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The 14-year-old boys basketball team from Warm Springs won jackets and plaques
after winning the B.A.A.D. Tournament in Mission March 23-24. (See story below.)
The team includes (from left) Titus Kalama, Coach Foster Kalama, Simeon Kalama,
Davis Sohappy, Richard Harrington, Arthur Mitchell, LaRon Katchia, Lawrence Shike,
Jr., Albert Kalama, Jr., Robert Main, Jr., Sean Harrington, and Chance Squiemphen. Not
pictured is assistant coach Albert Charlie.
Another Warm Springs team Foster Kalama coached won the Eighth Grade
Tournament at LaPine High School earlier March 3-4. That team included, front row, '
from left, Shike, Mitchell, Albert Kalama, Jr., Tann'er'Yallup, Emerson Culpus, Jr., (back
row, from left) Foster Kalama, Terrance Wolf, Katchia, Stephon Sutterlee, Victor
Switzler, Jr., Stanley Simtustus, Jr., and assistant coach Simeon Simtustus.
Teams win at tourneys
By Brian Mortensen
Spijay Tymoo
With balanced scoring and a
collective heart of sportsman
ship, a team of 14-year-olds
from Warm Springs, with inter
changing members, won two
junior-high-age boys basketball
tournaments in March.
The Warm Springs team,
coached by Foster Kalama and
featuring four players who
played in both tournaments,
won its age group at the LaPine
Tournament, March 4-5, and
then won its age division of the
B.A.A.D. (Basketball Against
Alcohol and Drugs) Tourna
ment at Nixyaawii School on
the Umatilla Indian Reservation
in Mission March 23-24.
The team won three games
at each of the eight-team tour
naments, and both times, it man
aged to win the tournament
championship by winning close
games.
In the LaPine Tournament,
the Warm Springs team won by
six points over a Bend-area
team in overtime. Warm
Springs won despite having
three players foul out, but,
Kalama said, it allowed three
fresh players off the bench to
come in and make up for the
starters' absence.
"A lot of people shook my
hand and said this was a team
to beat " he said. "One of the
guys on their team had to get
his hair cut. They thought a win
was in the bag."
Last year, a team from
Warm Springs, with a different
set of players but coached by
Kalama, finished second in the
14-year-old division at the
LaPine Tournament.
At the B.A.A.D. Tournament,
the Warm Spring? team first met
a team from Simnasho in the
first round and won, then beat
a team from the Umatilla tribe
by nearly 20 points.
Warm Springs met Omak,
Wash., in the championship
game. Kalama said Omak had
a solid team and stayed ahead
of his team through almost the
entire game. Omak led by as
many as 12 before Warm
Springs started making a second-half
comeback. Warm
Springs never had the lead,
though, until the very end.
"We had our last time out and
we wanted to get the ball to
Robert Main Jr., who we call
'Bug,'" Kalama said. "So with
4.5 seconds left, Simeon Kalama
brought the ball into Albert, who
passed it to Bug. Bug jumped
way up in the air and he hit a
three-pointer and we won by
one point."
Main was named Most Valu
able Player for that tournament,
and three of Warm Springs'
posts, LaRon Katchia, Chance
Squiemphen, and Richard
Harrington, earned gym bags as
All-Tournament selections, in
addition to the plaques and jack
ets they earned for winning the
tournament.
They had won medals at the
LaPine Tournament.
Before the B.A.A.D. Tourna
ment, the Warm Springs team
went through a class on drugs
and alcohol and the players each
received T-shirts.
"Both teams were really
great," said Kalama, a resource
officer at Madras High School.
"They got the opportunity to talk
about drugs and alcohol, and got
something out of the tourna
ment other than basketball."
The B.A.A.D. Tournament
was also special for Kalama,
personally, as he had the oppor
tunity to honor his mother,
Edith, who recently passed away.
"I put my championship plaque
on my Mom's grave," he said.
Kalama said his team was as
good off the court as on at both
tournaments
"There was really great
sportsmanship on the part of the
boys," he said. "They really
worked hard at it."
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