Keaton - Up with the 9th Graders

During Keaton's 8th grade year, he not only played basketball with the Copper Hills Prep league, but also with the West Hills school team. The official team is all 9th graders, but then Coach Heagren taps a few younger players to come practice with the team, and augment it for the Thursday night league (when the boys split into two teams to allow for more playing time). 

There were many practices after school, and early on Friday mornings. Games were Thursday nights ... the same night as my Zumba class. I didn't make it to that many games, especially after Keaton's buddy Tyler joined the team and his parents were always willing to give Keaton a ride. So ... not much video footage. You can see a small clip (HERE) ... and Keaton did score as I had my camera out!

Keaton went to watch almost all the Saturday games the 9th graders played in the official district league. Always there, cheering them on (he didn't even come to Callahan's games as often when Cal was on the team last year!) They were able to win the tournament, and the BIG trophy! Even though Keaton didn't play in the Saturday games, he still got a t-shirt with the rest of the team.

Good luck to these guys as they try out for the sophomore team next year. I know Keaton sure had a good time getting to know them and having the opportunity to play along side them this year. 

Callahan Winter 2013-2014

Callahan is now playing for the West Hills 9th grade team. They are playing in the Salt Lake County League  on Thursday nights, and on Saturdays in the school league. I'll try to update here as I finish video highlights ...

Salt Lake County League

• Game 1* (Dec 5, 2013) West Hills vs Sunset Ridge (Win) 71-21
• Game 2 (Dec 12, 2013) West Hills vs 9th Miners (Win) 43-39
• Game 3* (Dec 19, 2013) West Hills vs A-Train Magic (Win) 58-31
• Game 4* (January 2, 2014) West Hills vs Sunset Ridge (Win) 54-29
• Game 5 (January 9. 2014) West Hills vs Brighton (Win) 53-33
• Game 6* (January 16, 2014) West Hills vs Blues Clues (Win) 57-31
• Game 7 (January 23, 2014) West Hills vs Riverton (Loss) 32-37
• Game 8 (January 30, 2014) West Hills vs Stansbury (Win) 50-18
• Game 9 (February 20, 2014) West Hills vs 9th Minors (Loss) 42-46
• Playoff 1 (February 27, 2014) West Hills vs Stansbury (Win) 81-8
• Playoff 2 (March 6, 2014) West Hills vs Brighton (Win) 37-33
• Championship (March 6, 2014) West Hills vs Bingham (Loss) 56-41

Jordan District League

• Game 1* (Dec 14, 2013) West Hills vs Ft. Herriman (Win) 51-35
• Game 2* (Dec 14, 2013) West Hills vs Joel P Jensen (Win) 49-26
• Game 3* (Dec 21, 2013) West Hills vs West Jordan (Win) 50-37
• Game 4 (Dec 21, 2013) West Hills vs Oquirrh Hills (Win) 35-24
• Game 5* (Jan 11, 2014) West Hills vs Elkridge (Win) 56-28
• Game 6* (Jan 18, 2014) West Hills vs South Hills (Win) 48-32
• Game 7 (Jan 25, 2014) West Hills vs South Jordan (Loss) 43-46
• Game 8 (Feb 1, 2014) West Hills vs Copper Mountain (Win) 42-12
• Game 9* (Feb 8, 2014) West Hills vs Sunset (Win) 62-34
• Playoff 1 (February 22, 2014) West Hills vs Fort Herriman (Win) 62-31
• Playoff 2 (March 1, 2014) West Hills vs Copper Mountain (Win) 46-41
• Championship (March 1, 2014) West Hills vs South Jordan (Loss) 30-40

Catching Up with Callahan

Well ... Callahan's basketball season was MUCH different than we'd expected with the TWO breaks. It wasn't until April that he got the go ahead to play again. His team had played in the AAU State Tournament, the AAU Spring Fling and in the Dimple Dell Spring league. Callahan did get in a couple of games at the very end of the Dimple Dell season. 

We signed Callahan up for the University of Utah Basketball Tournament June 13-15. They played several games and just had a ton of fun hanging out together all day. Then there was the CHHS camp (June 17-20) and he really enjoyed that too. A bunch of the boys went to a tournament in St. George at the end of June, but Callahan had youth conference that same time and had already committed to that.

Callahan is planning on buying a summer pass to the local rec center and spending many days there during the summer getting back into the game!