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to the new online home of Armstrong Youth Basketball
Welcome to the Home Page of the Armstrong 5 Red Traveling Team
Information on each of our past tournaments can be found on the "Game Schedule" Link, above. We welcome your comments and feedback, in the "Comments" section below.
LATEST HEADLINES
Second in St. Cloud!
2/25-2/26: In a thrilling, overtime game against OMGBA, the 5 Red boys came up 3 points short to take second place in the St. Cloud Quarry Classic. Fantastic effort by all throughout the entire tournament, including strong wins against Foley and Rosemount Irish on the first day of pool play. Now on to State!
NEXT UP
MYAS State Tournament: 3/10 - 3/11
All Games will be in our home gym, at either Plymouth Middle School (for Courts 6 and 7), or Armstrong High School (for Courts 1-5).
March 10
Game 1: 8:00 am on Court. 7 vs. Eagan 5A
Win or Lose, Game 2 is at 11:30 am in either Ct. 6 or Ct. 7
March 11
TBD
Link to 5th Grade 7A Division info here
General MYAS State Tourney link here
ANNOUNCEMENTS/TEAM INFO
Meet Your Armstrong 5 Red Players!
Todd Biewen
Coach
Phone: 612-749-5346
David Fogel
Manager
Phone: 952-905-8771
Reality Check:
As of March 5th - and heading into State Tournament - Armstrong 5 Red has a 25-8 record, with five first-place finishes, two second-place finishes, one consolation championship, and one third-place finish.
We have won 22 out of our last 26 games!
WHERE WE'VE BEEN
Consolation Champs in Wayzata!
Feb. 18-19: After losing a physical game to Minneapolis FAB, 5 Red rebounded with wins against Minnetonka and Chaska to take the Consolation Championship.
Miles demonstates "pool play" at St. Cloud Holiday Inn
5 Red Wins Armstrong Classic!
Not in our house! Over the Feb. 11-12 weekend, the 5A team took first place in our home tournament, the Armstrong Classic, beating STMA (35-25), Eden Prairie (45-30) and Wayzata (46-38).
Andover Champs!
During the Jan. 7-8 Andover tournament, the squad beat OMG II (51-17), Hopkins (46-38), Orono (43-36) and Elk River (49-31) to take home the first place trophy, and bring our season record to 13-5!
1st Place in Delano Tourney!
In a 1-day tournament on Saturday, January 28th, convincing wins against Willmar (50-40), Buffalo (53-27) and Waconia (48-32) gave Armstrong 5 Red the 1st place trophy (a unique trophy, at that!). Special congratulations to Miles V, who had his first double-digit scoring game of the season, with 10 points against Buffalo.
#1 in Hopkins AA!
Over the weekend of Jan. 14-15, the boys took home 1st place in a pool play format tournament against Chanhassen (42-33 loss), Cottage Grove (42-25 win) and one of our ongoing rivals, Wayzata (44-36 win).
First in Elk River Tourney!
Balanced Contributions Lead Armstrong 5 Red to wins over Moundsview (44-14), Coon Rapids (47-19), Brooklyn Park (49-46) and Orono (40-38), resulting in a First Place finish at Elk River Tourney on Dec. 3-4.
2nd Place in Orono Spartan Classic!
Over December 10-11, our 5 Red Team bested Chaska (42-36) and Wayzata in the semi-final match (35-34) to make it to the championship game. Although Edina won (41-31), our semi-final win over Wayzata was particularly satisfying, given that Wayzata had beaten us by 19 points (!) just 3 weeks ago, on November 20th.
3rd Place at Cooper Classic!
Thanks to well-rounded contributions from all team members on Sunday, Armstrong 5 Red came away from the Nov. 12-13 Cooper Classic with its first medals of the season. The strong showing against Blaine saw our team improving its chemistry and overall protection of the ball.
MISC. TEAM PICS
Going over the drills
Relaxing in the Hot Tub
Team Unity!
COMMENTS
Comments Welcome Here
Todd Proctor ·
Wow! You guys are having a great season, keep it up! Way to go Miles, I remember when you and Alex were on the same house team. 6Red joined you with a 1st Place as well!
Miles ·
Thank you Mr.Todd.
David M Fogel ·
I'll start this new section off by saying how proud I am of all the players. We've come so far since our first tournament. Way to go boys!
Coach Todd ·
I'm very proud of all of you guys. It's been a great season and now we have some real challenges coming up, starting with our home tournament this weekend. I'm really looking forward to getting back out on the court with you guys for some intense action.
Be ready!!
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