The road to championship as seen by parents at home (via Facebook)......
About to ship-out to Okinawa, missing you Drew!
#FinalFarEast #Vanguardbasketball — with Robert Nichols and 9 others.
#FinalFarEast #Vanguardbasketball — with Robert Nichols and 9 others.
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10 strong - Okinawa, Japan — with Dylan Medlin, Tj Hardeman Jr, Garrett Henderson, Toby Lim, Jason Rafael Ishak, Joshua Manthe, Marco Guzman, Nick Dalafu, Mark Lovatt and Grady Fleming. |
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You would have been proud of your boys. It was a hard first game , but they were able to pull it off.
We are on our way to play Yokota another team in pool play. If we win this morning, we don't play until tomorrow.
No injuries to report.
Thanks to the Lim family for dinner at the Mac Grill.
We are on our way to play Yokota another team in pool play. If we win this morning, we don't play until tomorrow.
No injuries to report.
Thanks to the Lim family for dinner at the Mac Grill.
Boys beat Guam High 49-25. Game against AS I at 10. Deals about game later.
I think "Deals about game later" was an auto spell typo on his phone/mini pad. That's probably intended to be more like "details"...
Nick Dalafu won the Free throw competition. 30 shots in a row. Never missed.
Tj Hardeman Jr won the three point competition. Back to back to back champion.
Proud of them.
Tj Hardeman Jr won the three point competition. Back to back to back champion.
Proud of them.
Morning parents. We are on our way to play against Asij at 10 o'clock today. They are the defending champions.
The boys have done amazing in this tournament so far. I have enjoyed so much for watching them play with all heart. You would be proud of them. Please pray as we play this morning and this evening. Two more wins gets us into the championship.
The bus will be here at any minute now so will sign off. Go Vanguards.
The boys have done amazing in this tournament so far. I have enjoyed so much for watching them play with all heart. You would be proud of them. Please pray as we play this morning and this evening. Two more wins gets us into the championship.
The bus will be here at any minute now so will sign off. Go Vanguards.
~ "Just in...64-53 Faith Vanguards Men win in day 3 at the FE BB Tournament in Okinawa, Japan!" - Robin Dearstone Hardeman
do we know yet what time the next game is?
Way to go guys! Going to the finals!
Finals!!!!! We just won 58-52!
From Todd...there were 25 3pt shots made in the game 15 by Faith. They are saying it is a tournament record. We play Kadena at 530.
just a little update:
The boys are playing great. It has been a whirlwind the last three days. Up's and Downs. Cold showers, sleeping on chairs, our bus forgetting to pick us up at the church, waking up at 5:30am to play this great game ... all this = PRICELESS
The CHAMPIONSHIP GAME is tonight at 5:30pm vs. the home team Kubasaki. Please pray for strength for the 10 Strong! Praise the Lord no injuries to report. I am super proud of how the players are representing Christ...See more
The boys are playing great. It has been a whirlwind the last three days. Up's and Downs. Cold showers, sleeping on chairs, our bus forgetting to pick us up at the church, waking up at 5:30am to play this great game ... all this = PRICELESS
The CHAMPIONSHIP GAME is tonight at 5:30pm vs. the home team Kubasaki. Please pray for strength for the 10 Strong! Praise the Lord no injuries to report. I am super proud of how the players are representing Christ...See more
What an honor to coach this amazing team. TEN STRONG has been our theme through out this year. I am so proud of how they were able to work together on and off the court.
Wish you were all here to celebrate the victory. Let's celebrate this weekend. Any thoughts on a place? Maybe Saturday night? Let me know if you are all open to a CELEBRATION CHAMPIONSHIP PARTY.
We are leaving Kadena Air Force base shortly. Should arrive in Manila at 8 this evening.
Thank you again for all your prayers and support.
For His Glory!
Wish you were all here to celebrate the victory. Let's celebrate this weekend. Any thoughts on a place? Maybe Saturday night? Let me know if you are all open to a CELEBRATION CHAMPIONSHIP PARTY.
We are leaving Kadena Air Force base shortly. Should arrive in Manila at 8 this evening.
Thank you again for all your prayers and support.
For His Glory!
The article that makes us all proud...
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| Marco (front), Coach Dalafu, Jason Ishak, Toby Lim, Mark Lovett, Nick Dalafu, Grady Fleming, Garrett Henderson (front), TJ Hardeman (above Garett), Coach Manthe, Dylan Medlin, Coach Robby Nichols ('90 alumni) |
Stars and Stripes
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Published: February 20, 2014
CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa – It was just a matter of time.
Faith Academy’s boys basketball team lived by the three-point goal all week during the Far East High School Division I Tournament, setting a single-game record with 15 on Tuesday.
But early in Thursday’s final at Kubasaki, it appeared as if the Vanguards might die by the three. They hit only two in the first two periods and trailed by as many as eight points to the Dragons.
But Jason Ishak and Nick Dalafu each offered an indication just before halftime, hitting two threes to give Faith the lead for good 31-27.
Then senior T.J. Hardeman, named the tournament MVP, took over. He hit six threes and the Vanguards totaled 12 from long distance in the second half and Faith pulled away for a 77-52 victory and the fourth D-I title in school history.
“I knew T.J. was off for the first quarter, but we’ve never seen T.J. off for a whole game,” Vanguards coach Robby Nichols said.
“We told them at halftime, it’s going to come, it’s going to fall in the second half. We just said keep shooting, keep working the offense. And where he’s strong is his defense. And that leads to his offense.”
Faith took control of the boards, took advantage of turnovers and hit a seemingly endless rain of baskets from downtown.
“All that practice I put in, all those hours shooting with my dad, I knew it was going to come,” said T.J. of his father Todd Hardeman, Faith Class of ’82, who won a D-I title playing for his father, then-coach Tine Hardeman.
“I just had to trust my shot, my practice and that I’d get it going.”
All told, Faith hit 12 second-half threes. Hardeman – with his father and grandfather in the audience – had 19 of his 22 points in the second half and hit six threes. Mark Lovatt had 12 of his 15 in the half and Dalafu finished with four threes and 23 points.
“What a performance,” said coach Jon Fick, whose Dragons were trying for their third D-I title in four years and Pacific-record 12th overall.
“A buzz saw of threes,” Fick said. “We faced the best team in the tournament tonight. Shooting is a huge deodorant. And their defensive and rebounding performances were equally outstanding. They just crushed us tonight.”
Kareem Key’s bucket sparked an 11-0 run for an 11-3 Kubasaki lead with 2:03 left in the first quarter. The Vanguards slowly chipped away, then the teams traded the lead five times in the second period before Ishak’s three 1:27 before halftime put Faith ahead to stay 28-27.
It wasn’t so much the number of long-range shots for Faith, but how the Vanguards were getting them, Fick said.
“It seemed like every time we got a momentum shift, get a steal or get a turnover, they’d go back and bam, another three,” he said.
“We’d come down, get a good look, put up something we’d been hitting all week, we’d miss and bam, another three. We’d get a steal, the ball would slip through our hands, they’d pick it up, whip it behind the back to T.J. and bam, another three. Just an outstanding performance.”
Ishak added 10 points for Faith. DeQuan Alderman led the Dragons with 26 points and Nick Ashley added 13.
The Vanguards have won eight Far East titles overall, including four Division I titles. But this will likely be the last one for Faith, now a member of a first-year 12-member conference of missionary schools, including former Far East tournament regulars Morrison Academy of Taiwan and Yongsan International-Seoul of Korea.
“We said our goal was to come and win the Far East, that this is our last year and we said, let’s just lay it out on the line,” Nichols said. “These guys have worked hard from the first day of practice. They are the best team I ever coached and they proved it today.”
http://www.stripes.com/sports/faith-s-long-range-barrage-sinks-kubasaki-1.268826#
all photos © Kelsey Rogers for The Stars and Stripes
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