CKaTT News

April 3, 2007. London, Ontario.  CKaTT's Major Bantam team (boys born 1993 and later) trekked into the Steel City this past weekend and notched up another deserving medal in the wonderful city of Hamilton. The team had to play all their 3 games on the Saturday to qualify for a Gold championship game in the Blessed Sacrament Club's annual huge tourney.

Coach Glenn Fernandes noted, "I wanted us to get a feel of what we had accomplished thus far prior to the finals in London where we will be aiming for higher berth than last year. This tournament provides the next best thing with a second chance."

The Club fought hard through some questionable officiating in its 1st and 3rd game. The poor results with losses against Whitby Wildcats, Miss Ballers and Guelph Pheonix were mind boggling even for Assistant Coach Romy Divina who said: "We just don't get it. They seem to rattle so easily. They have good fundamentals, good basketball sense. Looks like they were playing in some sort of frozen state all weekend."  Coach Graydon added, "We need to bring our intensity, our A-game, our killer instinct. We can't let teams beat us up on the inside."

Somehow the Team rallied on the Sunday morning coming out from some lackluster efforts on Saturday to totally dominate the 2nd half of a lopsided game against the Oakville Venom on Sunday morning. The Club only allowed 4 points against them in regulation time, a true testament to some great defense.

Though they went down in defeat against the Mississauga Ballers by 10 points in the Championship game on the same Sunday afternoon, it was a great all around effort and a wonderful time of team bonding for the whole team in general from the players up to the coaches and parents who were able to accompany the team.

Coach Glenn chuckled, "Although the gold was attainable, it would seem that silver looks nicer with our CKaTT blue uniforms." Coach Romy added, "There is the biggest challenge in less than 3 weeks and to be honest if we are to contend with other championship teams we need to have a combined effort as a team to move forward."