What’s up bballspotlight it’s your boy Champ coming at you with the highlights of my week. My week started off with practice Tuesday and Friday to get ready to play in the Baltimore Elite tournament in Chantilly VA Mother’s Day weekend. This weekend the whole family made the trip, which is unusual considering my brother plays ball and my sister sings, dances, and plays ball. But this weekend my brother’s team was in the same tournament and my sister didn’t have anything to do. It was a great weekend.
Saturday we opened the tournament against the Fairfax Stars out of VA. We led that game from start to finish and cruised to victory. Our second game Saturday we played the Metro Hawks from NY. The NY kids came out playing tough and at the half we were up by a few points. But in the second half we got it going and pulled away from them for the victory. Those two victories gave us first place in our pool and into the playoff rounds. Our quarterfinal game was scheduled for 10:30pm Saturday night. This was a first for me to play that late and it was against our nemesis DC Team Takeover. We beat them a few weeks ago in Pittsburgh in the semifinals with a buzzer beater and they came out looking for revenge. They took an early 20-5 lead and were cruising until about 10 minutes left in the game when we started our assault. We scratched and clawed our way back into the game. With 1.6 seconds on the clock we fouled their guard down by 1 to put him on the line. He hit the first and missed the second. I grabbed the rebound and hit ahead to Corey at half court and he drained the 3 at the buzzer for the victory 54-53. What a victory to advance to Semifinals on Sunday.
Sunday we played another top-notch program The Playaz from NJ in the semifinal game. The last time we saw them we beat them in there own Blow Up tournament 2009 and knew they wanted some get back. We were just too much for them this time around as we came out with guns blazing and cruised to victory to play in the championship game. In the championship game we played a team named Expressions we heard they where from Boston. In the championship we played really well, I think we are starting to gel as a unit and on our way to more championships as we handily defeated this good team to win our first championship of the season. It was a good feeling for me considering we had lost the championship game in our last two tournaments. Check back next week for results of this weekend’s tournament the DC Assault hosted Take Your Best Shot.
