WAYNE PAL MAKE STATEMENT IN GYM RATS CHALLENGE!

Albany,N.Y………. With a field of 104 top 17u AAU teams in the Gym Rats Challenge in Albany,New York, Wayne Pal 17u team was impressive in the Memorial Weekend event! Teams such as the Long Island Lightning, N.Y Gauchos, Mass Premier Elite and City Rocks were part of the Tournament! Wayne PAL, Coached by Dan Halewicz and Tony Hargraves won 7 games in 2 days to reach the Gym Rats Challenge final! Wayne won their Pool play by defeating the Newburgh Panthers( 64-30), the LL Running Rebels( 56-36) and the Cortland Basketball Club( 73-45) to clinch a spot in the Championship bracket! Seeded 3rd in the bracket Wayne PAL defeated Brampton Elite from Canada 43-33! The next contest was against the Renegades where they won a close one 52-50! In the Semi-finals Wayne met up with House Of Sports Elite and pulled out a 46-42 win! Wayne PAL did a great job reaching the championship game but came up short against the Jersey Shore Warriors, a highly respected AAU program from South Jersey!The Wayne PAL team consisted of Lavrone Green- Reels, Sean McKinless, Koree Hargraves, Tom Amour, Dino Braduric,Shawn Ulrich, Nile Godfrey and Chris Downing! Coach Hargraves was very happy with his teams play! ” We have worked hard to reach the place we are at right now. It was a good feeling to play a team as reputable as the Jersey Shore Warriors in the championship. It just shows that sometimes hard work and a little luck pays off. And I appreciate the way our kids performed and  hope we can continue for the next couple of months and give these the opportunity for college coaches to know about them and the Wayne PAL Wolfpack.” Coach Halewicz said” I’m extremely proud of the team’s performance this weekend. Only a couple of our players have played together in the past, whether that be in highschool basketball or past AAU basketball, so we had som egrowing pains and chemistry issues to work out early on, but every weekend since March showed  improvement and now we are firing off together on all cylinders.I am very much looking forward to coaching this team through June and July, winning games and most importantly putting these kids in front of college coaches playing their best basketball”!!!