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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 1:00 AM CDT
Changes in Tri-County basketball tournaments
By Mike Monahan Staff Writer
mmonahan@jg-tc.com
OAKLAND – There is good news and bad news for the Tri-County tournaments. The bad news is that after eight years the Tri-County Thanksgiving Tournament has come to an end. The good news is that the Tri-County boys’ Holiday Tournament has grown to six teams.
“We tried to get teams from Indiana or anywhere else,” said Tri-County athletics director Jenny Kapraun-Veach. “Casey was going to stick with us.”
Now Casey is to compete at Robinson, which is where Charleston went last year.
The girl’s tournament began in 1999 with Charleston, Charleston’s junior varsity, Atwood-Hammond and Oakland-Kansas in the four-team round-robin. Charleston won the inaugural tournament. The next year Martinsville joined the tournament in place of the Charleston junior varsity squad. Oakland-Kansas won the 2001 title as the Charleston junior varsity was in the tournament again. In 2002 and 2003 the tournament included Oakland-Kansas, Charleston, Casey-Westfield (which then was in a co-op with Martinsville) and Paris Paris won the 2003 tournament. In 2004 the tournament changed from the Oakland-Kansas Thanksgiving Tournament changed to the Tri-County Thanksgiving Tournament as Oakland and Kansas formed a sports co-op. Martinsville won the 2004 tourney, which also included Casey-Westfield, Charleston and Tri-County. The same four teams competed in the 2005 tournament won by Tri-County. Last year Martinsville won the tournament, which had shrunk to three teams with Casey-Westfield and Tri-County competing.
The boys’ tournament has included Tri-County, Cowden-Herrick, Arthur, Martinsville and Cumberland the last three years, all of which have been the Tri-County Holiday Tournament.
Cumberland is not to be in the tournament this year as they are to be in the Charleston Holiday Tournament. Joining the tournament which began as the Kansas New Year’s Tournament in the 1990’s and was also formerly the Kansas Holiday Tournament, are Chrisman and Hutsonville-Palestine.
“We would have liked to have eight teams, but at least we got six,” said Kapraun-Veach. “We are very excited to get more teams interested in coming down there. Every team is to play five games this year and the round-robin format is to continue instead of making it a three-team pool play tournament.”
Oakland has hired Luis Mendoza, who was a defensive backs coach at Eureka College last year, as an assistant coach and junior high social studies teacher. Mendoza has been a line coach at Arcola, where he graduated from in 1998, earning Chicago Sun Times Small School All-State honors. Mendoza played at McKendree College where he was an offensive lineman for the Bearcats who earned NAIA playoff appearances in 1999 and 2001.
Mendoza replaced Brian Gorman, who resigned in May.
Contact Mike Monahan at mmonahan@jg-tc.com or 238-6854.
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