THE ST LOUIS EAGLES TOOK ON THE HOUSTON HOOPS FOR THE 17U TITLE

The St Louis Eagles took on the Houston Hoops for the 17U championship title. Houston Hoops came out and started playing in a zone defense. Both of these teams came out hungry and really got after each other.

Both of these teams looked to push the ball up the court in the first half. They wanted to get the ball out of the net and wanted to push the ball up the court.

Both of these teams went at each other in the first half. Neither of these teams was able to really get on a run.
St Louis pushed the ball and ran a motion offense in the first half. There was a good pace in the first half. It was a good tempo as both teams did look to run. St Louis used both man to man and zone defense in the first half.
Both teams were able to knock down shots in the first half. The first half was a defensive battle as both teams played both a zone and man to man defense.

At half time the score was St Louis 36 and the Houston Hoops 42.

Both of these teams came out fired up ready to play in the second half. Tarrance Brown has really played aggressive for the Eagles. He had a couple of nice no look passes to his teammates and has been able to make some shots.

Houston Hoops tried to slow the game down for a bit in the second half. As they passed the ball around the three point arch they wanted to burn as much time off the clock as they could.

Houston really came alive in the second half and they were able to hold off St Louis on a number of occasions in the second half. It was a great game to end a great weekend of basketball. Both of these teams really have done well the whole tournament. They were able to give us a great final game.

St Louis went on a run in the middle of the second half. They tied the game at 65 with 4:00 left in regulation. Houston didn’t seem to know what hit them. They seemed sluggish and for a point in the second half and that is when St Louis put it on them.

St Louis was able to go on a run to finish out the game. They rallied together and they were able to pull the game out down the stretch. But they did have a scare when Houston made a last minute run and got within two points with less than 15 seconds left.

St Louis was able to come away with the 76-75 victory in a great championship game.

I was joined by the Czar of Twin Cities Boys Hoops. You can read his thoughts about the weekend’s events here.