Youth Basketball - 2012 Tulip Tournament

The Annual Skagit County youth basketball Tulip Tournament went on this year as usual, but even bigger than before. Between the boys and girls there were a total of 128 team covering 4 grade levels from as far away as Tacoma. Because of the high number of teams, the tournament covered 3 days and was played at 13 different venues from Sedro Woolley to Anacortes.

This year, Oak Harbor entered only a single girls team, made up of players from 5th through 8th grade. After discussion with the tournament director, the decision was made to place the team in the 7th grade division.

The girls won their opening game Friday evening at La Conner Middle School, then took on Orcas at Fidalgo Elementary in Anacortes. The Catz had a 19-12 halftime lead, but came out cold on offense to start the 2nd half, but cranked up the heat late in the game to win 37-22 to head to a quarterfinal game at Burlington-Edison HS.

At BEHS, the Catz took on the Blaine Fury, and after playing catchup early in the game, were able to take a 15-10 lead at halftime. After the half the OH girls pulled away to win 32-25.

In the semi-final game on Sunday, the Catz lost, then lost the game for 3rd, and wound up finishing in 6th place out of 15 teams.

Photos from both of Saturday's games are posted HERE.

Click HERE for video highlights of the Orcas game.

Blaine video clips are posted HERE.

On the boys side, Oak Harbor entered 6 teams, two each at the 6th and 8th grade level and one each at the 5th and 7th grade level.

None of the teams won their Friday games.

The 5th grade level was divided into Gold and Silver divisions, with OH in the Gold. They finished in 8th place out of 10 teams in their division.

The 6th grade Purple team finished tied for 6th place and the Gold team tied for 7th out of 19 teams.

The 7th grade team was tied for 13th out of 25 teams entered.

The 8th grade Gold team finished in 7th place and the Purple team in 11th place out of 12 teams.





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