12U update (Wed night)

The Lord giveth. The Lord taketh away. Just found out today that Chris will only play in our first two games in the Aiea 12U League. After that, he's committed to his football team, which begins playing games in February. The football games are on Saturday mornings, same time as our Aiea basketball league. He'll still be playing on Sundays in the CAL League (I think).

It's a big blow. Chris is our center, our best defensive post and inbounds play passer, one of our best pressbreaker passers, our rebounder and low-post scorer. We started this 12U team mainly because Chris wanted a chance to play against players his own age. (He's 11, turns 12 soon.) But now that we've built up a nice roster, here's the situation. We have seven players who will be available for all games. Three (see asterisks) are only coming occasionally.

So we need more players. Again. I'd like to have nine players available for every game. Nine full-timers. That means we need two more guys (or girls).

12U roster
Chris Alaivanu-Afe*
Micah Visoria*
Walter Berthold
Jared Elwin
Ryan Higashionna
Josh De Jesus
Micah Tong
Kai Nafarette*
Jaylen Young
Malosi Viena

* busy - Chris starts playing Saturday football games in February, Micah has baseball on Saturdays and Kai has his other basketball team to play with on Saturdays.