Catching Up With Keaton

After Winter Season, the team (part of it anyway) entered the State AAU tournament. Missing some players and facing some harder teams, they were eliminated early. The boys (with our players returning, plus a couple others) then played in the Spring Season at Dimple Dell. They only lost one game during the regular season, and ended up taking first place!

New T-shirts for the Champs!

Colton - Junior Jazz

Colton loved his Junior Jazz season. His buddies Bradley and Randon were on the team (Randon's dad was the coach). They got trounced many a game, but he always had fun. The final game was a run-away win for our team, and a great game for Colton. I'm glad I had my video camera there!

Colton loves watching his video over and over!

YouTube Favorites

I thought I'd keep a collection of favorite YouTube basketball videos (non-Blackham ones)

Kid Snippets "Basketball Class" - I have sweaty!
Two Year Old Trick Shots - Very Cute!

Ooops He Did It Again

... I can NOT believe it! He did it again. A broken foot. A Jones Fracture! It's his left foot this time, and it was during a basketball game this time. So much for the rest of Winter and the Spring season :(

ChurchBall 2013

Time for CHURCH ball! The Jordan Oaks 1st ward does seem to have a lot of basketball playing boys, with the Blackhams providing three. We are the only ward that was able to actually field both a priests team and a teachers/deacons team. All the other wards are combined with ALL the young men, and still often multiple wards combined as well. So our older group, being ALL priests, does dominate. Our younger group has it tough, as they don't have any older boys, yet do have to play against priests on other teams. 

Landon's Videos

Game 1 January 4, 2013

Game 3 January 17, 2013

Callahan and Keaton

Game 1 January 4, 2013

Game 2 January 17, 2013
Game 3 January 19, 2013

Winter Basketball Callahan

Callahan's first points back after the break ... for THREE

Callahan's team is playing in two leagues. The Salt Lake Superleague and the Utah County Bantam League ... with Keaton's games conflicting on Wednesday nights, and the Utah County games being ... in Utah County, I haven't been able to make it to many, so there aren't a lot of videos yet. Callahan isn't quite getting the playing time (or the plays) that he wants, it's a bit of a slow recovery (he had some new pain in his foot as he hit the floor again). The team has had their share of wins, and their losses and still been quite close,  (with the exception of the Lehi game). The losses aren't quite as fun to make highlights of, but they do still have some good shots!

Superleague

Copper Hills 8A vs Olympus Titans (Win 39-38) 

Bantam

CopperHills 8A vs Lehi (Loss 28-58)
CopperHills 8A vs Orem (Loss 35-37)
CopperHills 8A vs SalemHills (Loss 33-38)

Winter Basketball Keaton

Fall ends, and the Winter season starts! The boys are playing in the Salt Lake Superleage, in the 6th grade upper division on Wednesday nights. On Saturdays, they are playing in the AAU High School Prep League.

AAU (Click on Game# for video links)  ** 2nd place in the league
Game 1 Copper Hills 6A vs Olympus (Win 42-36)
Game 2 Copper Hills 6A vs Richfield (Win 39-8)
Game 3 CopperHills 6A vs Bountiful (Win 39-18)
Game 4 CopperHills 6A vs Bountiful Red (Win 43-32)
Game 5 Copper Hills 6A vs Taylorsville (Win 50-29)
Game 6 Copper Hills 6A vs Bingham (Loss 22-49)
Game 7 Copper Hills 6A vs Juan Diego (Win 58-30)

Game 8 Copper Hills 6A vs Bountiful Red (Win 39-33)
Game 9 Copper Hills 6A vs Bingham (Loss 30-45)



SuperLeague  ** 2nd in the league
( I wasn't able to make it to all these games ... highlights on 1, 3, 8, 10)
Game 1 CH6A vs Eagles (Win 46-2) *
Game 2 CH6A vs Olympus (Loss 27-43)
Game 3 CH6A vs AlphaDogs (Win 39-26) *
Game 4 CH6A vs Eagles (Win 52-18)
Game 5 CH6A vs Pump N Run (Loss 51-21)
Game 6 CH6A vs Stealth (Loss 36-28)
Game 7 CH6A vs Pump N Run (Loss 61-30)
Game 8 CH6A vs Lehi (Win 33-30) *
Game 9 CH6A vs Alpha Dogs (Win 32-28)
Game 10 CH6A vs Stealth (Win 36-34)

Playoffs
Game 1 CH6A vs Eagles (Win 46-18)
Game 2 CH6A vs Olympus (Win 31-19)\
Game 3 CH6A vs Pump N Run (Loss 75-40)

A Break in Basketball

Well, as active as Callahan is, it was probably inevitable that we'd have to deal with injury. The actual break was due to a trampoline, but it created quite a break in Callahan's basketball. As the Summer season ended, there were FIVE WHOLE WEEKS between that end, and the start of Fall. This was the longest Callahan had gone without a game in years!  Then, just a week or so before the first Fall game, Callahan broke his foot. It was the bottom of the foot, just under the pinky toe. The doctor said it could be considered a Jones Fracture, which unfortunately is a very slow healing break. And sure enough, it was SLOW. Callahan was in a walking boot for 10 weeks, and then still had to refrain from any running/jumping for another 4-5 weeks. So the break in September, put him out for the rest of 2012. We finally got the go ahead to return (slowly), so he's getting back into it (about halfway through the Winter season).

Fall Superleagues with Keaton

It's been a great Fall season for Keaton, shifting from recreational ball to competitive play. I think he's the only one on the team who hasn't played competitively before. He's doing great and I'm very proud of him! The team is playing in two different leagues. The Salt Lake County Superleague (which plays on Wednesday nights) and the Dimple Dell Superleague (which plays on Saturdays). With Callahan out of commission, I've been able to attend all of Keaton's games and make muvees. Just move the mouse over the team names to find the link to the video highlights *Ü*

Salt Lake County Superleague (see schedule and standings HERE)  5th/6th Grade Division

• Game 1: CH6A vs Red Hawks (Win) 40-23
• Game 2: CH6A vs The Show (Win) 47-12
• Game 3: CH6A vs CH6B (Win) 47-22
• Game 4: CH6A vs A Train Magic (Win) 33-20
• Game 5: (Win by forfeit)
• Game 6: (Win by forfeit)
• Game 7: CH6A vs Ballerz (Loss) 36-48

Dimple Dell Superleague (see schedule and standings HERE) 6th/7th (lower) Division

• Game 1: CH6A vs Pump N Run (Loss) 42-49
• Game 2: CH6A vs Wolf Pack (Win) 52-18
• Game 3: CH6A vs Next Level (Win) 55-20
• Game 4: CH6a vs Tigers (Win) 43-30 
• Game 5: CH6A vs Fury (Win) 43-7

Copper Hills High School Prep League

So Copper Hills High School had tryouts for their prep league ... congrats to both Callahan and Keaton for making the top team in both of their grade groups (8th and 6th respectively). Callahan has played with everyone on his team before, but this will be his first time with Coach Heagren, who is the 9th grade coach at West Hills Middle School as well.  Keaton is pretty much on a completely new team (one former teammate, and he's played against most of these kids before), and is excited to learn and play.

New jerseys ... new leagues ... but it's still cheaper than most other sports out there!

Gene Fullmer Summer Season - Callahan

Summer season, Gene Fullmer combined with Taylorsville (as they have in past years) ... although Taylorsville wasn't on board as the season started, but came in later. This team was much the same as the Superleague team ... missing Mason (playing on a different rec team), Stockton and Luis. CJ and Hunter were additions to the team. I don't think we ever had EVERYONE there, so I never got an official team picture.

We thought this season would be similar to Spring, pretty easy except for Mason's team ... it was actually more competitive than anticipated! While the boys won their first seven games (including Mason's team this season) they did have to work at it. Callahan almost didn't make the last game, as he'd been at scout camp for the week. Even with him there, they weren't able to get that win (Jared was out with a hurt heel). Crosby, a former teammate of Callahan was on the other team. So once again, it was a 7-1 season. I made one video this season ( game #5), you can see it HERE. 

Keaton - Gene Fullmer Summer 2012

Several players are taking the summer off, so we got several new boys on the team, including Keaton's friend True from school (he adds some much needed height to the team) ... I am jogging the track again, but the first game, Callahan and Keaton had back to back games at 10:00 and 11:00 and I didn't really feel like jogging for TWO hours, so I jogged during Callahan's game and took video of Keaton.

• Game 1:  Win. See video highlights HERE. 
• Game 2: Loss (to Steve's team)
• Game 3: Loss
• Game 4: Win. At Taylorsville. Keaton's game was at 12:00, Callahan's at 1:00, at different locations, so I had to leave early. Keaton made a couple great shots and they were leading at the end of the first quarter. With a minute left, Keaton's team was up by two, and then he made a three pointer to seal the game ... sorry I missed that!
• Game 5: Loss (Brian's team)
• Game 6: Win (by forfeit) ... the other team didn't show. Keaton wasn't at this game either as he was just getting home from scout camp.
• Game 7: Win ... the other team was almost all GIRLS. Video HERE. 
• Game 8: Win 

Dimple Dell Summer Superleague

Summer Superleague ...

 new uniforms and a name change, the boys are now NITROUS ...

Rowland is taking the summer off, we're not sure if he'll be back. Ben (from Callahan's CopperHills team) and Bryson have joined the team. There are several of the same teams from Spring season, some teams are taking the summer off, and others will be a new challenge to face. All the games this season will be played at the Dimple Dell Rec center.  You can see the schedule and standings HERE and I'll try to keep this blog updated with game recaps and videos ...

• Game 1. Nitrous vs Thunder (WIN) 52-47. The other team took the lead for the first half, but our boys came back in the third and held it to the end for the win. Video highlights HERE.
• Game 2. Nitrous vs Hurricanes (WIN) 54-32. This will probably be our easiest game this season ... our boys came out strong from the start, although the other team did come back just enough to make things a little nervous. Video highlights HERE.
• Game 3. Nitrous vs Pump N Run (WIN) 56-35. I was expecting a tougher game today. We had barely beaten this team for the championship in Spring, and they were having a rough start to the season (having to face the two hardest teams right off the bat). I figured they were ready for a win and a rematch. Unfortunately (for them) quite a few of their teammates were missing today ... they only had five players, which does put you at a disadvantage. We were actually listed first (as home team) but they went ahead and changed their red jerseys to white (... one of their players simply had a white t-shirt, so I think that influenced that, but we prefer being all red anyway). It was a good game, the lead shifted several times and at the end of each quarter, there were only a few points separating the two teams... until the fourth, when our boys were able to pull ahead for the win. Highlights HERE. 
• Game 4. Nitrous vs Utah Dynasty (WIN) 59-46. We were missing Mason and Stockton, luckily this was one of the teams we could still handle without them. We'd played them twice before (although the second time we faced them in Spring season they really gave us a challenge).  Highlights HERE. 
• Game 5. Nitrous vs Shoot the Three (Loss) 45-47. SO close! It was pretty even for most of the game, with the lead shifting several times. The other team did come on strong in the fourth quarter, and even with a three point buzzer beater at the end we were still down two as the clock ran out. Callahan did make an incredible steal and half court shot at the end of the third quarter that we'll all remember though! We were missing Luis ... Highlights HERE.
• Game 6. Nitrous vs Swoosh (Loss) 29-36. No video highlights as I wasn't at this game (I was off seeing "Wicked" with Hubby for our anniversary). Callahan said it was just an "off" game, no one seemed able to score (he only got three points).  Still missing Luis.

So that concludes the summer season. It was a good one ... the top team (Elite Eight) was too good for this league (they should have played in the upper division), they demolished everyone (we never played them but I'm sure we would have met the same fate as the others), and the bottom team (Hurricanes) was a little out of their league getting beat every game. But the remaining six teams were pretty evenly matched. Any game could have easily gone the other way. It's good when you go in, not KNOWING who is going to win.

The championship was finally updated on the website ... we aren't sure WHAT happened. Originally, in the 2nd game, it had been posted that Elite Eight had won, but then that changed and it was Pump that moved on. Swoosh (the team that knocked us out of the tournament) ended up the winners.

Here's the stats from the season ...

Colton's Spring Soccer 2012

*** THE RED ROCKETS ***
Gavin, Bradley, Randon, Ivan, Colton

Brandon, Giana, Mia, Peter, Joey 

(Not pictured: Bryce, Luigi)

Spring Soccer! I had signed up Colton with his buddies Bradley and Randon with Gene Fullmer as we had done last Fall and last Spring. I ended up coaching again as well. We had a great season, undefeated (one game was a tie) ...

*** THE GREEN GATORS ***

Dallen, Macey, Addison, Kenyon, Carson, Coach Parry, Spencer, Charlie, Colton

Colton also ended up taking Cooper's spot in the West Jordan Youth Soccer League (as Cooper was signed up but refused to play). I had originally planned on just having Colton play on Cooper's team, but the league said he was a little too young. They did say there was a spot on a U6 team (which had several younger siblings from Cooper's U8 team) so we did that. They too were undefeated!

As I wasn't coaching Colton's green team, I got video of all the games and made two Muvees. The first one is of the first game, the second is ALL the remaining games compiled into one! Being coach of the red team, I was one the field most of the time, but I did have the assistant coach take over a game so I could get video, so I do have one muvee from my team too!

Green Gators Game #1
Games #2-7 Green Gater Goals!
Red Rockets, Game 3

Dimple Dell Spring 2012

After so many easy wins in the rec league, we wanted to try our hand at a Superleague. Dimple Dell offers one in the spring, so here we go! Mason and Rowland have rejoined us for this league and they are a big asset to the team! Scroll over the "Game" text to find the link to the game videos *Ü*

Game 1: Grizzlies vs Force (Win 51-35)
Game 2: Grizzlies vs Dawgzz (Win 63-50)
Game 3: Grizzlies vs Herriman 2 (Win 38-30)
Game 4: Grizzlies vs Hawks (Win 60-37)
Game 5: Grizzlies vs Lights Out (Loss 42-56)
Game 6: Grizzlies vs Utah Dynasty Black (Win 47-23)
Game 7: Grizzlies vs Spartans (Win 47-15)
Game 8: Grizzlies vs Utah Dynasty Black (Win 42-36)
Game 9: Grizzlies vs Herriman 2 (Win 45-40)
Game 10: Grizzles vs Pump and Run ...(Win 31-27)

For the big winners? T-shirts! They actually DO like t-shirts. Often they will all arrange to wear them to school on the same day.  And no basketball break for these guys, the summer season starts just next week!