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What: GriffinSportsMarch Madness Basketball Tournament

Where: St. John South Euclid Lutheran School

When: March 11th and 12th

Who: Grades 

3rd and 4th            

5^th and 6^th

Cost: $125/Team

All teams will be guaranteed three games.

Trophies and medals will be awarded to the top two teams in each division.

An all tournament team will be selected by the coaches and officials.

If interested contact:

Clarence Griffin at:

216-408-4482 or

Clarence@griffinsports.net

For more information log on to:

www.griffinsports.net/basketball  

Highlights of the GriffinSports 2010 March Madness Basketball Tournament

Great Job to all of the teams, coaches, players and fans who made the second annual Griffin Sports March Madness Basketball Tournament a great and exciting tournament!

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Thanks  to the Trojans who played ten 7^th graders and two 8^th graders, but showed a competitive spirit and a never give up attitude that will eventually make them a better team “Down the Road”. Keep up the hard work. As the Legendary NC State Head Coach Jim Valvano once said, before he died of cancer, “Never give up, don’t ever give up”.

Click Here to Listen to the 1993 Jim Valvano ESPY Speech. Never give up, don’t ever give up!

I also want to thank our two Charter Schools, Apex Academy and New Day Academy, who brought a great deal of excitement and competition to our tournament. I want to applaud both coaches for a job well done! 

Great job to the Wrecking Crew who featured as talented an 8^th grade team that there is in this area. The Wrecking Crew, who finished 3-1, featured 9 impact players who will certainly make a major impact on their future high school programs (Kenston, Chagrin Falls, and Orange) next year. I would not be surprised if a few of the boys are contributing varsity minutes as freshmen next year.

Lastly, I want to congratulate our tournament champions Team Bethany. Bethany who suffered a double digit loss to the Wrecking Crew earlier in the tournament, who were down by double digits in the second half in the championship game to the talented Wrecking Crew, used clutch three point shooting and tenacious defense down the stretch to force the game into overtime. Then in overtime Team Bethany, who finished runner-up in the Griffin Sports  “March Madness” Tournament in 2009 were not to be denied their first Griffin Sports Championship and defeated the Wrecking Crew 48-46 in OT. Great Job!

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On June 16-18 2011, GriffinSports competed in the State Tournament: Highlights for GriffinSports were:

• Ricky Downer, who had three hits, including a double, two stolen bases, and scored a run.
• Ardell Cloud, who had three hits, including two doubles, and an RBI.
• CJ Griffin, who had four hits, including a double, two walks, a stolen base, scored a run, and an RBI.
• Zach Peters, who had three hits, a walk, and a stolen base. Zach also pitched five innings with three strikeouts.
• Jonathan Griffn, who had two hits and two stolen bases.
• Jacob Cantrell, who had three hits, including a double, two walks, a stolen base, and scored a run. Jake also pitched two innings with one strikeout.
• Kevin Keane, who had two walks, two stolen bases, and scored a run.
• Alex Wojtala, who had a hit and two stolen bases. Alex also pitched five strong inning with three strikeouts, and only allowing two earned runs.
• Griffin Hornyak, who had a hit.
• Anthony Delgado, who had a walk. Anthony also pitched five strong innings against the #1 team in the state, with one strikeout.
• Tommy Foster, who pitched seven innings, with two strikeouts and only allowing two earned runs against the #5 team in the state.

In 2010 The GriffinSports 15U Baseball Team played in the 15u State Tournament. Highlights for GriffinSports were:

• Kevin Keane who hit .600 in the tournament (9-15) including two doubles, scored three runs, four walks, one RBI and one stolen base. Kevin is now second on the team in hitting (.378).Kevin also made a game saving play at second base when he started a doubleplay in the bottom of the seventh inning.
• Ardell Cloudwho leads the team in hitting (.442) and On-Base Percentage (.698)had four hits including a double, three RBIs, five walks including an intentional walk and scored a run. But most amazingly Ardell caught every inning of the entire tournament when he had to battle the 90+ degree temperatures for three days in a row.
• Jacob Cantrell who is second on the team with a (.526) On-base percentage, had four hits, scored two runs, four walks, one stolen base and an RBI.
• CJ Griffin who is third on the team with a (.512) On-Base percentage and second on the team in runs (8)  had four hits, three walks, scored five runs, two RBIs and a stolen base. CJ was also the winning pitcher when with one out and the winning run on third base he pitched out of the jam forcing the game into extra innings.
• Zach Peters, who leads the team in ERA (3.50) took a perfect game into the fifth inning in game one, he also had three hits and four RBIs
• Alex Wojtala, who is second on the team in ERA (4.10) and leads the team in strikeouts (16) pitched 10 innings and had six strikeouts. He also had three hits, scored three runs, two walks and an RBI.
• Alejandro Gonzalez Jr. who leads the team in stolen bases (8), and runs scored (10), had two doubles, three stolen bases, scored two runs, two walks and two RBIs

Results and highlights from The GriffinSports 16U Baseball Tournament

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Game One

Ohio Massasagus defeated GriffinSports (Gray) 12-0

• Alex Koran pitched a one hitter and Ohio Massasagus scored 10 runs in the fifth inning to defeat GriffinSports (Gray).

Game Two

GriffinSports (Blue) after trailing early in the game 5-1 rallied and scored 14 runs in three innings to defeat GriffinSports (Gray) 15-5

• Will Wagner had 11 strikeouts for GriffinSports (Blue)
• Zach Peter had a hit, a walk and scored a run for GriffinSports (Gray).

Game Three

Behind strong pitching from Lucas Daugherty, CUDA baseball defeated The Middleburg Hts. Hurricanes 3-2. 

• Lucas Daugherty pitched  a 1 hitter/no earned run,  complete game.
• Bromund pitched two strong innings and Bramante pitched two strong innings

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All Tournament Team

Doug Dorsey (Blue Wave) Tournament MVP

Rodney Bassett (GriffinSports)

Mike Hollick (West Side Hornets)

Cody Timosko (Blue Wave)

David Goodgame (Cleveland RBI)

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Results and highlights from The GriffinSports 18U Baseball Tournament.

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The Westside Hornets defeated GriffinSports 8-4 in Game One of the GriffinSports 18U Baseball Tournament. Highlights from Game One were:

• From the West-Side Hornets, Billy Valletto (Who will be playing college baseball next year at Cuyahoga Community College), pitched seven strong innings with 10 strikeouts. Cincinnati Reds prospect Mike Hollick went 4-4 with two triples, a double, a single, a stolen base and four RBIs. Mike also saved a run with a diving catch on a sinking line drive in center-field. 
• From GriffinSports, Ardell Cloud had two hits and scored a run. Rodney Bassett pitched seven strong innings only giving up three earned runs with four strikeouts.

The Blue Wave defeated The Westside Hornets 15-9 in Game Two of the GriffinSports 18U Baseball Tournament. Highlights from Game Two were:

• From the West-Side Hornets, Cincinnati Reds prospect Mike Hollick went 2-3 with a triple. Mike is now hitting .857 in the tournament. Jake Hannum pitched five strong innings for the no-decision.
• From The Blue Wave, Joe Bernabei hit two triples and a double. Matt Litty was 3-4.  Jake Hyer was the winning pitcher in relief pitching three innings without giving up an earned run. 

The Blue Wave defeated Cleveland RBI 11-3 in Game Three of the GriffinSports 18U Baseball Tournament. Highlights from Game Three were:

• From the Blue Wave, Doug Dorsey pitched five strong innings giving up no earned runs and four strikeouts.  
• From Cleveland RBI, Jordan Durham pitched three shut-out innings. 

Cleveland RBI defeated GriffinSports 15-3 in Game Four of the GriffinSports 18U Baseball Tournament. Highlights from Game Four were:

• From Cleveland RBI, David Goodgame had five RBI’s including a bases loaded triple, a single and scored two runs. Jeremiah Thomsen pitched four inning without giving up an earned run. 
• From GriffinSports, Nolan Grenig had an RBI single and scored a run.  

The Westside Hornets defeated Cleveland RBI 4-1 in Game Five of the GriffinSports 18U Baseball Tournament. Highlights from Game Five were:

• From the Westside Hornets, Kyle Kvasnicka pitched six innings (90 pitches) giving up one run with five strikeouts. Zack Hausmann had two hits including a double and he scored a run. Mike Hollick had two hits including a stand-up triple.
• From Cleveland RBI, Nick Riolo from Michgan State pitched six innings, six strikeouts, giving up three earned runs. Michael Burke from Buffalo University had two hits. Andy Garcia from Cuyahoga Community College had two hits.

The Blue Wave defeated GriffinSports 8-5 in Game Six of the GriffinSports 18U Baseball Tournament. Highlights from Game Six were:

• From the Blue Wave , Doug Dorsey had two walks and scored two runs. Cody Timosko had two hits and scored two runs. 
• From GriffinSports, Nolan Greng had two hits, including a double and scored a run. Ardell Cloud had two hits, two walks had an RBI and scored a run. Rodney Bassett pitched six solid inning with four strikeouts.  

The Championship! Game Seven.

Congratulations to the WestSide Hornets and the Blue Wave for a great Championship game. The Hornets did a great job, jumping out to an 8-2, 6th inning lead and were on the brink of run-ruling the Blue Wave. But, the Blue Wave showed the “Heart of a Champion” and scored nine unanswered runs in the 6th and 7th innings to take an 11-8, 7th inning lead. Even though , the Hornets trailed 11-8 in the bottom of the seventh, they refused to quit, they scored a run and had the tying run on base before the Blue Wave got the final out. Great Job to both teams!!! Highlights from The Championship Game were: 

• From the Westside Hornets, shortstop Jack Hannum was 4-4, scored three runs and one RBI. Zack Hausmann had one hit, two RBIs and scored two runs. Frank Zelley, 6 2/3 inning (94 pitches), five earned runs, four strikeouts
• From The Blue Wave, Tournament MVP Doug Dorsey hit a three run homerun.