Cal Stars Basketball

The Cal Stars 2014 (8th Grade) team just completed a great run at the Nike End of the Trail Youth Shootout in Oregon City, Oregon. The Tournament ran from June 25th - June 28th and featured some of the regions top 2014 teams.

The Stars won their opener big but had rally from a double digit deficit in round two to knock of the Tukwilla Reign. In the Semi-Final Game the Stars agin rallied back from a double digit deficit only to come up short to the eventual Tournament Champion Seattle YEA Elite.

After the tough loss the Stars rallied back to beat the top two teams in Oregon. The Stars fell behind early to Oregon City (Host Team) to win going away by 20 points. In the 3rd place game the Stars got a rematch with Team Concept out of Oregon. Team Concept knocked them out the of the tournament last year when they were 7th graders. It appeared like history was going to repeat as the athletic Team Concept squad opened up and early 13 point lead at 19-6. To their credit the Stars hung around in the game cutting it to single digits midway through the 2nd half. At the 5:15 mark the Stars put together a 12-0 run and took a 3 point lead with a minute to go. In the end the Stars put the gamne away, winning 57-50 and taking home the 3rd Place Trophy.

The Stars 2014 team now will take a couple weeks off before going to Ohio on July 13-15 and San Diego July 28-31. Great Job Stars. The Results of the tournament can be found at the following link:

www.eotbasketball.com/results%20youth%202.htm