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| Written by Staff report / Tracy Press / | |
| Saturday, 24 November 2007 | |
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Basketball tournament to raise money for scholarships.
It’s all for a good cause, but that doesn’t mean the Tracy and West high basketball teams aren’t taking it seriously. All four hoops teams will tip off Monday night in the annual CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Foundation Game, part of a section-wide effort to raise money for student-athlete scholarships. Proceeds from ticket sales go to a section fund. Sixty-three teams across the section — from Grass Valley to Merced and from Napa to the Nevada border — will face each other in both boys and girls basketball for the cause. It’s a chance for old rivals to suit up against one another or an opportunity for teams to see how they’re coalescing. In Tracy, it’s the former. The Tracy and West girls will play at 6 p.m., and the boys will play afterward, scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m. All games are at Tracy High. The players probably take the contest more seriously than the coaches, West High girls head coach Joe Lawrence said. As each game is pure exhibition, with no bearing on a team’s record or its status in the playoff power rankings, it’s a prime opportunity for a coach to experiment with lineups and see what he or she has, and it’s a fine time for a player to step up and shine. “It’s nice for the town more than anything else to see the two teams early in the season,” Lawrence said Friday. “But the kids want to win real bad.” The Foundation Games have been going on in town for six seasons. The Wolf Pack girls have taken the past few meetings. The Tracy boys won the 2006 Foundation Game in the first of the two annual meetings between former coaching colleagues Paul Demsher of Tracy and Steve Thornton of West. Thornton was head coach at Tracy before West High opened. This one isn’t worth any bragging rights, but the “real” game between the two teams is. This year’s is scheduled for Jan. 4. The girls crosstown match is Jan. 3.
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