Da FAM Club Travel teams competed in the Chris Ragazzi Memorial tournament in East Hartford this past weekend.
Our 7th/8th grade girls dropped their 1st two games to the Hartford area teams,losing to the Boys & Girls Club 5points and to the Hartford city Stars by 2points. On sunday they won their final 2 games over the Springfield Lady Ballers and also Newington Travel to finish the weekend 2-2. In the Boys division the 6th grade team went 4-0 in pool play with wins over Wethersfield Travel,Waterbury Pal,CT Knights(Hartford)and Middletown Travel, the eventual tourney Champion in a a Overtime thriller by 3 points..The same went four Our 7th grade team which competed in the 8th grade B division they went 3-0 in pool play with wins over East Coast Elite(New Haven),Waterbury Pal & Ellington Travel. But in the Championship game we fell short after the Ellington Travel team took a 6 point lead out of the Half an held the ball from the start of half(16min) and didn't look to shoot the ball until there was 3 minutes left on the clock. Talking about holding the ball...We eventually stole the ball 3 straight possesions to tie the Game but a Intentional foul was called against us under 30 seconds left in the game and they won by 3 points...