Clarksville hosted over 70 of the nation's finest 15U AAU programs for the AAU Nationals this last week including the Atlanta Celtics, Indiana Elite, All Ohio Purple, All Ohio Red, SYF Players, Dayton Metro, Cincinnati Hurricanes, and many others.All Ohio Purple have been dominating their age group in Ohio for years and have had huge contributions from Cincinnati's 6'8 Adolphus Washington, Thomas Kreyenhagen, and Orlando Berry Jr. Washington is considered one of the top players in Ohio in the 2012 class and just transfered from Roger Bacon to Taft High school. The Purple defeated Indiana Elite/Team Indiana in yesterday's semi-final 50-45 and Washington led the Purple with 20 while Indianapolis North Central's Devontes Smith-Rivera added 20 also. Today Indiana Elite faces the Drew Gooden Soldiers in one semi-final while Ohio Purple plays for the title. Photo is from Spirit of Sports Website.
The Leaf Herald has provided excellent coverage of the event. http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20090716/SPORTS/907160341 Here are some results from teams of interest during tournament play.
* All Ohio Purple 58 - Ga Stars Gray 51 Adolphus Washington with 25 pts
* Louisiana Bayou Flames 51 - All Ohio White 46 Jakyl Cornley, Adam McCall 13 pts for AOW
* Illinois Wolverines Black 61 - Minnesota Southside 58 Lajavius Johnson with 20 for the Wolves
* SYF Players 57 - Pg Bulls 53 Glenn Robinson Jr with 13 for SYF
* Indiana Elite/Team Indiana 49 - Southeast Elite 48 Devontes Smith-Rivera with 17
* Colorado Hawks 66 - Illinois Wolverines Black 53 Armani Stephens with 17 for the Wolverines
* Granger Hurricanes 57 - Cincinnati Royals 53 (2 OT) Jake Cummings with 15 for the Royals
* Dayton Metro 75 - Stars Basketball 69 Kendrick Williams 18 and Brad Hall with 17 for the Metro
* SYF Players 70 - Louisiana Magic 66 Solomon King-White with 21 for SYF
* Dayton Metro 80 - Titans 75 Matthew Cash and Taylor Decker with 14 for Metro
I was in Clarksville this past week and got to see a lot of games.
ReplyDeleteWashington was a beast the whole tournament. He had great games against Georgia Gray Stars and Indy Elite. Indy Elite had the two 7 footers to run at him but he was so strong and tenacious on the glass it didn't matter what size they were.
All Ohio Purple played the best team ball by far follwed closely by Team Stat from what I saw. So it was appropriate that they played in the finals.
Smith-Rivera had a solid tournament. He has some serious range and nice all round game.
Decker from Metro and Cummings from the Royals had nice tournaments as well. Cummings had a great game in the double OT loss. He made two pressure free throws off a technical with about 3 seconds left to force the OT. Decker was very consistent.
Thanks for the first hand report, I got an email asking about Michigan players in that tournament and another request for how SYF 15U individual players are looking.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to try to get up to Chicago area in a couple of weeks to see some of those SYF guys hopefully but I've only seen thier 16 and 17U squads this year.