12U wins opener

Final: Thunder 50, Sharks 32. Solid work today by our 12U in their first game in the Aiea League. Jared Elwin gave us excellent leadership at the point. Micah Visoria and Ryan Higashionna were energized and did great work on the presses. Micah Tong had a lot of energy on both ends and shot well. We got a lot of hustle plays from Joshua de Jesus. Our subs, Walter Berthold, Javan Montiho and Felcris Jay Corpuz gave us a lot of positive plays, too.

Sharks are very young, mostly 11-year-olds, and two of them were originally going to play with us before they put the team into the league. We've got three more kids ready to start practicing with us — Nicole, Ian and Kalai. That will be awesome! We'll have the depth we need to go hard defensively every second of the game. We'll be able to go full speed on every fastbreak.

It's going to take a lot of practicing and precision as a team, but we could average 60 points per game. That would make me happy. For now, I'm just glad everybody hustled and played fast and smart today. We're going to get better and better. WE LUB THIS GAME.

Updated roster 12U, 1/19

Roster as of 1/17, 11 pm
Micah Visoria
Walter Berthold
Jared Elwin
Ryan Higashionna
Josh De Jesus
Micah Tong
Felcris Corpuz

Javin Montiho

Kalai Kuia* 

Ian*

Nicole*

Malosi Viena*
Chris Alaivanu-Afe*

* Malosi hasn't been to practice, Chris has football on Saturdays. Ian and Nicole (brother and sister) are young and new, same with Kalai.