This Saturday and Sunday Starr Athletics out of Pensacola,
Florida will be hosting the Forgotten Coast Classic 2016, an exciting and
action packed youth basketball tournament in Apalachicola. Games will be played
simultaneously throughout the weekend at both the City of Apalachicola Youth
Center (The Matchbox) and at the Apalachicola Bay Charter School gymnasium (ABC
School).
Teams from as far away as Alabama and Georgia along with
Florida teams from Port St. Joe, Bay County, Gadsden County, Pensacola, and the
Apalachicola Sharks will be participating in the tournament. Tip-off time will promptly commence at 9:00
a.m. on Saturday, July 23rd at both locations and will conclude on Sunday, July
24th with the semi-final and the championship games also played at both
locations.
Each of the Apalachicola Sharks teams will play two games on
Saturday. The Sharks Girls team will
play at 9:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m., both games will be played at the ABC School.
The Sharks 11 and Under Boys will play at 9:00 a.m. and at 5:00 p.m. at The
Matchbox. The 14 and Under Boys will take to the court at 10:00 a.m. and 2:00
p.m. at the ABC School and the Sharks High School Boys team will play at 12:00
p.m. at The Matchbox and 3:00 p.m. at the ABC School.
Starr Athletics, LLC, is a small company in the radio
broadcasting stations industry that also host competitive basketball
tournaments throughout the Southeast in the AAU, YBOA, high school and
recreation league divisions. The company has hosted such tournaments in New
Orleans, Atlanta, Mobile, Panama City, Pensacola and now Apalachicola thanks to
the collaborative efforts of Helen Willis-Escobar, Manager of The Matchbox and
Allyson Speed, an Apalachicola native and resident of Philadelphia.
The daily gate fee to enter the tournament is $10 and a weekend
pass only $18. For kids 7-12 the fee is $6, and kids 6 and Under can get in
free.
Click below to access the online tournament brackets,
complete with participating teams, age groups, times and locations.
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