SEA Varsity Red Basketball Outstanding Progress

By Austin Macha

SEA Varsity Red is considered the top 7th and 8th grade basketball team in all of Wilmington, and quite frankly they are. St. Ed’s always seems to find a way to win, and they showed that in the St. John the Beloved tournament. Down 9 with about 5 minutes to go in the 4th quarter, starting PG Michael Wallace hits a 3 pointer a few feet short from half court. The Lancers force a turnover on the other end and before they know it, SEA brought it back with in 2 points. 5 seconds to go Wallace penetrates the lane dishes it to starting G Austin Macha, F Will Lock makes a beautiful cut to the basket and scores. Lock sends the game into OT, 38-38. St. Edmonds Lancers went on the beat their long time rival St. John the Beloved in an OT thriller.

Varsity Red has won there past 2 tournaments and haven’t lost a game in more than a month. Counting all the tournaments, scrimmages, and league games Varsity Red is about 23-5. They have high expectations for the future. The CYO playoffs and the Salesianum invitational is coming up and Coach Bubba is eager for a 2 peat in both of those upcoming events.

I caught starting PF Dominic Marra in the halls he said “If our team plays up to potential and all 5 starters are on there game, we can blow out any team.”

We hope to see success in this team in the future. Good luck Varsity Red.

SEA Basketball Teams Finding Success

We talked to Mr. Holsten about the basketball teams at SEA and so far our teams are playing very well. Overall here are the records of each team:

3-4 grade Red 0-7
3-4 grade Gray 4-4

JV Red 4-2
JV Gray 6-0
JV Black 5-2
JV White 2-4

Varsity Black 7-1
Varsity Red 10-1
Varsity Gray 6-2
Varsity White 5-2

Of all the SEA school basketball teams, our record is 46 wins and 25 loses.

JV Black Basketball team

Max Krinsky. Our JV Black Basketball team is looking pretty good so far. We are all fast, but I think we are most about defense so far. Everyone can steal pretty well and we are aggressive. We have a couple of players that can work on their shot but it’s looking like we could make a really good team. In our practices we mostly work on defense but then we will make a lay-up line and practice our lay-ups and cutting. When we work on defense we start the practice with shuffles across the court in a diagonal direction.Our teams record so far is 6-3.Our last game is this Saturday at vs Saint Mary Madeline at 2:15 in the field house.