1A Star Game Announced

[Rebel Yeller]

The Evadale Catfish Festival that it is bringing back the Catfish Classic All Star games.

The games will be played on Saturday, May 9th at 3:30 PM for the girls and 5 PM for the boys. Students are now being invited from most of the 1A schools in southeast Texas to participate.

Most of these senior players have faced these same players since they were in Little Dribblers and for once some of them will have the chance to play with some of those opponents while it will be the same as they face off as foes once again.

The games will be played in the recently restored gym on the Evadale campus and players their family and friends are invited to come to the festival or stay at they festival for a great time on May 9th.

There are lots more things to get excited about at the Evadlae Catfish Festival so visit their website www.catfishfestival.net for additional info and activities.

[Guest THE SCOUTER]

Fried catfish and basketball, sounds good to me.

[Rebel Yeller]

Once all the players are confirmed the rosters will be posted.

More leter!

[24 over par]

sounds interesting

[BigTimePlayer]

How is the roster put together who choses the players and coaches?

[Rebel Yeller]

How is the roster put together who choses the players and coaches?

The festival contacts coaches who nominate up to three players, two get invtations one is an alternate in case one of the first two nominees declines the invitation.

The festival contacts the players and invites them to play. They can accept or decline.

The coaches are more like managers making sure that players are substituted in and out to get everyone equal playing time or as close to it as possible. They are invited by the festival to be on the sidelines.

These games were played two years ago and were very very recieved. The festival did not do the games last year, but several coaches asked if the games could be brought back and the festival committee was able to get it together.

This might not be an All Star event in the eyes of some, but for players at the 1A level it is about as close as some of them will ever have the opportunity to play. The Catfish Festival believes that these players many of which have battled each other on courts from the time they were in grade school are some of the most talented players anywhere and they just wanted to get them, their parents and the schools that they played for one last opportunity to watch them in action.

[BigTimePlayer]

I think that this is a great idea a hope that it continues to be a tradition. A senior from my school played his last actual basketball game their and he said it was a blast to play with some of the other top player in the district on his team.

[Rebel Yeller]

I think that this is a great idea a hope that it continues to be a tradition. A senior from my school played his last actual basketball game their and he said it was a blast to play with some of the other top player in the district on his team.

Glad to hear it BigTimePlayer

I can't tell you now but we are working on something else that we think will be big too.

The Evadale Catfish Festival is making lots of moves to really become a well rounded festival that has something for just about everyone and every fan. We love to put this on and we love to give props to great kids (from Evadale and surrounding schools), great civic, community and church groups and a great community in a great area.

Hope to see you at the games and hanging around the Catfish Festival. I assure you and everyone else they won't be disappointed if they come out to Evadale and join us.