Red Lake Men’s Basketball League Playoff’s Friday & Saturday April 1, 2006

The Team’s, season record, team avg.ppg, players (season points avg.)

#1 Mav’s (10-1) 71.9ppg -  Keveon Kingbird (28.1), Derek Smith (12.3), Garritte Caldwell (9.3), Ben Lovan (18), Gordon (6), Roger White (4.5), Justin Smith (4), Frank Graves (3)

#2 R.L. Kings (10-1) 109.3ppg – Nolan DesJarlait (17.2), Randy Holthusen (33.7), Gerald Kingbird (34.3), Dominic Johnson (5.1), Steve Johnson (5.5), Jeremy Spears (8.4), Chris Jourdain (5.1), Delwyn Holthusen (11.5), Cavey Rossbach (5)

#3 N8ive Ballaz  (7-4) 104.3ppg – Jeremy Martin (37.5), Mike Martin (19.5), Duke Beaulieu (10.6), Kyle Garrigan (18.1), Luke Graves (10), Mike S (6) Rowdy May (3), Keith Sumner, Rob Roy.

#4 Young Gunz (6-5) 79.2ppg – Darrell Crowe (21.2), Ola Cobenais (18), Ricky (16.7), Clayton Roberts (12.9), Jeff (9.8), Gary Nelson (8.8), Jerrell Martin (8.4), Dallas Crowe (8), Garrick (1.5), Corey Whitefeathr, Sr. (4), Rob Lussier.

#5 North Lake (5-6) 93ppg – Darrick Seki (27.5), Sonny Perkins (29), Challenge Johnson (20.4), Barney Perkins (4.5), Gordy Johnson (7.1), Chris (6.7), Casey (5.1), Carl (2) and Gary Swith one game of 27.

#6 RL Clippers (4-8) 63ppg - John Graves (7.6), Matt Graves (17.7), Byron Graves (11.7), Kevin Sigana (20.2), Jr. Graves (14), Kenny Graves (12.5), Nick Garrigan (9), Sean Lussier (5)

#7 89’ers (2-10) –59.2 ppg. Vern Morris (13.2ppg), Ron Perkins (2.8), John Morris, Jr (9.6), Buck Jourdain (21.6), Devin Roy (14.7), Shawn Martin (9.5), DJ (7.3), Shane May (7.2), Pete Thomas (3.6), Doug (2.6), Craig (1.5), Pat (1.5), Wally Green (1.2)

#8 Redby Boy’s (1-10) 54.4ppg – Justin Auginash (16.6), Jamie Auginash (19), Frank Defoe (6.4), Stephan Strong (4.1), Bill Brown (27.3), Kyle Raisch (10), Brandon (9.4), Opie Defoe (5.7), Brian Vasquez (4.4), Josh (1.4), Mike Graves (0.4), Tom Charnoski. 

Game #1 saw the Mavs defeat the Redby Boys. The Mavs were lead by Derek Smith who finished with 28, followed by Keveon Kingbird whith 26 and Ben Lovan with 21. The Redby Boys were led by Corey WF, Jr. with 19, Frank Defoe ended with 10.

Game #2 the Clippers were victorius over the N8ive Ballaz. Jeremy Marting led the Ballaz with 24, Mike Martin, 20. The Clippers had a balanced attack led by Byron and Matt Graves each with 19, Kevin Sigana with 18.

Game #3 North Lake defeated the Young Gunz 96-89 in a good game that saw the Young Gunz fight back to tie it in the later part of the game. North Lake was led by Sonny Perkins with 44, Challenge Johnson had 18. The Young Gunz had a balanced attack that was led by Roberts with 25, Jerrell Martin with 24.

Game #4 the Kings stopped the 89’ers in a game that saw them jump out to a 23-0 lead that they never relinquished. The final score was 91-51 that was called due to the marcy rule. The Kings were led by R. Holthusen with 35, D. Holthusen with 15. The 89er’s scoring was John Morris, Jr. with 15, Vern Morris 14.

Game#5 the Young Gunz defeated the Redby Boys 97-86 in the first game of Saturday. The Gunz were led by Jeff Barrett with 24, Clayton Roberts and Darrell Crowe each with 16. The Redby Boy’s season ended with Justin Auginash hitting 47 in a losing effort, and Frank Defoe with 19.

Game #6 the N8ive Ballaz ended the 89er’s season 101-96 to advance to the next game. The Ballaz were led by season MVP Jeremy Martin putting in 50, Kyle Garrigan with 27. The 89’ers were led by John Morris with 32, Matt with 23, Devin with 21.

Game #7 saw the Clippers defeat the Mav’s 77-71 To advance to the comforts of championship game. The Clippers had a balanced attack with Byron Graves hitting 17, Matt Graves and Jr. Graves each with 13. Keveon Kingbird hit 33, Andrew with 14, Garritte Caldwell 11.

Game #8 the Kings stopped another game against North Lake with the 40-point rule, 88-39 in 25 minutes. Kings scoring was R. Holthusen with 35, Gerald KB 20.

Game #9 featured the Mavs versus the Young Gunz, in which the Gunz came back at the end and made it interesting before coming up one point short in a 90-89 ballgame, that saw a missed lay-up with 18 seconds left prove to be a costly miss. Keveon KB had 36, Andrew Eck 18, Derek Smith 16. Gunz were led by Darrell Crowe 38, Corey WF 16 to end their season.

Game #10 ended up a classic that featured North Lake against the N8ive Ballaz, in a hard fought contest  that was 50-43 at the half with North Lake’s Darrick Seki hitting a 3 at the buzzer to end the half. The second half was close with the game staying within a 1-point lead until a TO with 12:53 left score 66-63 North Lake. The Ballaz took their first lead 69-68 with 11 minutes to go. Ballaz were up 76-73 after a TO with 8:32 left with all the making of a classic finish. Challenge Johnson hit an NBA range 3 to cut the lead to 84-82 with 5 minutes left, as the teams traded 3’s for the next couple of trips down the floor. Seki tied it up from the free-throw line 87-87 with 4 minutes left. North Lake regained the lead 91-90 with 2:30 left on a lay-up by Seki. Mike Martins free-throws gave the lead back to the Ballaz 92-91 with 1:50 left. A steal with 1:41 left by Perkins led to Seki being fouled before a turnover gave the ball back to the Ballaz. Perkins came up with another big steal to give his team the ball back with 1:20 left and hit a clutch 2 to regain the lead 93-92. Foul by J. Martin put Barney Perkins at the line, he front end of a one & one. Seki called a timeout as he was falling out of bounds with 16.9 seconds left, up 94-92. Sonny Perkins hit some clutch free throws before Kyle Garrigan hit a big 3 off a rebound miss by J. Martin to bring the score 96-95 with 4.3 seconds left. Johnson hit both free throws to ice the game with 2.2 left giving them the victory 98-95. North Lake was led by Challenge Johnson 30, Sonny Perkins, Derrick Seki 25. Ballaz Jeremy Martin 39, Mike Martin 15 to end the Ballaz season.

Game #11 was a rough and tough game between The Clippers and The Kings. The Clippers held on to win by 8 and advance to the championship. The Kings jumped out to an early lead, but the Clippers battled back under some hot shooting by Byron Graves from outside to take a hafltime time lead by 6. They held the lead throughout the second half as the Kings played hard to keep up with them. The second half saw emotions take over as D. Holthusen was ejected after picking up 2 T’s for arguing a call, which put M. Graves at the line who hit 3 of 4 free-throws. The Kings got it as close to 4 with 2 minutes left, before the Clippers hit clutch free-throws down the stretch to hold on by 8, 87-79, scoring honors, Byron Graves 30, Matt Graves 16, for the Kings D. Holthusen had 29, R. Holthusen 23, Gerald KB 16 in a game which he left with an injury midway through the second half.

Game #12 was The Mav’s against North Lake.  The Mavs jumped out to a 21-7 lead at the 15 minutes mark. Score at halftime was 61-38 with the Mav’s in control, which they never lost going on to win 95-65 on the mercy rule to end North Lakes season. Mav’s were led by Keveon KB 32, Ben Lovan 25. North Lake led by Sonny Perkins 19, Derrick Seki 14 in the losing effort.

Game #13 was the Mav’s versus the Kings in a showdown of the two teams with the top records in the regular season squaring off to go to the championship. It was a classic game that went down to the wire with both teams fighting hard to reach championship. The final score after one overtime was 124-123 Mav’s to advcance for a showdown against the Clippers. Mav’s led by Keveon KB once again with 47, Andrew Eck 32, and Derek Smith 23. The Kings ended their season with a third place trophy were led by R. Holthusen 51, Nolan Dez 33, Nick Johnson 16, Chris Jourdain 10.

Game #14 was the championship game with the Mav’s coming thru the loser’s bracket to face the unbeaten Clippers with hopes of forcing 2 games. With 4:41 left in the first half the Mav’s were up 40-30. Halftime score was 48-40 Mav’s. 71-60 Mav’s was the score with 12:00 minutes left. The Mav’s kept the tough defensive pressure on and held the Clippers scoring for the next 6 minutes puling out to a 82-68 lead with 6 minutes to go. The Mav’s big man Ben Lovan fouled out with 5 minutes to go, which led to a score inside, Andrew Eck hit a big 3 the next trip down. Matt Graves hit an and1 and scored on a steal to bring it to 8 with 2 minutes left. The Mav’s up by 8 in the final 2 minutes elected to run out the clock and force the Clippers to foul. Kingbird hit a bank shot for 3 to ice the game with 17 seconds left, final 93-79 to force the final game. Scoring honors went to Andrew Eck with 35, Keveon KB 23. Matt Graves led the Clippers with 23, Byron Graves hit 15 in the losing effort.

Game#15 The Clippers started out with an 8-6 lead in the first 5 minutes. The next 5 minutes saw the Clippers extend their lead to 19-12. Keveon KB hit an NBA range 3 to bring the game within 2 at the 6:27 mark. Jr. Graves scored was fouled, but missed the free throw. The Mav’s were without one of their top guns from outside Derek Smith, who said “I got ‘em this far, its up to them now”.  Mav’s TO with 3:06 left and the Clippers up 28-25. Matt Graves hit a driving lay-up and was fouled and hit the and1, extending the lead to 34-28 with 1 minute to go. Halftime score was 37-31 Clippers. After 5 minutes in the second half score was 49-39 Clippers. The Mav’s hit a 3 to cut the lead to 51-47 and force the Clippers to call a TO. The lead was still 4 at the 10 minute mark. The Clippers pulled out a 12 point lead on some big 3’s by Jr. Graves. The score at the 5 minute mark was 76-64 Clippers. Effective ball movement gave the Clippers a 81-73 lead with 1:30 left and the Clippers went into moving the ball and killing the clock. Kenny Graves secured a crucial rebound with 40 seconds left. Final score 73-82 Clippers as Champions.