Galesburg Summer Shootouts & League

28^th- Galesburg Girls Basketball Summer League

Dates:  League- June 3- July 1    Every Tues and Thur Evening (4pm-9pm)

            Shootout- Fri June 6 & Sat June 7

            Shootout- Tue July 1 and Wed July 2

Place: Galesburg High School, Churchill Jr. High, Lombard Middle School.

Flexible Entry: Teams may sign up for the dates they wish to play. In the past we have had some teams sign up for the entire league, some for only Tuesday games, some all but a week their players are going away to camp, and some only one or two evenings. All we expect is that if you sign up, you show up because another team is counting on you.

Number of Games: League Nights- 1-2 games per night. Shootouts- 1-4 games per day.

Entry Fee: League fee is $35 per game

Deadline: May 7.

 For Entry Forms or Questions- Contact Evan Massey at  emass70@yahoo.com

Streaks Camps

(Tentative Dates- May Need to be adjusted if state asks for all snow days to be made up)

Skills Academy             (Grades in 2013-14)             Tuesdays & Thursdays        
Grades 1-5     April 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24     5:30-6:45pm              Thiel Gym
Grades 6-8     April 8, 10, 15, 17, 22, 24     6:45-8:00pm              Thiel Gym

Shooting School               (Grades in 2013-14)             Sundays (No session on Easter)
Grades            3-8      April 6, 13, 27            6:45-8:00pm              Thiel Gym

 Streaks Camp    (Grades in 2014-15)

Grades 2-5     1:00-2:30pm              June 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12  Wicall Gym
Grades  6-8    11:30am-1:00pm      June 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 11, 12  Wicall Gym
Grades  9-10  7:30-9:00am              June 3, 4, 5, 6                         Churchill Gym
                        7:30-9:00am              June 9, 10, 11, 12                  Thiel Gym
Grades 11-12 4:00-6:00pm              June 2, 4                                 Thiel Gym
                        9:00-11:00am            June 3, 5, 6                             Churchill Gym
                        9:00-11:00am            June 9, 10, 11, 12                  Thiel Gym

 Summer League (Grades in 2014-15)          Tuesday & Thursday Evenings in Galesburg

Open to girls who will be in 7-12 grade—players must be attending Streaks Camp. JH age=$15, HS age work scoring. Info will be given first day of camp, no practices required.

Name___________________________________________________   Phone___________________________

Address________________________________________________ City/Zip__________________________

Email____________________________________________

Grade in 2014-5____________  School will attend_________________________________________

T-Shirt Size  ___XXL    ____XL   ___L    ___M    ___S    ____YL    ____YM (Streak Campers only)

______Skills Academy            $45               
 _____ Shooting School          $25
_____Streaks Camp                $75                
 _____ JH League                     $15

_____ “All in Discount”   Attending Skills, Shooting, & Streaks Camp                        $110

            (Junior High players get all three camps plus League for $110)
(Family rate- 2^nd daughter pays ½ price, 3^rd daughter pays ¼ price, 4^th free. This includes “All in Discount)

In and for the consideration of my daughter’s participation in the Streaks Academy, Streaks’ Camp and/or the Galesburg Summer League, I hereby agree and promise that I will not hold District #205, Streaks Camp, Galesburg Summer League, or the staffs responsible for any loss, damage, or personal injuries or illnesses that she may receive as a result of participation. In addition, I acknowledge I have insurance to cover medical expenses of my daughter. I grant permission for her to participate.

Parent or Guardian’s Signature ____________________________________

Phone during Camp Hours_____________

Return to: Coach Evan Massey,  1535 N.Prairie St., Galesburg, Illinois 61401. Make checks payable to Streaks Basketball. If you have any questions emass70@yahoo.com

Entry forms are available off Streaks.org later this month.
You can highlight this form and make your own entry form.

Updated Records

Check the record page for our updated records. Sorry they are no very neat- not sure how to transfer them and keep the format looking good.

"Got To Be Looking Forward"

The great thing about coaching high school is you always see young players coming up with potential. When you watch junior high players, they are always enthusiastic, play with passion, and have so much potential.

I always joke that whenever I go to a Churchill- Lombard game, somebody always says to me, "Coach, you have got to be excited about this group coming up." This year was no exception, I had three people say the exact version of this statement.

And I don't ever hesitate, "Yes, I am excited this group." That is why I am still coaching. It is easy to see the potential of the young players coming up.

Losing Human Interaction

The seeding for the Geneseo Regional were posted on the IHSA website yesterday. The results were:
1- Geneseo
2- Galesburg
3- Alleman
4- Dunlap
5- IVC

Before I begin to give my thoughts, let me make one thing clear-- based on IHSA seeding guidelines, Geneseo should have been the #1 seed, so that is not the issue of my thoughts.

Back in the old days, each coach attended the seeding meeting and you had to sit across a table and give your seeds. So if you were going to seed a team low, you had to say in front of that schools coach. In the years this method was used, there would be some times when one coach would raise a question about another coach's seeds. And then a coach had to defend their seeding. At one particular seeding meeting, a Peoria coach verbally attacked a coach from the Mid-Illini for the coach's seeding. It was heated and it had some profanity in it.

Annawan Coach Suspended for Comments

From the Argus....

By Daniel Makarewicz, danmak@qconline.com

Annawan girls' basketball coach Jason Burkiewicz has been suspended until Monday. The district announced the suspension after an investigation that was publicly released on Tuesday afternoon. Burkiewicz's suspension stems from comments that appeared on Twitter last week.

Remaining Schedule

It appears this will be the finish for the Streaks this year....

Thu Feb 6- Rock Island at Thiel Gym  (5:30 & 7pm)

Sat Feb 8- New Trier at New Trier  (Noon & 1:30pm)

Mon Feb 10- Moline at Thiel Gym  (5:30 & 7pm)

Thu Feb 13- UT at East Moline (5:30 & 7pm)

Not sure many teams will finish their season with more of a challenge than the Streaks will have in their schedule. At this time, it appears the Manual game will not be rescheduled.

WB6 Standings

Standings thru Jan 30...

Rock Island     6-1

Moline             5-2

UTHS              4-3

Galesburg         3-4

Alleman            3-4

Quincy             0-7

The top two teams of the WB6 visit Thiel Gym next week. I hope a lot of our Streaks fans will come out to give us a home court advantage!!!

Streaks over Quincy

From the Register-Mail and Matt Wheaton....

GALESBURG — The Galesburg High School girls basketball team cruised to a 70-31 victory over Quincy on Thursday night in Western Big 6 Conference action at John Thiel Gymnasium.

The Silver Streaks (15-11, 3-4) were never challenged by the Blue Devils (0-16, 0-7) in the contest.

“An unusual situation. Quincy is obviously down,” said Galesburg coach Evan Massey, who is now three wins away from the 800th of his career.

“I thought we fouled a little too much but that’s being picky. We were aggressive defensively — got a lot of steals. I thought we did a nice job moving the ball against the zone, so we got open shots inside.”

Rocky beat UT

From the Quad City Times...

“Be strong! Be strong!” Rock Island girls basketball coach Thad Hoover shouted to his players as the Rocks tried to keep the ball away from a swarming United Township defense in the closing minutes of Thursday’s Western Big Six showdown.

Mentally and physically, the Rocks played strong to build a double-digit lead and they finished the game the same way.

Thanks to a massive 53-32 rebounding advantage and poise down the stretch, Rock Island grabbed a 61-41 victory from the Panthers to avenge its only conference loss of the season.

Following the game, Hoover said he saw a clear difference in his team, which struggled mightily from the foul line in a two-point loss at UT on Dec. 12, and his team that closed out the Panthers with confidence Thursday on its own court.

“You hope that you’re maturing as a team and I thought we made a lot of strides in the right direction that way,” Hoover said. “I just thought we played a mature game, from top to bottom.”

Moline Over Alleman

From the Argus....

Moline's 'Coach K' gets win in Ford's WB6 absence

Posted Online: Jan. 30, 2014, 10:22 pm

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By Marc Nesseler, nesseler@qconline.com

MOLINE — Russ Kooken was OK with his Moline girls' basketball varsity head-coaching debut only lasting 70 minutes. He was OK with the game-changing basket being a third-quarter, buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Lily Eastman that he ordered, even though it caromed way too high off of the backboard before somehow settling into the cylinder. And he is definitely OK with going back to being coach Steve Ford's right-hand man, with Ford sitting out Thursday's 36-30 win over Alleman at Wharton Field House after getting two technical fouls for an ejection in the Maroons' game last weekend at Rockford Boylan.

Top Teams in the Area

Here are the rankings of area girls basketball teams by the Argus in the Quad Cities and the Journal Star in Peoria.

Journal Star
1- Morton    21-3
2- Washington 17-2
3- Richwoods  15-6
4- Limestone  14-7
5- Notre Dame  11-13

It should be noted in their meeting earlier in the year that Washington beat Morton. They play this Saturday.

Argus

 1. Annawan (16-4)
 2. Sherrard (21-2)
3. Muscatine (15-2
4. Prophetstown (21-2)
5. Rock Island (15-6)
6. Moline (14-9)
7. Assumption (11-6)
8. North Scott (11-5)
9. United Township (14-7)
10. Stark County (17-5)
 11 (tie). Burlington Notre Dame (15-1)
 11 (tie). Mediapolis (15-1)
 13. Rockridge (16-7)
 14. Sterling (14-8)
 15. Alleman (11-14)
 16. Erie (15-8)
 17 (tie). Camache (10-4)
 17 (tie). Monmouth-Roseville (14-10)
 17 (tie). Pleasant Valley (10-7)

It should be noted that #9 UTHS has beaten both Moline and Rock Island. UT and Rocky face off this Thursday. Sterling, who we beat by 20 in early January clocks in at #14.