Iowa State AAU Tournament

#3 posting 3.30.2008
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IOWA STATE AAU TOURNAMENT
Today Coach Teas & I traveled down I35 to Des Moines Hoover for the first big event on the spring AAU calendar--The Iowa State AAU Tournament. IBCA Select Red won the Junior eligible division while the Rails (Des Moines Lincoln) won division 2.

We left before the crack of dawn and motored 4 hours south to DMH. We made it in time for the start of the second quarterfinal game in the D1 bracket. We saw five games, seven if you count the pair of boys games (not charted by the way).

Here are the trends---
1. Roster shifts. There is plenty of musical chairs going on with who is wearing what uniform this year compared to last. I will give the run down when the game reports are due, but there has been team hopping.
2. D1 players. There were two players that have already made commitments playing. Both were on IBCA Select Red--Jamie Printy to Iowa, and Jessica McDowell to Northern Iowa
3. Injuries. We were sad to find that Jade Rogers, player of the year in the Mississippi Valley Conference was injured Saturday and on crutches. She will be tested for an ACL during the upcoming week. Rogers plays with All Iowa Attack 17s this season.
4. Playing up: younger teams were playing, sometimes two years up: Team Iowa was 9th and 10th graders, Iowa Select Blue 8th & 9th graders.
5. Lower Numbers: They needed those teams as the D1 tournament only had 10 teams this year. Last year there were 19 teams. Even if you add in the D2 teams, that is three less this year.
6. Fans. There are folks that read the blog and coach Teas & I had a good time meeting and greeting some readers.

I will give out full reports with numbers, story and photos during the week.
Monday:
Rails vs Central Decatur D2 semis
Rails vs IBCA Select Blue D2 Championship
Tuesday:
All Iowa Attack 17s vs Iowa Lightning Scarlet D1 quarters
IBCA Select Red vs All Iowa Attack 17s D1 semis
Wednesday:
IBCA Select Red vs Team Iowa D1 championship
Friday:
The week that was #1 Spring 08

Here are the results
DIVISION 2
Pool A
Rails 52, Denver 47
Rails 62, IA Lightning White 35
Denver 49, IA Lightning White 33
Pool B
Iowa Select Blue 42, Hoover 40
Central Decatur 51, Hoover 42
Iowa Select Blue 55, Central Decatur 50
Bracket Play
Quarterfinals
Hoover 53, Denver 42
Central Decatur 41, IA Lightning White 31
Semifinals
Iowa Select Blue 51, Hoover 37
Rails 77, Central Decatur 51
3rd Place
Hoover over Central Decatur
Championship
Rails 70, Iowa Select Blue 58

DIVISION 1
Pool A
Iowa Lightning Black 56, Iowa Select White 42
All Iowa Attack 17 55, Iowa Select White 43
All Iowa Attack 17 66, Iowa Lightning Black 59
Pool B
All Iowa Attack 9th 69, Iowa Lightning Silver 34
Iowa Elite 74, Iowa Lightning Silver 55
All Iowa Attack 9th 57, Iowa Elite 42
Pool C
Iowa Select Red 79, Iowa Lightning Scarlet 34
Team Iowa 60, All Iowa Attack 16 41
All Iowa Attack 16 64, Iowa Lightning Scarlet 56
Iowa Select Red 63, Team Iowa 49
Bracket play
play in
All Iowa Attack 16 55, Iowa Select White 40
Iowa Lightning Scarlet 66, Iowa Lightning Silver 62
Quarterfinals
Team Iowa 69, Iowa Lightning Black 65
All Iowa Attack 9th 49, All Iowa Attack 16 33
All Iowa Attack 17 93, Iowa Lightning Scarlet 45
Iowa Select Red 65, Iowa Elite 30
Semifinals
Team Iowa 47, All Iowa Attack 9th 46
Iowa Select Red 75, All Iowa Attack 17 39
3rd place
All Iowa Attack 17 over All Iowa Attack 9th
Championship
Iowa Select Red 61, Team Iowa 44

ALL TOURNAMENT TEAMS
Selected by tournament officials
D2
Sara Wagner, Rails
Taylor Smith, Central Decatur
Ericka Hussman, Hoover
Ashley Zobel, IBCA Select Blue
Kelsey Reese, Rails MVP

D1
Ally Jensen, All Iowa Attack 17
Markisha Wright, All Iowa Attack 9th
Jaime Printy, IBCA Select Red
Lindsey Smith, Team Iowa
Trisha Nesbit, IBCA Select Red

Next up: Tomorrow morning