Just For The Fun Of It

Results of Games Played Monday October 1, 2018

Celtics 51 (Ben Mignault 5, Huw Davis-Phinney 10, Andrew Almeida 2, Isaac Saunders-Lambert 2, Brady Hennigar 6, Jude Bustard 4, Kyle Cifala 10, Ashwin Burra 2, Matthew Mignault 2, Victor Chowdhury 2)
Warriors 25 (Evan Joy 10, Evan Warren 2, Osten Mercer 2, Alexander DeBoer 2, Jacob Djankovic 1, Westley Card 6, Brady Kyle 2)

Hawks 44 (Grady McAuley 12, Henry Seymour 12, Zack Flake 4, Delali Afidenyo 8, Hayden Hollywood 2, Caleb Olding 2, Jacob Freeman 2, Matthew Tenenhouse 2)
Bulls 37 (Tyreese Tapper 8, Jabin Arbeau 4, Brendan Dalton 4, Angelo Agostino 4, Bill McIlroy 2, Jackson MacNeill 2, Henry Seymour 13)

Sixers 54 (Dylan Graham 2, Evan Anderson 4, Conor Murphy 12, Aiden Kelly 4, Curtis Bird 6, Aiden Christmas 10, Max Gill 10, Noah Benoit 6)
Heat 43 (Finn Ferrall 6, Emmitt Irwin 13, Grady Irwin 2, Rowan Lloyd 4, Graydon Garett 8, Evan Jarvis 7, Gavin McLaughlin 1, Harrison Andrew 2)

We are thrilled to announce that the East Side Mario’s restaurant at the corner of Weller Avenue and Division Streets has agreed to host a fund raiser for us on November 21, 2018. On that day, at this location only, 10% of restaurant sales between 11 am and closing will come back to the league, or $500, whichever is greater. We welcome East Side Mario’s to our family of supporters, and thank Lana Saunders and the management at the restaurant for believing in what we do for the children in the community. mark your calendars, check the menu and make plans to be at East side Mario’s November 21! We will provide lots of updates between now and then!

Once again this year Monica O’Neil and the Kingston Frontenacs Booster Club have VERY generously donated coupons for all of our players and volunteers as well as for the students at St. Francis of Assisi. The coupons provide a FREE order of Cheesy Bread with the purchased of any large 3 topping pizza. We will begin distributing the coupons to our players and volunteers next week as we begin the season.

Our merchandise team will be at both gyms this week for clothing sales and to take orders for anyone wanting to purchase a 1/4 zip sweatshirt. T shirts are $15 for short sleeve, $20 for long sleeve, league touques are $15 and the 1/4 zip Sweatshirts are $35. Should we run our of your size of T shirt from our stock we will order one for you.

DON’T PROCRASTINATE. The clothing sales end October 24. We will then place our final order for the season so that we can have the merchandise in before we break for Christmas.

Last night we had the last of our Shooting Skills Clinics for this season with our guest clinicians Coach Dave Wilson and some of his players teaching players from our Little Gals Division some tips on how to be better shooters. Our thanks to all of them for committing an evening away from their families and studies to spend time with our players. We know that our players learned a lot, and hopefully the Queen’s basketball program has some new fans too!

The coaches meeting was held last night and below is the practice schedule for teams next week. The coaches should be contacting players in the next couple of days to let them know what team they are on.

Graduate Division

Monday Sept. 24 at Ecole Cathedrale
5:30 – Celtics and Warriors
6:30- Heat and Hawks
7:30- Bulls and Sixers

Biddy Division

Monday Sept. 24 at St. Francis of Assisi
6:00 – Vikings and Suns
6:45 – Tarheels and Orange
7:30 – Magic and Ravens
8:15 – Grizzlies and Cavaliers

Little Guys Division

Tuesday Sept. 25 at St. Francis of Assisi
6:00 – Wolfpack and Wildcats
6:45 – Tarheels and Jayhawks
7:30 – Huskies and Hoosiers
8:15 – Rebels and Mustangs

Girls Division

Wednesday Sept. 26 at St. Francis of Assisi
6:00 – Monarchs and Sparks
6:45 – Sting and Storm
7:30 – Comets and Mercury
8:15 – Starzz and Liberty

Little Gals Division

Thursday Sept. 27 at St. Francis of Assisi
6:00 – Aztecs and Rebels
6:45 – Lions and Golden Gals
7:30 – Slammers and Tigers
8:15 – Monarchs and Rockers

The Little Guys Shooting Skills Clinic was a huge success tonight, thanks to the skills of clinicians Greg Faulkner and Lisa Minutillo, both of whom have extensive overseas basketball experience. They were supported by Paul Medeiros and Matt Charlton for drills and the turnout of players was excellent. Our thanks to all four of these fine shooters for taking the time away from their personal lives to make a difference in the lives of our players.

Last night the St. Lawrence College men’s and women’s basketball teams went to Cathedral and to St. Francis of Assisi to run shooting skills clinics for our players in the Girls, Biddy and Graduate Divisions. We had a great turn out, and enthusiastic participation by the players and coaching staffs from both teams. There are some photos posted on our Facebook page from the clinics at St Francis of Assisi and as soon as photos from the Grad sessions arrive we will post them as well.

We can’t thank Remy Simpson, Barry Smith, Kevin Smart and Kevin Biggs enough for making this happen. Your players were tremendous role models for our players to see “up close and personal” and hopefully your players found some new fans! Thanks for believing in what we do. We will post the SLC schedule under events on our web site.

ATTENTION ALL LEAGUE COACHES: The Performance Lab for the Advancement of Youth Sport (PLAYS) at Queen’s University will be delivering the Transformational Coaching in Sport Workshop to all interested coaches for the upcoming season on Saturday October 27 beginning at 9 am. The workshop will be free of charge and will provide evidence-informed techniques for coaches to help develop their coaching effectiveness and enhance their interpersonal relationships with players. Jennifer Turnnidge, the workshop leader, will be at the coaches meeting September 19 to provide more details. A sign up sheet will be available for all interested coaches and we encourage you to take advantage of this FREE workshop.