No Mercy Tournament - 7th Grade

2012 10th Annual Summer Classic-No Mercy North Peninsula Force Tournament in Pacifica

Submitted by L. Gisler (7th grade TM):

Oh they so silly!

First game was on Saturday, 1:15 against the Benecia Black.   The game started off with B.Gisler forgetting his shoes so L. Murphy lent him his lime green pair to wear.  A little tight, but workable!  All the boys seem to be wearing such a wide array of shoe colors these days!  First quarter showed some nice passing by E.Cha, and good defense by N.Conner & K.Ayson which allowed us to lead 11 - 5.  Second quarter there was a great deny by D.Lee, a couple of clean passes from B.Gisler to T.Ambulkar which lead to scores, super assists by R.Parilla , and an awesome steal by J.Ignacio, which kept the score about even at half time. 

7th grade chowing down on some beach BBQ

Second half brought an in-the-air steal by M.McKinney, a flying deny by B.Gisler, and some solid scoring by E.Haynes.  But unfortunately, The Benecia Black was a tough team which didn't let up, and their defense was quick to shut down our offense, so the game was lost 40 to 46 at the end.  I think the boys feel that if they get a chance to play The Benecia Black again, the outcome would be very different if Uptempo just played the game they know how to play.

With 3 hours to spare til the afternoon game many of the players headed to the beach to enjoy a beautiful day.  But around 5pm it was announced there wouldn't be a second game due to a forfeit, so the boys were disappointed they wouldn't play again that day, but it allowed them to eat a second helping of delicious BBQ lunch!

Sunday was a 9:40am game and the opponent was Payes Jr. team.  The boys dominated the scoreboard right from the get-go.  The highlight of the game was that Coach Rene promised that he would do 100 push-ups if L.Murphy scored a 3-pointer. So, L.Murphy came through and swanked one a second before the first half ended! which put the team into a happy frenzy.  Coach Rene conceded that he'll honor his bet, hopefully at a practice that all the boys attend to witness first hand! (footnote:  Coach did his push ups). 

Final score was 66 to 19.