10th Annual City All Star Game at CCSF on Thursday 4/6

[CoachRandal]

The Bay Area Warriors and Golden City will be hosting the 10th Annual City All Star Game on Thursday April 6th at CCSF. The game will again be held in Memory of the late Lincoln Coach Mike Gragnani who passed away in 2010. We will have a Girls' game at 6:00 and the Boys' Game at 7:30. We will also have a 3-point shooting Contest and a Slam Dunk Contest. The Girls 3-point contest will start at 5:30 before the Girls Game. The Boys 3-point contest will be after the Boys Game. The Slam Dunk contest will be before the Boys Game. Please see the rosters of invitees below. Per CIF rules the game is limited to Seniors only. Invitees please confirm with Coach Randy that you can participate. We will provide the players with a t-shirt uniform that they keep and there will be trophies for the contest winners and the game MVP's. The players participate for free but we do charge $5 for admission for fans which covers the cost of the uniforms, trophies, referees and facility. We typically draw a good and lively crowd and the Seniors have a lot of fun. It is a great way for us to bring the San Francisco basketball community together and for the Seniors to play a final fun game to end their high school careers. If you have questions or want to confirm your participation, please contact Coach Randy at 415 418 4568.

Boys All Stars



Niamey Harris, Mission

Jamian Wright, Mission

Jayden Foston, Mission

Tyrese Johnson, Mission

Isaac Finestone, Lowell

Amaan Shaikh, Lowell

Devin Dador, Washington

Surrey Hackett, Washington

Benson Chu, Washington

Dmer Johnson, Lincoln

DJ Manalang, Lincoln

Anton Arellano, Lincoln

Matthew Huang, Lincoln

Sam Minor, Balboa

Moises Sandovil, Riordan

Sean Palaad, Riordan

Daniel Begovich, SI

Arjun Gujral, SI

Nico Maclean-Vernic, SI

Romello Dunbar, SHCP

Ramzi Carter, SHCP

Jake Tulchinsky, University

Gunnar Black, University

Avi Leung, Lick

Chip Thompson, Lick

Izak Sheinfeld-Kandel, Urban

Darna Stewart, Stuart Hall

Jaden Newman, Stuart Hall

Jeremiah Sullivan, Stuart Hall

Owen Hackel, Stuart Hall

Nedu Anigbogu, Gateway

Nick Kossman, Gateway

Emmanuel Nwabueze, International

Drew Okimoto, International

Wayland Leung, Wallenberg

John Fiman, Bay

Ryan Treais, Bay









Girls All Stars (note we will also be adding some Girls All Stars from the PAL)



Iimar'i Thomas, SHCP

Edina Del Rosario, SHCP

Ayzhiana Basallo, SI

Maggie Burke, SI

Rika Baba, Washington

Samantha Lui, Washington

Jessica Nakano, Washington

Monica Tep, Washington

Larissa Wu, Lincoln

Angie Wong, Lincoln

Savanna Andrews, Lincoln

Madison Toy, Lowell

Audrey Ng, Lowell

Erin Li, Lowell

Erin Wilson, Mission

Kaliyah Hopkins, Mission

Alyssa Alvarez, Convent

Gia Monachino, Convent

Ally Arora Convent

Maya Burris, Lick

Zeli Ggrey, Lick

Claire Beckstoffer, Urban

Kaylah Breiz, Urban

Sara Starks, Drew

Scout Lansing, International

Amelia Belote-Broussard, Gateway

Noemi Franco, Gateway

Katie Partington, Bay

K. Bufka, Mercy

M. Jajeh, Mercy

S. Carrosco, Mercy

Jadyn Padrone,ICA

Richelle Matthews, ICA

Esther Liu, Balboa

Desiree Damian, Balboa

Demesha Boxley, Burton

 

[CoachRandal]

Hey we have a great group of players committed to participate including Stars from the WCAL, AAA, BCL and PAL. The game should be very competitive and entertaining. Please come out and support the Class of 2017 in their last High School game in the City

 

[CoachRandal]

Come out and support the Seniors in their last HS game. Should be fun. We have a great Roster of players.

10th Annual City All Star Game

in Memory of Coach Mike Gragnani

April 6, 2017


Girls Game - Red - Coached By Armando Pazos

Iimar'I Thomas - SHCP

Edina Del Rosario - SHCP

Ayzhiana Basallo - St. Ignatius

Erin Wilson - Mission

Kaliyah Hopkins - Mission

Alyssa Alvarez - Convent

Scout Lansing - International

Noemi Franco - Gateway

Alize Chapman - Marshall

Addison Waling - Half Moon Bay

Ally Longaker - Half Moon Bay

Sali Longa - Oceana



Girls Game - White - Coached by Jason Lee of Lincoln

Larissa Wu - Lincoln

Savanna Andrews - Lincoln

Angie Wong - Lincoln

Rika Baba - Washington

Samantha Lui - Washington

Jessica Nakano - Washington

Monica Tep - Washington

Sabrina Tan - Westmoor

Keri La - Oceana

Raichel Tian - Hillsdale

Ani Uikilifi - Capuchino

Audrey Ng - Lowell

Madison Toy - Lowell

 

[OnBall8]

IT, EDR, and Bassallo will dominate if they choose to. Don't know how much defense in played in games like this but you have to try hard to stop them

 

[CoachRandal]

The 10th Annual City All Star Game was a lot of fun for the Class of 2017 and there were a lot of bright stars. We also took time to remember the late Lincoln Coach, Mike Gragnani. The White Team led by the State Champion Mission Bears pulled out a 107 to 106 thriller over Red which was led by a great performance by SHCP point guard Mello Dunbar. In addition to the Mission stars who made big plays down the stretch, White was paced by Surrey Hackett of Wash who hit 7 3-pointers in the game. There were a lot of dunks throughout the game and a lot of back and forth non-stop action. Niamey Harris of Mission was the Game MVP.

The Girls Game was won 92 to 72 by Red but the game was close throughout with the White Team leading in the 2nd half until University of Cincinnati commit IImar'I Thomas (SHCP) took over and dominated down the stretch with help from Ayzhiana Basallo (SI) and Sali Longa (Oceana). IImar'I was the Game MVP

Ayzhiana Basallo of St. Ignatius was the Girls' 3-Point Champion and Daniel Begovich of St. Ignatius won the Boys' 3-Point Contest

Emanuel Nwabueze electrified the crowd and won the Slam Dunk Contest. Emanuel also had some spectacular dunks in the game.

Best of luck to the Class of 2017.

Pictures at www.bayareawarriors.org

 

[colhenrylives]

You may want to double-check the credentials of the lone Hillsdale player. She appears to be one of the Hillsdale seniors who quit the program and their teammates just prior to the ball club's opening CCS playoff game. That incident ranks as, by far, the most egregious in the history of girls' basketball in the PAL dating back 40 years. Rewarding any of those seniors would seem to be a serious mistake.

 

[OnBall8]

Wow.. I forgot about that.. we never heard more did we?? Just checked and you seem to be right. Not on the roster on maxpreps or the school website. She should not have gotten the chance to represent her team or school in an all-star game of any kind. Big time oversight by directors... but i'll ask again, where are the parents in this??

 

[colhenrylives]

The media exhibited little, if any, interest in the story. It's one more example of the lack of strictly local coverage of prep sports in the Bay Area today. The Hillsdale situation, in a previous era, would have been serious news along the Peninsula and in CCS generally. But all of that has changed. And not for the better, at least in this particular case.

 

[colhenrylives]

Combine the Hillsdale debacle with the abrupt January departure of the Kailahi sisters at Menlo-Atherton and it would not be out of bounds to suggest that the 2017 PAL girls' basketball season was about as tumultuous and unhappy as any in the league's long history. Those M-A sisters would have made a huge difference in the Bears' performance in the NorCal Division I playoffs during which they badly flamed out at home in a Round 2 game vs. Folsom. All in all, 2017 was a PAL season to forget.

 

[SouthBayHoopFan]

If no details are known, how are you so sure the Hillsdale players were not justified in leaving the team? Beyond that, I doubt this event is CIF sanctionaed, so there's really no connection between the players and the school they previously attended.

 

[OnBall8]

If they were so just, wouldnt you think the school or parents would have come out and said so?? I'm sorry but in my mind quitting the week before the playoffs is cause for guilty until proven innocent. The timing is too suspect. If this was a season long problem, then why wait that long to pull the plug? And if was a single event that took place that was so bad, then maybe the coach should have been canned. Sorry, but clear the air or many will assume the worst.

Obviously its not sanctioned, its a glorified open gym, but being invited is presumed to be in connection to one's performance during the season for a specific school, hence why the schools were listed next to the names and I'm sure was announced during introductions. I was not suggesting that the school or CIF could/should have done anything about it, but the organizers could have.

 

[colhenrylives]

Regarding the Hillsdale situation, the decision by those seniors not to play in their team's opening CCS game did a major disservice to their teammates. It forced the coaches, admittedly rather inexperienced but certainly well-meaning, to use untested, inadequate, ill-prepared and overmatched JV kids in their place. At home, Hillsdale then was beaten by a very mediocre Sobrato team. Those youngsters were placed in an untenable situation. It was unfair to those kids. They were basically humiliated in the second half. It wasn't pretty by any stretch of the imagination. To make it worse, those seniors sat in the Hillsdale bleachers and watched the mess unfold. It was unprecedented. And, frankly, outrageous to behold.

 

[SouthBayHoopFan]

But why did they choose to leave the team? They must have had a reason, so what was it?

 

[colhenrylives]

Stories vary. But this one seems to be valid: The players, unhappy with their new coaches, wanted a meeting with them as the season drew to a close. The coaches said no. The players were then given a choice, stay on the team and do what they were told or leave. They chose to bail. They left their mates in a no-win lurch. Selfish. Short-sighted. And, as noted above, their parents apparently went along with it.

 

[SouthBayHoopFan]

Sounds like maybe the coaches misunderestimated.

 

[colhenrylives]

Sounds like maybe the coaches misunderestimated.

Or, maybe, they were just fed up with the whining and second-guessing, the same sort of immature behavior by this group that was a factor in the previous coach's departure.

 

[ClayK]

I don't know the situation, but it doesn't seem to be asking too much to have a meeting withe players and parents if there's a lot of unhappiness. Not being willing to meet sends me the message, right or wrong, that the coaches were too rigid and didn't want to communicate.

Again, I don't know, but shouldn't the adults be willing to listen?