SPOKANE – Aeroelite Six, a basketball team made up of players from Lakewood High School, won the elite boys varsity division at last month’s Hoopfest 2005 tournament in Spokane.
Aeroelite Six posted a 5-0 record in the three-on-three event, including a 20-13 victory over Pine State Athletics in the championship game. The Aeroelite Six roster included Anthony Wiederkehr, Craig Cheatle, Bryan Connor and Slava Borisov.
“We got better every game we played,” Wiederkehr told the Spokesman-Review newspaper. “I really was shocked we won it.”
En route to the title game Aeroelite Six defeated Hancock, the Helena Bengals, Team Dream and Rezervations First.
None of the Aeroelite Six players stands taller than 6-foot, which may have been an advantage.
“I think teams underestimated us because of our size,” Connor told the Spokesman-Review.
In the same tournament, Men in Orange, a team of 9-year-olds from Lynnwood, finished second in its bracket. The team of Evan Wiederspohn, Devante Downs and Jack Pearce won its first three games before losing to South Sound B-Ball 20-12.
Hoopfest 2005 drew just over 24,000 players, the Spokesman-Review reported, making it the largest three-on-three basketball tournament in the world.
Softball
Blues score Classic win: The Lynnwood Blues 18-U girls fastpitch softball team won its division at the Tacoma Mid-Summer Classic held June 25-26 at the Sprinker Recreation Complex in Tacoma.
The Blues posted a 4-2 record, including a 12-3 victory over High Voltage in the championship game.
Leah McCormack led the way in the title game with two home runs and three runs batted in. Alyson Yelenich was the winning pitcher.
Rowing
McClain earns scholarship: The NCAA announced last week that Caitlin McClain of Everett has been awarded a post-graduate scholarship.
McClain was a four-year varsity rower at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and a two-year team captain. She graduated in May with degrees in urban studies and political science. She plans to attend law school.
The NCAA scholarship is the latest in a series of honors McClain earned this season. She also was a first-team All-West Coast Conference selection, a first-team Western Intercollegiate Rowing Association pick and a first-team member of the CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII squad.
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