Thursday, October 30, 2008

Cookie dough fund-raiser

All three Binghamton Travel Basketball teams will participate in a "cookie dough" fund-raiser, beginning today (Thursday, October 30). The fund-raiser will conclude on Sunday, November 9 (the same day as our tune-up tournament at the downtown YMCA).

Players should hand in their order forms to me that day.

I will be handing out the packets to the Red 5-6 and the Blue 5-6 team members today (at the 6 o'clock practices) and I will get packets to Coach Doherty so he can hand them out to the players on the Binghamton 4-5 squad, as well.

If you have any questions about the sale, please give me a call at 743-0582.
-SJ

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Practice schedules (through Thanksgiving)

These practice schedules are, of course, subject to change, but here's what we have, through the week of Thanksgiving.

Binghamton 5-6 Blue
* October 23 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 2)
* October 30 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 2)
* November 1 (Sat., 8:30 to 10 a.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 1 only)
* November 6 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at Horace Mann
* November 8 (Sat., 8:30 to 10 a.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 1 only)
***NOV. 9 (SUNDAY) YMCA Tune-Up Tournament***
* November 13 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 2)
***NOV. 15 (SATURDAY) League Tournament at JC***
* November 20 (Monday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at Horace Mann
* November 22 (Sat., 8:30 to 10 a.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 1 only)

Binghamton 5-6 Red
* October 23 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 1)
* October 25 (Saturday, 8:30 to 10 a.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 1 only)
* October 30 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 1)
* November 3 (Monday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at Horace Mann
* November 6 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 2)
***NOV. 9 (SUNDAY) YMCA Tune-Up Tournament***
* November 13 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 1)
***NOV. 15 (SATURDAY) League Tournament at JC***
* November 20 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 2)

Binghamton 4-5
October 23 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at Horace Mann
October 27 (Monday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at Horace Mann
October 30 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at Horace Mann
November 6 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 1)
November 7 (Friday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at Horace Mann
***NOV. 9 (SUNDAY) YMCA Tune-Up Tournament***
November 13 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at Horace Mann
***NOV. 15 (SATURDAY) League Tournament at JC***
November 17 (Monday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at Horace Mann
November 20 (Thursday, 6 to 7:30 p.m.) at B-YMCA (Side 1)

Monday, October 20, 2008

Rosters for 2008-09

Binghamton 5-6 Blue
Daenon Davy
Anar Doski
Sarbast Doski
Nate Gaster
Andre Hawkins
Roberto Jensen
Jahira Ramos
Nicky Snyder
Isiah Turner
Alex Vega
*Will Gladney
Head coach: Stephen Jensen (phone 743-0582)

Binghamton 5-6 Red
Tawqeer Aziz
Zion Burwell
James Cardwell
Jonah Chambers
Skyler Fish
Yokobo Francis
Nathan Hagerman
Milton Jimenez
Lorenzo Kennedy
Julien Munoz
Nathan Oliva
Head coach: Nicholas Legos (phone 222-9850)

Binghamton 4-5
Garret Alapeck
Austin Becker-Harris
Roberto Diaz
Patrick Goodman
Jordan Haven
Kyeem Holmes
Benjamin Irwin
Alex Surowka
Casey Walsh
Head coach: Tim Doherty (phone 760-2874)







Introduction to the 2008-09 season

Greetings, all.

I created this blog site as a way to post and share information about our youth basketball program. This season, we will have three teams competing in the Slim Sylvester Travel League (we had just one team participate last season). We wanted to grow the program a bit, since last year we only had 12 student/athletes participating on the one roster. This season, at first glance, we have 33 student/athletes on our rosters.

We held our tryout on Saturday, October 18, at the downtown YMCA, with a very solid turnout. The two-hour tryout session helped evaluate players' talents and to best place them on a team to compete in the league for the 2008-09 season.

Be aware that this is a publically accessible internet destination, so be aware of where you distribute or post the Web address, as I will be posting team rosters and, throughout the season, writing reports about each of our teams.

As we head into our first practice sessions on Thursday, October 23, we have the following teams: Binghamton 5-6 Blue; Binghamton 5-6 Red; and, Binghamton 4-5.

I can be reached most easily by e-mail at: jensens@oacsd.org

Also, while I will try to keep this blog spot updated, you may also want to save the Web site for the league, as it will eventually contain the divisions and schedules for the season (as well as background information about the league): http://tier.net/strage/