Sunday, July 11, 2010
Tournaments
The
Saratoga Sparks 14U
basketball team took sixth place in the 2010 AAU Girls Basketball
National Championship Tournament held July 6-10 at ESPN’s Wide
World of Sports complex in Orlando, Florida. The team is comprised
of Section II freshmen players who finished their regular AAU
season undefeated with 30 wins. At the National Tournament, the
Sparks were 5 and 3 against a field of 40 of the best teams in the
United States. The Sparks are the first local team in recent memory
to finish this high in the AAU National Championship Tournament.
The Sparks advanced all the way to the Elite Eight round.
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Demand Cassie Broadhead Madison
Rowland Sydney Rosales AAU Girls
Basketball National Championship
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Tournaments
Gym Ray Challenge Website: The Saratoga Sparks 14-under
division team came to Sunday's games at the GymRat Challenge
tournament without its head coach as Tony Mingione missed the event
for a family function, and without one of its better players, whose
opts not to play in Sunday games due to religious reasons.
But those seeming handicaps did nothing to derail the championship
run of the Saratoga Sparks, who used strong overall team play and a
well-designed strategy to advance to Sunday night's championship
contest of the 6th annual GymRat CHALLENGE for girls where it
earned a 56-40 victory over the New York Gauchos.
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Rosales Cassie Broadhead Jackie
Welch