HOOP SCOOP

Official News letter of the FEBRUARY 4, 2012 METRO BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION VOLUME 21, NUMBER 8

From the Prez…

Honor Roll Students

See Info on Page 2. Coaches Work to Curb Fights

By Kevin Wilkinson – MBA President MBA All-Star Team Selection Soon

In last weeks News there was an article about the rise of violence in sports. It has become so The MBA All Star teams from each Division prevalent in the NBA, college and high schools that it will be selected soon. The games will be played on was a topic of discussion on ESPN’s College Game Saturday, March 3 at United. All three Divisions will Day show last month. It was pointed out that the fault be participating in these games. lies with players, coaches and officials. It was also The Blue division will start at 10:00 a.m.; the pointed out that the coaches are the ones who have to White at 12:00 noon and the Red at 2:00 p.m. We maintain control of their players. will have a PA announcer, lively music and three Saginaw Arthur Hills coach said that they spend very good basketball games. They are always very time during the week talking about sportsmanship and entertaining. We will announce who is on the teams if a confrontation arises to walk away from it. They in the February 18 Hoop Scoop actually talk about nobody leaving the bench if two I hope that everyone will come and support the guys get into a dispute on the floor. They have an players from your team who make the All Star team. assistant coach who is responsible for looking for There will be a small charge for the game. The fee potential trouble on the court during a game. will be $2 for those over 12 years old - children 12 Though I appreciate the fact that this coach is years old and younger get in for free. The $2 charge talking about these things with his players and trying to is good for all three games. avoid them, it is a shame that so much of his valuable We encourage all of the players in the Blue and time with his team has to be taken up with this kind of White Divisions to stay and watch the games to see conversation. What about the coach during the game what the next level will be like if they are moving up who could be coaching on the bench instead of next year. watching for a potentially bad situation. Is this not a Put the date on your calendar and plan to attend waste of resources? the 23rd Annual All-Star Games on March 3. Why is all of this necessary? I believe it can be traced to one major thing; lack of respect. We have See These Stories Inside lost it at all levels and if we don’t do something to get it back, we will eventually end up as a society of • Honor Roll Students Pg 2 anarchy and mob rule. • Pistons/MBA Alliance Fundraiser Pg 3 If our kids are not taught to be respectful at home, • Another Games at U-of-D Pg 3 how can we expect them to be respectful to their • Bulletin Board Pg 4 teachers, to the Police or to those they compete • Fun Day Results Pg 5 against? People are not born with a disrespect gene in • MBA Sponsors Pg 6 them. It is a learned behavior. We as adults have a Blue and White Division Game Stories of (See “PREZ SEZ” - Page 4) January 21 are attached to the Website Version of this Hoop Scoop. 02-04-12 Hoop Scoop – Page 2

Honor Roll and All Academic Team

The MBA believes in the old fashioned way of The following instructions must be followed without doing things. We believe that we are all born with the exception: same inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That is where equality ends. We are not 1. You must email your information to Jim and Pansy all equal in ability to perform surgery, play an Bradley at: [email protected]. Only emails instrument, put a rocket on the moon or make the honor will be accepted. Please type “Honor Roll roll. We are not all equal in our ability to make a sports Students” in the subject line. If we get an email All-Star team, be accepted for college or speak multiple with no subject and we do not recognize the email languages. address we WILL NOT open it. No phone calls Just because we all do not possess the same talents please. or level of achievement does not mean that we should not recognize those who are achieving at a high level. I 2. This information must be in their hands no later have to explain this every year at this time, because we than February 20. are going to list our Honor Roll students and be selecting our All-Star teams in the next couple of 3. Your email must include the following weeks. information: We have been told in the past that we should not list a. Name of the student these kids and single out their achievements. Why? We b. School name and grade level have been told it is because for those who do not get c. Division in the MBA (Blue, White, Red) their names listed on the Honor Roll or make the All- d. MBA Team Name Star team that it can cause low self-esteem. I am not e. Specify if it is for the Honor Roll or the denying that someone can have a low self-esteem, but I All-Academic Team also believe that they do not have to accept that as a f. Grade point average way of life. The real world recognizes excellence. The MBA These instructions must be followed in order to also believes in recognizing excellence. Recognizing have your child in the Hoop Scoop on March 10 and the excellence should be for the purpose of congratulating MBA Yearbook. We will not be able to accept any those who achieve it. That is what we do. Nothing else. names after the February 20 deadline because of If your child has made the Honor Roll in their printing deadlines. It is your responsibility as a parent school during the first semester we want to recognize to get this information to Jim and Pansy. Please do not them. If your child has achieved a perfect 4.0 grade give this information to your coach and expect them to point average, or equivalent, we want to put them on the turn it in. You must do this directly. Even with these MBA All-Academic Team. Some schools do not use the clear instructions, we will have people call after traditional 4.0 system. For those who don’t, if the February 20 and ask for an exception. Please accept our student has worked at an A level in all of their classes apologies at this time and save the call. that is the same to us. It would be too difficult to verify this information Congratulations to those whose name will be appearing for every player so we will accept your word as an in the March 10 Hoop Scoop. honest person if your child has reached one of these levels. If your child made the Honor Roll or the MBA All-Academic Team, please read below how to report it.

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Piston/MBA Alliance Fundraiser

We had a great Fun Day last Saturday and the from the MBA Website. There is a link on the MBA Pistons crew had a lot to do with it. and his front page directly to the Pistons to order online. Go to Flight were awesome and Earl Curetin did a great job www.pistons/metro. with his speech to the kids. The Pistons also gave us We have a nice relationship with the some nice things to add to our prize table. They and they have helped us in many ways over the years. invested in us ahead of time and now it is our turn to We have never reciprocated to them. This is our chance help them realize a return on their investment. to do so. We have an obligation to sell as many tickets The nice thing about the Pistons return on as we can to show our appreciation to the Pistons for investment is they are willing to share a portion of it coming and making Fun Day a special time for the kids. with the MBA. We have the opportunity to purchase Please order tickets for yourself. Have your kids tell tickets to a Pistons game with the Milwaukee Bucks on their friends. Tell your co-workers about it and invite Friday, April 13. For every ticket that is purchased for them to come. Tell the people you go to church with or this game through the MBA, the Piston will give the the people in your mosque. My goal is for us to MBA $5. collectively sell 500 tickets for the Pistons. If we do Ticket prices are as follows: The Upper Bowl that it would net the MBA $2500 which we really need. tickets which normally sell for $30 are now only $20. Let’s have a great showing for this. It would be fun The Lower Bowl which is normally $45 is now only to see the kids wear their MBA uniforms and to see $35. This is a good price deduction plus a giveback to them in force for this game. the MBA. Thanks in advance for your support of this event. You received a flier last week at Fun Day with the information about how to order tickets. You can use that form and fax or mail in your order or you can do it

Another Game at U of D

Last month the University of Detroit gave us a great The jerseys come in sizes Youth XL and Adult XL. I deal to see the Titans play Butler University a final four only have 15 of the $10 tickets and someone has told team for the last two years. I was very surprised to see they want 10, so those are going fast. how good the Titans are. They beat Butler by 20 points. Kevin Wilkinson has the tickets for the game in the It was a great game and a great experience to go into gym today. If you are interested, please see Kevin and Calihan Hall, one of the old fashioned “barns” as they he can give your ticket to you today. This will be great used to call them. for the kids to experience Division I basketball for such We have another opportunity for the MBA kids to a low price. see another game at U-of-D. It is Sunday, February 12 I hope that more of you will take advantage of this at 1:00 p.m. against Greet Bay. We have two ticket opportunity and try to get to this game. You will enjoy options. The upper level tickets are $5. The lower level it. seating on the floor is $10 plus a Titans replica jersey.

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Bulletin Board:

1. Website has a new look. Take a look at the new look of our website. On the front page you can now get a fast look at the game scores, the standings and the the upcoming games for that week. We still feature the Hoop Scoop and the game articles, information about the league and upcoming events. We have direct links to the Detorit Pistons to purchase tickets for the April 13 game against the Bucks. We will be featuring some more things as the season goes on and into next year. Continue to visit the site for information and share it with your friends. You can still access MBA information through Facebook as well.

2. U of D/ Green Bay Game: Remember you can get your tickets today from Kevin for the U-of-D/Green Bay game on Sunday, February 12 at 1:00 p.m. Tickets are $5 for upper seats and $10 on the floor plus a Titans replica jersey. You have until February 9 to get your tickets from Kevin. If you miss him in the gym, call 313 247-5405 to pick them up at his house.

“PREZ SEZ” (Con’t from Page 1) the highest level to help his team win a contest. It responsibility to teach and coach our kids the right way should enhance it. Trash talking and disrespect has no to do things. Yes, I also believe that there are absolute place in the game. The ultimate result of this kind of right and wrong ways to do things. We have gotten lazy behavior from players, coaches or parents never leads to and allowed too many grey areas to define our actions anything good. or inactions. There is still a right way and a wrong way to play to I am involved at a high level with developing a win. It begins with respect for your opponent; respect national program that we hope will become the model for your coaches; respect for the team you represent, for rescuing youth sports from the downward spiral it is respect for the family you represent; respect for officials in now. It involves the players, parents, coaches and and respect for yourself. If you exhibit these things, officials. It takes all of these groups working together then the sportsmanship aspect will take care of itself, to make sure that games are played with the highest thus leading to honesty and pursuing victory with honor. level of respect and sportsmanship. In no way should respect and sportsmanship diminish a player’s ability to play hard and compete at

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PLAYERS SHOW SKILLS AT FUN DAY COMPETITION

The 23rd Annual Fun Day was held at United Christian gym with the Red, White and Blue Division players showing their skills on Saturday, January 28. All players competed in shooting skills in three areas -- Free Throws, Hot Shot, (where players could earn one to five points from various spots on the floor) and Lay-ups. Players received points for where they finished in each contest, which also went to their team scores. At the end of the day individual winners were announced in each contest. We had a Team Champion and an individual Grand Champion for their overall excellence in all the contests. The results are listed below.

BLUE DIVISION WHITE DIVISION RED DIVISION

Team Champion Team Champion Team Champion Hawks – 128 Points Blazers – 140 Points Rockets – 130 Points (Coach Ali Hamood) (Coach – Todd Clark) (Coach Riad Zahr)

Grand Champion Grand Champion Grand Champion Niemer Hamood – Hawks Luke Jaroszewicz – Lakers Ali Zahr – Rockets

Hot Shot Hot Shot Hot Shot st 1 – Niemer Hamood – Hawks Benjamin Clark – Blazers Ali Zahr – Rockets nd 2 – Noah Bruce – Bulls Luke Jaroszewicz – Lakers Aaron Mei - Celtics rd 3 – Cade Pichan – Magic Jalal Baydoun – Knicks Marouf Hamade – Rockets

Free Throw Free Throw Free Throw Cade Pichan – Magic Luke Jaroszewicz - Lakers Jamal Turfe – Mavericks Devin Flum – Hawks Youseph Saad – Knicks Lorenz Frazier – Wildcats Mya Hamood – Hawks Zachary Jawad – Knicks Tyler Bridges – Celtics

Layup Layup Layup Niemer Hamood – Hawks Youseph Saad – Knicks Shane Moran – Celtics Noah Bruce –Bulls Benjamin Clark – Blazers Spencer Gedert – Spurs Mark Konchal - Sixers Cade Gaiss – Blazers Ali Zahr - Rockets

Congratulations to all of the players for a great showing in all of the contests.

Winners of the Adult Free Throw Contest were: Bill Hodi – Four Tiger Tickets with Limo service to the game. Sami Arabi – A Weekend Getaway at the Marriott Eagle Crest Hotel and Golf Resort in Ypsilanti.

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WHITE AND BLUE DIVISION GAMES OF SATURDAY, JAN. 21, 2012 (See Standings, Results and Top Scorers on Page 5)

Stories by Jim Bradley – MBA Sports Writer

BLAZERS CRUISE PAST SPARTANS 47-29 TO TAKE FIRST PLACE

BLAZERS 12-30-35-47 Cooper Leisenring sank five baskets and 5-of-10 SPARTANS 8-13-17-29 free throws for 15 points to lead the winners, the third straight game the 5-foot-3 fifth-grader has scored in With the Blazers hitting on all cylinders – both double-figures. His strong rebounding has also been a offensively and defensively – Coach Todd Clark’s red- vital factor in the club’s winning streak. He was hot club has won four games in a row and now rests all especially effective in the two middle quarters when he alone in first place in the White Division. scored 11 of his total. After close, tightly-fought wins over the Knicks (43- Matthew Lynch has been more consistent 40) and the Lakers (49-47) the Blazers romped to their offensively in the past four games with 36 points in that fourth consecutive victory Saturday at United Christian span and carries a 7.9 average, eighth-highest in the Center (47-29 over the 0-8 Spartans) to raise their White Division. Ryan Jenkins pumped in two last league-leading record to 6-2. That leaves them one quarter field goals for four points, Yousef Saab, Mehdi game in front of the 5-3 Knicks and Lakers with four Unis and Cade Gaiss each had one basket for two games to go in the regular season. Blazer points. In contrast with their nip-and- After Fun Day this Saturday, January 28, the tuck struggles with the Knicks and Blazers face the Lakers twice and the Knicks once in Lakers, the Blazers broke from a the four games left on the regular season schedule. 12-8 first-period lead over the Those three games will go a long way in determining Spartans to run to an 18-5 second- the White Division Regular Season Champ. period advantage and a 30-13 While the Blazers are pleased with their winning halftime lead. Both defenses ruled ways, Coach Anthony Ramos and his 0-8 Spartans are supreme in the third quarter as the looking for their first win of the season. Hussein Blazers barely squeaked out a slim Ahmed led the Spartans with six baskets for 12 points, 5-4 margin before both teams six in each half. Ahmed has a 7.4 average. battled to a 12-12 deadlock over the last eight minutes. Ali Zahr had one hoop in the opening quarter and Well-balanced scoring has been the trademark of the three in the fourth for eight points. Alex Urbano- Blazers in their recent surge to the top of the White Spencer, who had an excellent 21-point scoring effort Division standings and it was no different Saturday two games ago, has not been able to match that in the when all seven players put points on the board. Terance last two games. He scored four points the previous Doyle was absent but all seven in the line-up scored. game and had two field goals and 1-of-2 freebies for Point-guard Benjamin Clark continued his fine five markers in this game. scoring with seven field goals for 14 points, 12 before Luke Levangie scored four points for the second intermission when the Blazers took their commanding game in a row for the Spartans. Aric Ramos, Deanna 30-13 lead. Clark not only directs the team’s offense Zahr and Sami Agemy hustled all over on defense but but has the fourth-highest average in the league with didn’t score and William Sweetman didn’t play because 12.5 points per game. of an injury. White and Blue Division Games – January 21, 2012 – Page 2

KNICKS SHRED LAKERS’ DEFENSE, STAY TIED FOR SECOND IN 56-49 WIN

KNICKS 10-23-44-56 The Lakers closed the gap a little bit in the final frame LAKERS 8-17-31-49 when they outscored the Knicks 18-12 for the final score of 56-49. Of the Knicks’ 12 points in the final period, Baydoun There’s something the Knicks’ Youseph Saad likes about had five, Saad cashed in all four free throws and Jawad had a the Lakers’ defensive setup. basket and freebie to end with a trio of baskets and 2-of-6 The 4-foot-11 sixth-grader exploded for 36 points from the line for his eight points. Saturday at United Christian Center as the Knicks built a 13- For the game, Saad wound up with 12 field goals and 12- point lead after three buzzers and ran away with a 56-49 of-18 free throws for his game-high 36 markers. Strong victory. It was the second time he has surpassed the 30-point defensive performances by Hussein Nehmeh, Lielle Saad, plateau against the Lakers this season and he is averaging 30 Madalyn Mosallam, Nathaniel Williams and points against the Lakers in winning two of the three Abdou Atoui helped keep the Knicks in contests. front the entire game. Saad scored 21 points on November 19 as the Knicks Laker Coach Dave Jaroszewicz gave full took the measure of the Lakers, 49-42, in Saad’s first game credit to Saad and Baydoun for carrying the of the season, then he drilled in 33 markers in a 61-58 loss to play to his team and hitting 20-of-38 free Coach Dave Jaroszewicz’s team and this latest outburst throws to the Lakers 7-of-13. handed Coach Ibrahim (Juice) Baydoun’s Knicks a fairly “Our hats are off to Youseph Saad and easy victory. Jalal Baydoun,” Jaroszewicz said. “They The victory for the Knicks improved their record to 5-3 are special players, took the ball to the hoop and back into a White Division second-place tie with the with authority and caused us to foul them Lakers. The 6-2 Blazers remained all alone in first place quite often. We don’t expect Luke (Jarsozewicz) to shoot all with an easy 47-29 win over the 0-8 Spartans. A Lakers’ the time and are trying to work other players into our offense victory over the Knicks last Saturday would have dropped but it takes time.” the Knicks to a 4-4 record, two full games behind the Blazers Jaroszewicz pointed out that one of his players, Ray and Lakers who would have had 6-2 slates. But this Saad-led Barron, broke his collarbone while snow boarding recently Knicks victory makes it still a horse race – with the Blazers and will be out for the season. “It was obvious he was leading the White Division with their 6-2 record and the missed on defense and we didn’t have a very good shooting Knicks and Lakers tied for second with 5-3 marks with four night. But I’m very high on our players – they have a lot of games left in the regular season. love for each other and are well-mannered and as respectful The three top clubs in the white Division – the Blazers, as any group I’ve ever coached. We battled back after we Knicks and Lakers – are very evenly matched in talent so the got behind but once again foul trouble caught up to us.” race to the Regular Season Championship and the Playoff Luke Jaroszewicz, the White Division’s leading scorer Title should be highly contested between the three teams. with a 26.1 average, ended up with 24 points on 10 baskets This game between the Knicks and Lakers was close for and 4-of-5 free throws. Fifteen of his total came in the one half with the Knicks squeezing out leads of 10-8 and 23- second half. Shawn Srivastava had a good all-around game, 17 after each of the first two buzzers. Saad (36 points), Jalal scoring his season average of eight points on four baskets Baydoun (12) and Zach Jawad (eight) again scored all of the and played aggressive defense. Knicks’ points. Saad had 13 points before intermission and Joseph McRae had his usual hustling defensive play and Baydoun and Jawad each scored five. drilled three field goals and 1-of-5 from the line for seven Saad really got hot in the third stanza, scoring 19 of his markers. Tristan Aleong, who was given more opportunity 36 points in that period on eight baskets and 3-of- 6 free to shoot in this game, sank a pair of baskets and 2-of-2 free throws to thrust the Knicks into a commanding 44-31 lead throws for six points and Kassem Adoure nailed a pair of after three horns. Baydoun had the Knicks’ other two third- buckets for four Laker points. period points on free throws and finished with 12 points on Hunter Vandem Bosch always hustles on defense and three field goals and 6-of-14 free throws. played a strong game, as did Robert Rinke.

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HAWKS FIGHT OFF SIXERS’ FIRST-HALF SCARE TO STAY UNBEATEN, 40-33

HAWKS 12-20-30-40 Leading 30-23 after three buzzers, the Hawks SIXERS 2-19-23-33 battled the Sixers to a 10-10 standoff in the last quarter to emerge with the 40-33 decision. Hamood and Arabi The first-place undefeated Hawks had a good 12-2 each had a pair of field goals for four points apiece in first period, stumbled when they were outscored 17-8 in the final frame and Saad had a field goal for the Hawks. the second stanza but righted the ship with a solid 12-4 Konchal scored six for the Sixers and Serazio had four. third period and 10-10 fourth quarter standoff to beat The final result left the Hawks with their the 4-4 Sixers, 40-33, and run their record to 8-0. unblemished 8-0 record atop the Blue Division and the Niemer Hamood again led the Blue Division- Sixers dropped to 4-4, four games behind the league- leading Hawks with a superb 20-point effort and he got leaders in second place. With only four games left in good support from Samih Arabi (10 points), Mahmoud the regular season, the Hawks clinched no less than a tie Saad (6) and Devin Flum (4) Although they didn’t for the Regular Season Blue Division Championship. score, Mya Hamood, Corryn Rathwell, Jamal Mosallam In the other Blue Division game Saturday at United and Yusef Turfe played their usual solid defense to help Christian Center, the third-place Bulls raised their Coach Ali Hamood’s Hawks remain undefeated. record to 3-5 with a close 27-26 win over the 1-7 Coach Mark Sweetman’s Sixers got all their scoring Magic. from two players – Mark Konchal with 21 points and Niemer Hamood scored in double-figures for the Francis (Trey) Serazio with 12. They also got excellent eighth consecutive game, his 10 field goals for 20 points defensive efforts from Colleen Sweetman, Brandon raising his average to 19.1 – good for third-highest in Hodi, Jillian Sweetman, Aaron Szostek and Ramez the Blue Division. Samih Arabi had five baskets for 10 Saad. Carlito Hill was absent. points, Mahmoud Saad netted three hoops for six The game had a definite ebb and flow that saw the markers and Devin Flum dropped in two first period Hawks get good balanced scoring from four players to baskets for two points. take a 12-2 lead after eight minutes of action. Niemer For the Sixers, Mark Konchal also scored in double- Hamood and Devin Flum each had four points and figures for the eighth consecutive time. His game-high Mahmoud Saad and Samih Arabi added two apiece 21 points came on six field goals and 9-of-15 from the while the tenacious Hawk defense held the Sixers to a line and raised his league-leading average to 19.9. pair of Mark Konchal free throws. Serazio, the only other Sixer to enter the scorebook, The pendulum swung strongly in the Sixers’ favor scored in double-figures for the first time this season in the second period when they raced to a 17-8 with 12 points on five baskets and 2-of-2 freebies, advantage to pull within 20-19 at intermission. Mark raising his average to 6.4, sixth-highest in the Blue Konchal scored 11 of his game-high 21 points in the Division. second stanza and Serazio tallied six of his 12 markers in that span. Hamood retaliated with all eight of the Hawks’ points in the second period. But the Hawks took charge again in the third quarter when they ran to a 10-4 margin, getting four points each from Hamood and Arabi and two from Mahmoud Saad. The Sixers had trouble with the Hawks’ defense in the third quarter when they could only get four points – two on Serazio’s field goal and two on Konchal’s pair of free throws.

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BACON “SIZZLES” WITH 25 POINTS AS BULLS EDGE MAGIC, 27-26

BULLS 9--9-15-27 That’s when Bacon took charge in the final eight MAGIC 6-18-20-26 minutes – drilling in five baskets and 2-of-4 free throws for all 12 Bulls points. It was just enough to win the Brandon Bacon Jr. had his highest-scoring game of game, 27-26, as Cade Pichan posted two baskets and the year with 25 points as the Bulls snapped a two-game both free throws in the period for all six “Magic losing streak and defeated the Magic, 27-26, to raise Markers.” Pichan, whose 15.8 average is the fourth- their record to 3-5 and remain all alone in third place in highest in the Blue Division, finished with five field the Blue Division. goals and 2-of-2 at the line for his dozen markers, six in Noah Bruce was the only other Bulls player to score each half. on a first period field goal. Bacon, a 4-foot-6 fourth- Jack Torrance, had three baskets and 2-of-2 from the grader, tallied seven points in the first period, none in charity stripe for all eight of his points in the first half. the second, six in the third and 12 in the final frame in The 4-foot-7 fourth-grader raised his average to 7.3, single-handedly carrying his club to victory. good for fifth best in the Blue Division and it kept the Coach Jim Moran got aggressive defensive play Magic squad in the game until the final buzzer. from the other Bulls players – Lillian Grimes, Erin With Julia Martin absent, the Magic team had five Moran, Hassan Beydoun, Haley Manno, Adam Srour of its seven players enter the scorebook. In addition to and Joshua Miller – to win for the third time in eight Pichan’s 12 and Torrance’s eight points, Grace games. Bacon scored seven points on three baskets and Obermiller, Ali Hussein and Emma Obermiller each had 1-of-4 free throws in the first period and Bruce added a one basket for two points. Joshua Bayne and Aaron field goal in the Bulls’ 9-6 opening frame margin. Seta, a pair of third-graders, didn’t score but played But then Coach Tony Iaquinta’s 1-7 Magic club really good in the defensive scheme of the Magic team. threw up a strong defensive effort in the second stanza, Bacon’s 25-point effort was his highest of the shutting out the Bulls and claiming what looked like a season and he’s scored in double-figures in all seven strong 18-9 halftime lead. A low-scoring third-period games he’s played. His 19.6 average is second-highest had both clubs playing strong defense as the Bulls in the Blue Division and he’s also an excellent edged to within 20-15 after three buzzers with a 9-6 defensive player. advantage. Bacon, with 4-of-6 free throws and a basket, scored all six points for the Bulls and Grace Obermiller dropped in a field goal for the Magic’s two markers in the third stanza.

It’s nice to be important – but it’s more important to be nice.

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WHITE AND BLUE DIVISION STANDINGS, RESULTS & TOP SCORERS WEEK OF JANUARY 21, 2012

WHITE DIVISION STANDINGS BLUE DIVISION STANDINGS Team Won Lost PF PA Team Won Lost PF PA

Blazers 6 2 360 281 Hawks 8 0 281 203 Knicks 5 3 379 353 Sixers 4 4 243 235 Lakers 5 3 359 317 Bulls 3 5 209 229 Spartans 0 8 212 369 Magic 1 7 207 269

Games of Saturday, January 21, 2012 Games of Saturday, January 21, 2012

Knicks 56 Lakers 49 Hawks 40 Sixers 33 Blazers 47 Spartans 29 Bulls 27 Magic 26

Top Scorers of January 21, 2012 Top Scorers of January 21, 2012

Youseph Saad – Knicks 36 Brandon Bacon Jr. – Bulls 25 Luke Jaroszewicz – Lakers 24 Mark Konchal – Sixers 21 Cooper Leisenring – Blazers 15 Niemer Hamood – Hawks 20 Benjamin Clark – Blazers 14 Cade Pichan – Magic 12 Hussein Ahmed – Spartans 12 Francis (Trey) Serazio – Sixers 12 Jalal Baydoun – Knicks 12 Samih Arabi – Hawks 10