Submitted by Shawn Martin

On Friday April 4 and Saturday April 5, the SRC and NF basketball program hosted a youth tournament at Salmon River Central School. Twenty-three boys and girls teams ranging from 5th – 12th grade participated in the two-day event with some great action, great young skills and a whole lot of fun.

Local home teams were the NC Panthers, 7/8th grade AAU team coached by Matt Mitchell, NF Shamrocks 5/6th boys coached by Dan Martin and Pat Ghostlaw, Salmon 12U boys, and the Chargers 12U girls, both coached by Tommy Smith.

By the end of the two days, a champion was crowned in each division. In the 5/6th grade division, held in the arena gym, Malone beat out Brushton-Moira 2 by a score of 54-8.

For the girls, Northern Adirondack (NAC) outlasted Massena in OT for a 27-25 win.

In the 7/8 division, the St. Regis Falls team beat Brasher Falls to win the boys side 47-32 and Massena, with their deep bench, overcame a 2 point halftime deficit to upend home team NC Panthers 28-21.

In the 12U division, powerhouse Malone AAU beat the home team SR Shamrocks after Salmon upended Massena (The Hamelin Experiment) in the semis, by a score of 57-36.

For the girl's 12U, Salmons' Chargers squad beat Malone in the championship game 51-28.

Home team Rosters:

NC Panthers: Dava Thomspon, Lexis Jacobs, Lauren Martin, Bailey Rabideau, Emily Dumville, Alicia Mitchell and Paige Cox.

NF Shamrocks: Darren Rourke, Logan Foster, Keeson Oakes, Isaac Brill, Tanner Martin, Justin Martin, Lane Oakes, Eddie Oakes, PJ Ghostlaw, Reese Conners and Joe Barnes.

Salmon Boys: Antoine Domino, Zach Smith, Ben Kelly, Tyler Brooks, Brandon Burdash, John Harvey, Jordan Bigness, Josh Hynes, Nick Hynes and Jordan Wood.

Salmon Chargers: Sarah Villvamore, Brianna Sapp, Emily Marshall, Morgan Fountain, Megan O'Conner and Taylor Francis.

Thank you to all the volunteers on the clocks and scorebooks, concessions; Andrea Martin, Liz Durfee, Shawn Mott, Connie Gerow, Austin Leduc, Ashley Martin, Tammy Burdash, Julie Brooks, Jami and Shilo Leduc, Missy Conners and her family (concessions), varsity boys players, freshman class members, and the SR custodial staff.

Boys 6U champs – Malone.

Special thanks to SRC to allow us to host, Tarbell Management Group for donating from Papa Johns Pizza and Tim Hortons Coffee, and to the coordinators Pete Ghostlaw, Dan Mainville, and Tommy Smith, a big thank you for your efforts.

Without any of their support and dedication to NF youth sports, none of this would have been possible.