a different story as we ran and played extremely hard together as a team. The result was a 20-34 defeat but we played them pretty even in the second half 13-17. We missed 8 free throws and several lay-ups in this game, it could have been another wild finish. So we ended up in second place in this years FOR Tournament, not bad for a team that is suppose to peak in August later this year. We're 5-1 in the last two tournaments playing in the Gold Division and have beaten the SEYO (9-1) OCO Champions, the (10-0) CBO Champions, the Warriors, the second place (8-2) FOR Victory, the second place (7-3) CYC Mustangs Ninja Storm as well as Norwalk the VFW 2005 Silver Division Champions. We will need to do plenty of work before the Tigers tournament on Memorial Weekend. We are getting better at getting to the free throw line. In the WLA tournament we shot as a team 8 for 19 which was 42% and in the FOR Tournament we shot 17 for 36 which improved to 47% from the line. Our goal is to be 55% at the next Tigers Tournament but to be at 70% by the Dodgers tournament in Las Vegas in August 2006. Thanks again to all the Force Parents for being so supportive to our team, we couldn't have done it without you. I will be sending out the practice schedule for this week by Tuesday. We will only practice one day this week (Friday or Saturday) due to Mothers Day on Sunday 5/14/06. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns from the past two tournaments or for anything else that may be happening. Talk to you all soon, Coach Mark