Catfish Festival to Expand All Star Games

[Rebel Yeller]

The Evadale Catfish Festival will expand the number of All Star Basketball games that they hold during the festival to give more players one last opportunity to hit the hardwood!

This year there will be four games two girls and two guys all on May 8th
Game #1 @ 11 AM featuring 3A/2A Girls
Game #2 @ 1 PM featuring 3A/2A Boys
Game #3 @ 3 PM featuring 1A/2A Girls
Game #4 @ 5 PM featuring 1A/2A Boys

The reason that the teams will be mixed is due to not knowing just how many athletes will respond to the invitation to take part in the games.

Nomination forms will be sent to area coaches asking for their nominees of senior players that they believe are deserving of being an all star in about a week. Once the nominations have been received then players will be contacted by the festival and arrangements will be made for a couple of practices for each team.

The games will be played in the gym at Evadale and one admission will be good for all four games. The proceeds from the games will go towards the King & Queen Scholarship fund.

The festival is also still seeking sponsors for the games and can be contacted at 409 276-1470 to help put on this very special event.

Just thought that the SETX Sports family would like to know that Evadale is doing what we can to promote basketball in our area and to highlight some great players while doing what we can to help with the continued education of our student right here at home.

[Rebel Yeller]

Now that the season is over with the State championship games today, an updates on the All-Star games. The 1A letters to coaches went out on Friday and the 2A & 3A letters will go out by mid week.

Coaches will nominate seniors that will be invited to participate and I hope all the coaches that receive the nomination forms will return them as soon as possible so the invitations can be made. If any one know's of a business that would like to help sponsor this event that looks to be a showcase event for high school basketball you can send me a PM an I will get you in touch with the right people.

Hope every who loves basketball will keep May 8th clear on their calendar for four games with some of the best talent from SETX being a part of the games, and oh course you can enjoy the Catfish Festival too!