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I hear Castlewood is also getting one.

The Crusaders basketball teams have been cordially invited to represent the state of TN at the 12th Annual World Youth Basketball Tournament presented by Sports Authority Aug 1st-Aug 5th, 2010 in Kailua-Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii. Please support our teams by sponsoring them to attend. Join us in making a dream a reality! Captain's Choice; $125.00 per person/$500.00 team. Lunch provided by KP Duty. Pro-shop gift certificate awarded to 1st-3rd place. Goodie bags for players. $1,000,000.00 HOLE-IN-ONE-GIVE AWAY (40 yr. annuity). Please help support the 2nd Harvest Food Bank by bringing a canned food item and receive a free Red Tee or Mulligan. Please email for entry form or visit Bristol Country Club Pro Shop for a copy.

There will be a Benefit Coed Softball Tournament that will be held on May 29th-30th in Castlewood, VA. There will be a 3 game guarantee and a $100 entry fee. Men will hit any 12 inch incrediball and the women will hit any 11 inch ball. There will be a 2 HR per inning limit. To enter or for more information call Barry at 276-393-8937 or 276-762-0235. All proceeds will go to the Castlewood High School girl's basketball program.

There will be a Benefit Coed Tournament that will be held on May 29th-30th in Castlewood, VA. There will be a 3 game guarantee and a $100 entry fee. Men will hit any 12 inch incrediball and the women will hit any 11 inch ball. There will be a 2 HR per inning limit. To enter or for more information call Barry at 276-393-8937 or 276-762-0235. All proceeds will go to the Castlewood High School girl's basketball program.

The 2nd Annual Kings and Queens of the Hill Coed Classic will be held May 15th-16th at the St. Paul High School field in St. Paul, VA. There will be a 3 game guarantee and a $100 entry fee. Men will hit any 12 inch incrediball and the women will hit any 11 inch ball. There will be a 2 HR per inning limit. To enter call Kevin at 276-762-0293 or Scott at 276-220-9708. All proceeds will go to the Blue Flames fastpitch team.

Only 4 Spots Remain Open

The 4th Annual May Mayhem Hoopfest will be held on May 8th-9th at Marion Intermediate school in Marion, VA. Divisions will include boys and girls 8U-17U. 2010 AAU rules will apply. We will be having a two day 5 game guarantee tournament for only $125. High school gyms will be used and certified officials. We will also by offering a multi-team discount. To enter call Scott at 276-220-9708 or 540-815-9751.

Only 6 Spots Remain Open-Deadline to Enter is Tomorrow 17U Boys - 1 15U Boys - 1 13U Boys - 1 10U Boys - 1 13U Girls - 1 9U Girls - 1

The 2nd Annual Best of the Best Talent Showcase II will be held April 16th-18th. We are taking for first 42 teams. This tournament is quickly becoming the elite youth basketball tournament in Southwest VA and Northeast TN. We are expecting teams from VA, TN, WV, KY and NC. Local college coaches and scouts may be on hand to watch some of the action. Some player information will be passed on to over 100 college coaches. * Location: Castlewood High School in Castlewood, VA * Divisions: 8U-17U Girls and Boys Divisions * 2010 AAU Age Rules Will Be Enforced * We accept all teams: AAU, YBOOA, USSSA, etc * Enter Fee is $100 * 3 Game Guarantee * Team Awards for 1st and 2nd * Contact Wayne Rasnick at 276-762-9421 or wrasnick@russell.k12.va.us. 　 Registration Deadline: April 12th 　 Mail Payment to: Castlewood High School/Wayne Rasnick 304 Blue Devil Circle Castlewood, VA 24224

Post this on http://www.acahoops.com if you haven't already. There is a lot of traffic on there.

Coach M I hear you are having some issues at your school also. All I can say what goes around comes around. All these stuff you coaches try to pull will end up bitting you in the butt before it's all said in done. Your good friend knows what he did and knows what he has said, so if you want to know, ask him.

He didn't have anything to do with getting the players together or organizing the event. He didn't call players at home and try to recruit them to the Castlewood event like your good buddy did. Also there isn't text messages saved from Rasnick to players from other schools trying to recruit them, but there is from your good friend. He has tried to run our coaches name in the ground, but it looks like Rasnick will have the last laugh when all of the violations that has been comitted by your buddy come out. By the way you wasn't part of those illegal scrimmages going on was you ?? I sure hope not, because I don't believe Dr. Perry would like that too well.

I still don't know where you get I was coaching, but either way I'm out.

I didn't coach the games at Castlewood. I'm not sure where you got that. As for how a Castlewood player ended up playing in the game, he was called at home at the last minute along with 2 other Castlewood players and also a player from Pound. Most of these calls, if not all, were made after our roster came out. I'm done talking about it. This will be my last post on the matter. The games at Casltewood were really exciting and it was a big success. Next year we will do this again and the Hogo will host the event. Hopefully once our date is out, no one will try to step on our throats again. We would have been willing to work around the SWVA All-Star game, but did not find out about it until it came out in the paper. This was only 2 weeks before our event and it was too late to cancel at the time. We even looked to move ours to Friday night or Saturday day once we found out about the Bristol event, but the kids either had softball, baseball, track or even soccer going on. We just wanted to do something nice for the kids. Travis and I put a lot of time and effect into this and didn't receive or ask for anything in return. We did it, because we enjoy the game and enjoy helping kids. We are now planning another All-Star game and are going to do our best to make sure our schedule doesn't conflict with any other All-Star games.

The coaches or at least Coach Damron from St. Paul should and probably will get into some hot water over the crap he pulled trying to sabotage the Castlewood event. The all-star game in Castlewood was scheduled in January and the rosters were set by the first of February. Once the date was set and the rosters were finalized, he decided to bump heads with the date because of jealously. The games at Castlewood were much more competitive and had a much larger crowd. The girls team was effected by what he pulled, but the games, 3 point contest and dunk contest at Castlewood were much better than the Bristol games. Hopefully all the stuff Damron has pulled will come out and Gary Maggert from the FCA will never work with him again. Gary has did a lot of good things for the youth in our area and doesn't need to put the reputation of his organization in jeopardy, because of a guy like Damron. Even with all the crooked, underhanded stuff he tried to pull the All-Star in Castlewood has a huge success.

Pound - Josh Lowe, Grundy - Derrick Ashby, Marion - Matt Noe, Coeburn - Holden Burke and Brett Hall, Castlewood - Ruben Rasnick, Seth Justice, Zach Bush and Justin Smith.

Twin Springs - Ashley McConnell, Thomas Walker - Ashley Hensley and Jessica Montgomery, Carroll County - Kayla Goins, Audrey Dickens, Cydnie Cornell and Kaitlan Viars, Marion - Miranda Hayden and Morgan Goodbrod

The Hogoheegee said they could handle it and with the players they have I would say they will be just fine. I guess we will find out Saturday night.

Check out the Bristol paper for the coverage of our game. We have secured several of the best players from Southwest VA and I would love to play the winners. If Gary can get his guys back together we would definitley play them. Our Castlewood team has already beat most of the players that will be in Bristol all year long. You add the quality players we have from the SWD, BDD, LPD and I'm pretty sure we wouldn't have much trouble. The Hogoheegee team is pretty loaded also. Here is their rosters: Girls Kelsee Smith Kariana Moore Krystal Patton Elizabeth Harris Logan Moore Heather Hash Nicole Mooney Jett Haga Jenna Dix Julie Compton Eden Coe Boys Tristan Boysaw Drew Lester Tyler Akers Kenneth Waugh Seth McKinney Andrew Russell Andrew Arrington Ty Frye Jeremiah Thompson Trevor Hagen Tyler Dotson Jeremy Stepp

Gary is with FCA and he was advised over 2 months ago of our date. Me and the guy from the Hogoheegee was working with him on this and had worked with him in the past. Once we set our date and contacted the kids then that's when they scheduled their event. I don't believe it was Gary's fought and I'm not blaming him. I believe Gary is in it for the right reason and just got caught in some bitter coaches "BS". I'm sure there is some good players at the Bristol event, but to say they have the best when you have no idea who is playing in Castlewood is stupid. I can't say we have the best either, but I can tell you our teams are stacked. Me and Travis from the Hogoheegee set this up and Coach Rasnick had nothing to do with it. I just ask him if we could use the gym and that was it. I connect all of our players and Travis connect all of his. The coaches who are set this on the same weekend of ours are selfish. This should about the kids, not about how you can stick it to another coach. If you want to stick it to a coach, beat them. That's the best way to pay a person back. Good luck to all the kids at both events. I hope everyone stays injury free and has a great time. Hopefully Gary can schedule the winners of this thing to play each other, so we can see who actually has the better players.

Just blowing off some steam, but it's all good in the Wood. lol

Just because it's the orginial All-Star game doesn't mean it's the best. To say you have the best players is also a joke. No Castlewood boys was even ask to play in the game, even though they won the regionals and advanced to the final four. Rueban Rasnick was the player of the year and Seth Justice, Zack Bush and Justin Smith was all on the All-District team. Plus Coach Rasnick was the COY and wasn't even ask to coach the team. I do not have anything against FCA or Gary, he is a great guy and I don't blame this on him. I would love to have the winner of our games play the winner of the Bristol games. I could set that up for April 17th weekend if they want to do it. We have players from Castlewood, Coeburn, Pound, Chilhowie, Rural Retreat, Carroll County, Marion, Graham, Hurley, Thomas Walker, Ervinton, Patrick Henry, Holston, Northwood, George Wythe and Grundy. To be honest both events was hurt by the scheduling issues. Even though our event had been scheduled over 2 months ago a couple of the coaches that had an issue with Castlewood decide to try to sabotage our event, but it didn't work. I think it was pretty childish and selfish to do this to a bunch of kids, because that's who it hurt. I know personally, because I have talked to many of the kids and have been told this by them. Good luck to all the kids this weekend. Both games will have a lot of talented players and both should be a lot of fun to watch.

If you are a basketball fan you need to stop by Castlewood High School this weekend and watch some games. There is 36 teams there this weekend, 28 of them are high school teams. Plus there will be having the Senior Girls and Boys All-Star Game on Saturday night starting at 6:00. 40 of the best senior players from the LPD, BDD, SWD, Hogo and the Cumberland districts will be playing in the All-Star game. We will have a Girls and Boys 3 point contest and Boys dunk contest. Some college coaches and scouts are suppose to be on hand to watch the action and hoping to sign a player or two. There is high school teams from as far away as Stafford and Roanoke VA. We have teams from WV, KY, TN and VA. There is also several local high school teams also playing in the tournament. Here is the team list: Twin Valley - Boys and Girls Castlewood - Boys and Girls VA Magic - Boys Clintwood - Boys JJ Kelly - Boys Powell Valley - Boys Carroll County - Boys Tazewell - Boys Stafford Stars - Boys and Girls Lebanon - Boys VA High - Boys Gate City - Boys Twin Springs - Boys TN Outlaws - Boys Shooting Stars - Girls Graham - Girls Copperheads - Girls Rural Retreat - Girls Haysi - Girls Bristol Crusaders - Girls Lady Chargers - Girls Shelby Valley - Girls Jonesville - Girls Lee - Girls Pound - Girls Honaker - Girls

The 2nd Annual Clinch River Fastpitch One Day Classic will be held on April 3rd at the St. Paul High School field in St. Paul, VA. There will be a 3 game guarantee and a $100 entry fee. Divisions will include: 12U and 14U. To enter or for more information call Kevin at 276-762-0293 or Scott at 276-220-9708. All proceeds will go to the Blue Flames fastpitch team. ASA rules will apply. Teams must provide their own balls.

WE ARE HOSTING A BOYS & GIRLS SENIOR ALL-STAR BASKETBALL GAME. THE GIRLS GAME WILL START AT 6:00 PM ON SATURDAY MARCH 27TH WITH THE BOYS GAME TO FOLLOW. THERE ALSO WILL BE A BOYS AND GIRLS 3 POINT CONTEST AND A BOYS DUNK CONTEST. COACHES WILL GET IN FREE. The 2nd Annual Best of the Best Talent Showcase will will be held March 26th-28th. We are taking for first 42 teams. This tournament is quickly becoming the elite youth basketball tournament in Southwest VA and Northeast TN. We are expecting teams from VA, TN, WV, KY and NC. Local college coaches and scouts may be on hand to watch some of the action. Some player information will be passed on to over 100 college coaches. We are still taking teams in the following divisions: 17U Boys 16U Boys 15U Boys 14U Boys 13U Boys 12U Boys 10U Boys 17U Girls 16U Girls 13U Girls 12U Girls 11U Girls 10U Girls * Location: Castlewood High School in Castlewood, VA * Divisions: 8U-17U Girls and Boys Divisions * 2010 AAU Age Rules Will Be Enforced * We accept all teams: AAU, YBOOA, USSSA, etc * Enter Fee is $100 * 3 Game Guarantee * Team Awards for 1st and 2nd * Contact Wayne Rasnick at 276-762-9421 or Scott Chafin at 276-220-9708 or wrasnick@russell.k12.va.us or castlewoodladydevils@yahoo.com. 　 Registration Deadline: March 22nd 　 Mail Payment to: Castlewood High School/Wayne Rasnick 304 Blue Devil Circle Castlewood, VA 24224