3 on 3 Coaches vs. Cancer Tournament Winners
3 on 3 Coaches vs. Cancer Tournament Winners
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Schedule court repair for different times than Carlos Strong Basketball Academy
Everyone knows I am a big proponent of the Oconee County Parks and Recreation Department. I have also been very critical of some of the aspects of the Oconee Veterans Park facilities in terms of some design and execution, and to the OCPRD's credit, they have generally responded favorably of at least taking my suggestions into consideration if not out and out remedying the situation. Somehow on the north end of the new gym, when we would receive a particularly ferocious storm coming in from just the right angle, water and rain would seep in under the doors and got under the wonderful wooden basketball court. Now the swollen water-logged basketball court was a long time in developing with the precipitation and a short time in correcting, but why on a Sunday during the first attempt at the new Carlos Strong Basketball Academy? A former NBA player and McDonald's All American should not have to be pushing a broom around the court mid-session to remove the sawdust from the basketba...
Premier League semifinals Friday at the Athens Academy Middle School gym
Lowell Matthews dribbles the ball up the court at Oconee Practice Gym. Conner Hatch and Carson Pittard join him on the Athens Academy A-Team. Photos by Dan Matthews The 5th grade division of the Athens Premier League has been a fierce battle all this brief basketball season, and the post-season tournament has been no exception with that stiff competition continuing. The defending champion Athens Academy will play host to the top seed Malcolm Bridge with Coach Kevin Daniel and the confident star Jack Mangel 7:30 pm Friday on the Spartans home court at the Middle School gym. This will be a mammoth battle, a clash of the titans if you will. Athens Academy Coach Chris Pittard and most of this team including the lanky Alex Deltchev, Drew Byus, Connor Hatch, Taylor Boswell and speedy off guard Owen Roberts scouted the Thunder of Malcolm Bridge Wednesday in their opening round 33-10 rout of an overmatched Prince Avenue squad at the main gymnasium inside Oconee County High School...