Forest Lake's Kyle Soria (4) archs a shot up and over Magnolia's Spencer Wirth in a Nevada County Athletic League 8th grade first round tournament game played on Wedensday. Magnolia took a 45-36 win but NCAL officials cancelled the remainder of the tournament because of inclement weather which hit the Grass Valley area Friday and Saturday.

Feb. 20, 2011

Weather wins out in NCAL Tourney

The basketball gods weren't shining on Nevada County Athletic League boys teams this past weekend.

With 22 large and small school 8th and 7th grade teams paired up for the NCAL's season ending tournament, inclement weather - which pounded the Grass Valley-Nevada City area from Thursday thru Saturday - won out and forced tournament officials to cancel the 2011 tourney on Saturday morning.

The tournament was able to get off the ground on Wednesday afternoon as first round home site games were able to be played.

However, with school cancelled at Nevada Union High on both Thursday and Friday, havoc prevailed with the rescheduling of the tournament. A contingency tourney schedule was put into place for both gyms at NU on Saturday but a late arriving storm which hit the local area on Saturday morning forced the tournament to be derailed.

"It was a matter of safety for the teams trying to get here," said Dan Murphey of the NU boys basketball staff who was helping coordinate the touenament. "It's too bad that we had to cancel, I know a lot of players were looking forward to it."

As far as the NCAL regular season went, Weimar Hills (10-2) slipped past Seven Hills (9-3) to win the 8th grade league title while Magnolia and Union Hill, both 11-1, shared the 7th grade crown.

Here's the final league standings for each division:

8th Grade

                      W  L

Weimar Hills  10    2

Seven Hills      9    3

Magnolia         8    4

Gilmore           7    4

Forest Lake     5     6

Union Hill        2    10

P. Valley        0    12

7th Grade       W    L

Magnolia        11    1

Union Hill       11    1

Seven Hills       7    5

Weimar Hills    6     7

Forest Lake     4     7

Gilmore           2     10

P. Valley         0    12

Here's reported tournament and regular season games from the last week of play:

Seven Hills 56 Pleasant Valley 17 - In a first round 8th grade tournament game Wednesday, Michael Quinn scored 13 points and Max Bishop and Trevor Humphreys both added 11 each as the Raiders turned back the Vikings. Seven Hills finished the season with a fine record of 14-3.

Magnolia 45 Forest Lake 36 - Balanced scoring from John Voter, Nick Mansuetti, Spencer Wirth and Wyatt Mizell lifted the Rattlers past the Falcons in the first round tournament game played Wedensday at Magnolia. Magnolia completed the year with a record of 13-6.

Gilmore 7th 38 Seven Hills 36 - The 7th grade Bombers rose up from the No. 6 tournament seed to upend the No. 3 Raiders on their homecourt.

Weimar Hills 7th 37 Forest Lake 25 - In another first round 7th grade tournament game, Weimar Hills followed 15 points from Jason Dougherty and nine by Kyle Detweiler to down the Falcons.

Seven Hills 38 Union Hill 26 - In a closing 8th grade regular season contest, Trevor Humphreys scored 17 points and Ben Beltran added 10 for the Raiders. Christian Straub tallied 13 and Robbie Angove had 10 for the Bearcats.