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Show KAYSVILLE'S SUCCESSFUL AAU team returned home from Washington with plenty plen-ty of good news. They are pictured here (front row, 1 to r) Kevin Hyde, Ryan Meier, Kregg Thompson and Tyler Heath. Second row , Cole Stephens, Ryan Kirkpatrick, Owen Fisher and Ryan Willard. Back row, Coaches Craig Fisher, Dave Heath and Kyle Stephens. AAU team a. smccess two complete light and dark uniforms, uni-forms, warm-ups, matching shoes, etc. The game was very intense with the Kaysville club coming out on top, this time by a three point margin. By winning this game, it enabled the Kaysville club to make it to the final eight teams still vying for the first place spot. Kaysville's next competition was a team from Florida. Kaysville got off to a slow start and was never able to recover, Finally losing by a total of six points. They then faced a team from Charlotte, North Carolina which had a ten-year old boy that was 6'2" that's right, 6'2". Kaysville again got off to a slow start and lost to a team that was a good team and very tall. During the week of July 26 through Aug. 2 the Kaysville Cougar ll and under basketball team converged on Bellevue, Wash, to compete in the National AAU-Jr. Olympics Basketball championship. The Kaysville team won the right to represent Utah in the national na-tional championships by winning the Utah AAU tournament in late March, 1986. The original team was formed in late November, 1985. Several area young men tried out after which eight boys were selected for the team. They practiced prac-ticed three days a week at 6 a.m. to get themselves in shape for the competition. The team entered an eight week Super league, for It year olds, sponsored by the Salt Lake County Recreation Dept. as a warm up to the Utah AAU tournament. The team played well and was able to win the tournament going undefeated. undefe-ated. They then moved onto the Utah AAU tournament where they won their first four games before losing at the last second by one point to a South Ogden team. Because it was a double elimination tournament, this forced a second game the same night which Kaysville won by eight points and won the Utah Championship Cham-pionship outright. The team was led by Owen Fisher at center and Tyler Heath at guard. The boys took the next couple of months off before resuming their early morning practices the latter part of June. The national tournament began by having all of the teams participate partici-pate in an Olympic style opening ceremonies complete with introduction intro-duction of teams and entertainment. entertain-ment. The Kaysville Cougars began their competition by beating a fine team from Iowa by one point. They then played South Nevada which again took them to the wire, winning win-ning by two points. The tournament was set up on a pool play system where the first and second place teams in each pool moved on to the final championship cham-pionship bracket with 16 teams. By winning their first two games, the Kaysville team won their pool placing them in the final 16. The Cougars' next competition was a team from Mephis, Tennessee Tennes-see known as the Memphis Celtics. The coaches indicated that this was a very classy team complete with matching dress suits as well as |
