Portsmouth Trojans at Disney World

[Coach Rhea]

The Portsmouth Trojans are participating in a KSA tournament at Disney World. Our first game has been moved to Tuesday around 12:00 against Pace High School from Florida. We are currently waiting to board our flight in Columbus, but the weather is causing delays. I will post after our games and give statistics. If anyone has questions or would like more information please don't hesitate to ask. Thank you for all your support.

Coach Rhea

[danicalifornia]

Awesome trip. Get 3 good games in and get to visit Disney World, should be a great time for all. Good Luck!

[biggdowgg]

hope you all have a safe flight, the kids have to be really exited about this trip, I bet for most of the the plane ride alone is worth the trip.....

look forward to updates.

[oldtrojan]

An excellent opportunity for the Trojans. enjoy Disney and the great basketball that will be played.

GOOD LUCK TROJANS!

[jgordon0315]

Sweet!!

[ohbuckeye2]

Good luck Trojans and have a great time.

[Coach Rhea]

We have landed safely in Orlando. Headed to Disney All Star Resort for some rest and relaxation.

[ssusoccer]

Good luck and have fun Coach Rhea.

[Moses Guthrie]

Coach Rhea
Visit the GIANT basketball area at All Star Resort.. Bet you can't make it on the 30 ft high rim...!!

[trojandave]

Coach: I'm glad you all landed safely in Orlando......looking forward for the updates.......I hope you have a great time and a safe trip back.........I'm sure the kids are excited about the competition........I know they will be physically pushed to the limit with 3 games in 3 days......but they will come back a better team for it.

GO TROJANS!!

[trojandave]

Here is what Pace HS, FL (5A) has done so far:

Overall Record: 4-6

At Pensacola Washington HS.....L 47-56
At Pensacola Washington HS.....L 47-54
At Pensacola Catholic HS..........L 30-35
At Jay HS............................W 63-24
Pine Forest HS......................W 63-60
Tate HS..............................W 68-56
Pensacola HS........................W 59-54
At Navarre HS.......................L 49-50
Escambia HS.........................L 46-67
At Gulf Breeze HS...................L 56-57

Roster and Stats for leading scorers not available on Max Preps.

[Coach Rhea]

Once team got settled in last night we boarded a bus around 8:30 and went to Jostens Center, which is right next to the Atlanta Braves spring training facility, for practice and shoot around. After shoot around we headed back to rooms for video games and lights out.

Team just finished eating breakfast and we are going over to watch Los Alamitos, Calif., which is the team we could play tomorrow morning. After the game the team is headed to Universal Studios for a day of roller coasters. The 30 foot rim at Disney's All Star resort is right outside our door, from the third floor balcony it's nothing but a free throw.

[trojandave]

Here is what Los Alamitos, CA has done so far:

Overall record: 7-4

San Bernardino, CA.....L 65-67
Norwalk, CA..............W 64-59
North (Torrance).......W 71-63
La Habra..................W 83-65
North (Torrance).......L 54-65
San Juan Hills...........W 50-45
Esperanza................W 57-51
Gahr.......................W 58-52
Capistrano Valley.......L 55-58
Ayala......................W 55-52
Aliso Nievel...............L 49-51

Their roster features 6-7, 6-7, 6-5, 6-4, 6-4, 6-3........with a total of 5 seniors.......the leading scorers are Camryn Crocker, 6-3, at 23.8 PPG, while Ryan Hurst, 6-4, 270, is next at 12.2 PPG.

[trojandave]

Here is what Melbourne, FL (5A) has done so far:

Overall record: 4-2

Oak Ridge........W 58-48
At Merritt Island....L 65-74
Eau Gallie.........W 53-37
At Heritage.......L 61-83
At Satellite.......W 64-48
Rockledge.........W 60-53

Their roster features only 1 player taller than 6-4, and he is a 6-6 sophomore.......they do have 8 seniors on the team. Stats for leading scorers were not available on Max Preps.

Unless the bracket has changed, these teams are in the top half of Portsmouth's bracket.......teams in the other bracket are Tottenville, NY, Freedom, FL, Spanish River, FL, and James Garfield, CA.

[ManitouDan]

how do HS teams fund trips that require 20 or so airline tickets, 5 nights hotels, 3 meals a day etc etc ? Got to cost 25-35 K . not picking out PHS because lots of schools do this --how is it appropriated ?

[biggdowgg]

Coach Collins and his staff have been doing fundraisers since last year,the latest was the JV tournament right befor Christmas

[Coach Rhea]

The Trojans are returning from Universal Studios and preparing for Pace. Melbourne Fl. Had to drop out of our bracket due to a team situation. (Something happened to a player or a parent of a player before they arrived at the tournament.) They have been replaced by a Treasure Coast High School out of Florida. Treasure Coast will play Los Alamitos at 12:15 tomorrow. The winners and losers of our game and the L.A. vs. T.C. play each other on Wednesday morning. This tournament is run so well it's unbelivable. They are able to bring teams in at the last minute and move teams around to fulfill the three game guarantee.

Tobias I'm not sure about radio feeds on the Internet, but I do know there are no television broadcast. We are able to watch them on closed circuit and they do a sportscenter type broadcast of daily highlights. I will check on radio feed tomorrow before our game.

About time for lights out, breakfast at 8:30, and game at 12:45.

Coach Rhea

[Coach Rhea]

8:30 wake up call, the Trojans went to eat breakfast, and just returned to their rooms. We will be getting dressed for the game here at the hotel and then head over to the Josten's Center. Tip-off time is 12:15. I will check on radio feed when I get over there.

[trojandave]

Thanks, Coach for the updates.......I looked up Treasure Coast on Max Preps........there is no record listed for the team........it is a Christian Academy which is classified in the Freelance Division of Florida.......many of the schools in that division are Christian Academies.

I hope our kids play a good game and stay injury free........GO TROJANS!!

[Coach Rhea]

It's basketball thirty!! We are 1:25 from starting warm-ups.