02/27/06

 

The U11 '94 Wizards Black and '94 Wizards White teams finished as champions and runners-up respectively at the 2006 Salty Dog Tournament in the U/10-11 Boys & girls bracket .  The U11 boys entered two teams in the tournament.  The White team -- Carter Bakkum, Hunter Bynum, Kenyon Knowles, Joel Nochimson, Kamran Rahman, Noor Rahman, Andrew Smith, Alfonso Speed, Simon Watrous -- finished in first place after the round-robin leg of the tournament with a 4-0-0 record.  They beat the U10 Wizards, U11 Phoenix, Smithfield U10s, and U11 Black.  The Black team -- David Arczynski, Jonathan Cullom, Matthew Cullom, Dylan Ford, Ta'jee Harley, Morgan Hensley, David Lees, Ryan Sidhu, Joe Uzdavinis -- finished in second place with a 3-0-1 record, beating U10 Wizards, U11 Phoenix, and Smithfield U10, and losing 2-1 to U11 White.  The two teams played each other for the second time in the final game to determine tournament champions.  The Black team turned the tables on the White team and beat them convincingly 6-2 to secure the 2006 Salty Dog Championship.