Celtics T.E.A.M. Pounds Owasso for MLK Championship!

The six-man junior Celtics swept through the Hardwood Classic's Martin Luther King tournament this weekend culminating with a 65-37 throttling of the Owasso Rams at the East Central High School gym.

The acronym T-E-A-M has been said to mean Together Everyone Achieves More and the six players who donned the CELTIC green jerseys bought into TEAM this weekend. Three players making their first appearance as CELTICS (C.J. Sidorakis, Cale Hammond & Chaquelle Quinn) joined three Celtic veterans (Brock Morton, Jarred Wise & Price Pinkerton) and the combination marched undefeated through the tournament.

At times it looked like the group had been playing together for years. With Wise dominating the backboards triggering numerous fast breaks that C.J., Price and Brock finished off with regularity, the Celtics took control early in the Championship game and never allowed the Rams to get back into the game. Cale added three 3-pointers, and Chaquelle continued to improve while picking up some nice baskets and battling hard on the boards. Price and C.J. used their spectacular body control over and over on knifing drives to the hole. They seemed to hang forever in the air while making small adjustments to "will" the ball into the basket. Those two and Brock added to Cale's three pointers with many of their own to make it an all around T.E.A.M. victory.

Unselfishness and quality ball movement repeatedly opened up wide open shots and the CELTICS converted a high percentage of 3 pt. shots.

At different times, C.J., Price and Brock supported Jarred in the "battle for boards" and Chaq and Cale snared several of their own. Overall defensive effort and "help" by the unit on the floor kept the Rams at bay as the Celtics opened up a 30 point first half lead and never looked back.

It was a wonderful thing to watch.