SEATTLE, WA - 5/4/06
WVBA 18-Black, 18-Red, 17-Black and 14-Black will compete in the Regional Championship tournament for their age group this weekend at various sites in the south Puget Sound.

WVBA 18-Black will begin play on Saturday as the #1 overall seed at Fife High School. 18-Red will start at Columbia Junior High School not far away.

WVBA 17-Black will play at Washington High School in Tacoma and 14-Black will play at Auburn-Mountainview High School.

Format will be to play through round 1 pools and two matches of round 2 pools on Saturday. Teams will finish round 2 pool play before being seeded into single-elimination brackets for Sunday afternoon.

Please come out and support the teams if you can.

Far Westerns JO Qualifier
All eight Academy teams returned from Reno where they had mixed results. WVBA 18-Black finished 19th in the 18 Open Division. 18-Red finished 42nd in the 18 Club Division.

17-Black finished 15th in the 17 Open Division while 16-Red finished 82nd in 16 Club Division.

16-Black and 15-Black both had tough draws in their round 2 pools by drawing the eventual 1st and 2nd place finishers. 16-Black finished 21st in 16 Open. 15-Black finished a club-high 11th place in 15 Open.

14-Black finished 23rd in 14 Open and 13-Black finished 15th in the 13 Club Division.

Congratulations to all teams on some very respectable performances during that 3-day qualifier.