Syracuse Pre-National Carrier Dome Tournament
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Tournament Date: June 19 - 20, 2010
The Pre-Nationals gave our team the opportunity to play top quailty "A" teams and to be better prepared for our first Blue Chip Tournament in a couple of weeks at Penn State.
Our first game was a back and forth battle between the Ontario Storm, with our team coming out with a five point victory.
Game two started off great with our team totally dominating the Syracuse Select team and a quick double digit lead. Then all of a sudden the basket shrunk or the basketball expanded because we just couldn't buy a basket. A good effort, but a loss in the end evened our record to 1-1 for the tournament.
Playing our third game in less than 9 hours in the Carrier Dome the same day, just was not conducive to playing at the level we are accustomed to. We lost to last years 3rd nationally ranked 14U team from New Hampshire. In that game we lost a very important team member, Miranda Daucher, to an injury that sent her in an ambulance and to the hospital. Fears of a possible ruptured spleen, weighed heavily on our team as we all went to sleep that night.
Game four the next day was a tough game against a very good Western Mass. squad. Though the score at the end was not indicative of how hard we played, the loss put our record to 1 - 3 for the tournament.
Great news was shared during the game as Miranda sat with us on the bench and ended up with a much better prognosis on her health then was originally diagnosed.
Gus Macker next and than Penn State.
Our first game was a back and forth battle between the Ontario Storm, with our team coming out with a five point victory.
Game two started off great with our team totally dominating the Syracuse Select team and a quick double digit lead. Then all of a sudden the basket shrunk or the basketball expanded because we just couldn't buy a basket. A good effort, but a loss in the end evened our record to 1-1 for the tournament.
Playing our third game in less than 9 hours in the Carrier Dome the same day, just was not conducive to playing at the level we are accustomed to. We lost to last years 3rd nationally ranked 14U team from New Hampshire. In that game we lost a very important team member, Miranda Daucher, to an injury that sent her in an ambulance and to the hospital. Fears of a possible ruptured spleen, weighed heavily on our team as we all went to sleep that night.
Game four the next day was a tough game against a very good Western Mass. squad. Though the score at the end was not indicative of how hard we played, the loss put our record to 1 - 3 for the tournament.
Great news was shared during the game as Miranda sat with us on the bench and ended up with a much better prognosis on her health then was originally diagnosed.
Gus Macker next and than Penn State.
