With Christmas quickly

approaching, the trees, the lights and ornaments start going up. But there is

another thing that is coming as well. Basketball tournaments. That has become

the signature of the holiday season, the pre-Christmas and post-Christmas

tournaments.

           

Two of the better tournaments that are being hosted in the South Florida

are the Zoned Out Shootout being held at American High School

located at 18350 NW 67^th Avenue from December 18-20, 2003, and The

Rock Holiday Classic being hosted at North Broward Prep at 7600 Lyons

Road in Coconut Creek from December 19-23, 2003.

           

The Zoned Out Shootout has a field of eight that includes

some of the best teams in Florida, including state contenders Pahokee and Key

West and out-of-state team Kennett from the Philadelphia area. Kennett won the

Class 3A state championship in Pennsylvania just two years ago. The rest of the

field includes some of the better teams out of Miami-Dade, including American,

which is the defending county champion, and advanced to the Elite Eight last

season before being knocked out by eventual state champion, Dillard, North Miami

Beach, Southridge, South Dade and Calusa Prep.

           

The first round games are set and are being played on Thursday, December

18.

           

          

           

           

           

The games begin on Friday at 4:30pm and at 2pm on Saturday with the

championship game being held at 8:00pm.

           

The cost for admission is $7 per day. You can check out four great games

of basketball each day. A three-day pass is only $17. You can check out 12 great

games of basketball throughout the weekend.

           

Some of the featured players in the tournament includes Antonio Wilson

and Charles Bouie from Pahokee, Eric Brown from Key West, Jamari Maduro and

Tremayne Russell from South Dade, Dynin Daniels from Southridge Gerrysen

Monestime from North Miami Beach and Dennys Clemente from Calusa Prep.

           

For more information, please call Rudy Rodriguez-Chomat at 786-295-3287

or go to www.inthezonemag.com. Click

on the Zoned Out Shootout logo on the bottom left hand side to get the

tournament bracket, tournament hotel information and more.

         

  The Rock Holiday Classic features a

great field of teams that includes North Broward Prep, one of the best Class 3A

teams in the state and probably the best team in Broward County, Perry County

Central, a top rated team from Kentucky and more.

           

This tournament has a field of 16 and begins play on Friday with games

being played at North Broward Prep’s main campus on Lyons Road, North Broward

Prep’s Coral Springs campus and Westminster Academy.

           

There are teams coming down to Broward County from all over the country

including Kentucky, New York, Utah, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and of course,

Florida.

           

First round games are set and are as follows: (CC)=Coconut Creek Campus,

(CS)=Coral Springs Campus, (WA)=Westminster Academy

The games on Saturday, Monday and

Tuesday will all be played at the North Broward Prep Coconut Creek Campus. Games

start on Saturday at 10am and run until 11pm, and Monday being at 9am and run

until 9:30pm. Tuesday’s games are a little more spread out with the 7^th

Place Game being held at 10:30am, the 5^th Place Game being held at

1:30pm, the 3^rd Place Game being held at 5:00pm and the Championship

Game being held at 8:00pm.

For more information, call North

Broward Prep’s Sports Information Director Pat Chichester at 954-494-2552