CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES

COME ON!

Alicante won the LEB Gold Championship today which moves them into the top division, the ACB, in Spain where the top four teams play in the Euroleague. Reaching the ACB was a goal for the team for the past two years and one of the reasons they wanted Taylor to play for them.

They did it~

It was *such* an exciting game! Congratulations to Taylor and the team!

PLAYOFF WEBSITE

THERE IS A NEW WEBSITE IN SPAIN THAT WILL BE TELEVISING THE SEMI FINAL GAME ON SATURDAY AT 12:30 PM THAT HAS A LARGER SCREEN AND BETTER QUALITY...

at 12:30 go to: www.populartv.net

and click on the "Emision en Directo" tab button; it is yellow

If Lucentum Alicante win on Saturday; they will play the next day, on Sunday, at the same time, 12:30pm and it will be televised on the same website.

Good luck Taylor and Alicante!

Semi-Finals

Taylor's next game is vs. Los Barrios at a neutral court in Madrid for the semi-final game of the final four on Saturday, 5/30/09, at 12:30 pm Eastern time.

From Taylor's Dad:

Alicante won their 1/4 final playoffs by beating Ford Burgos in the third game, 84 - 57, and will play in the first semi-final game this Saturday to see which team advances to the championship game on Sunday, 5/31/09..

The playoff schedule is now on www.febtv.com (the same site where the games are viewed; simply scroll down...

Here is a link to the video stream:

http://www.febtv.com/

find the list of games on the right side; click on the "Lucentum Alicante" game; that will open up the video of the game inside the TV screen. Taylor is #15, usually wears high white socks with black ankle braces.

WOOOHOOO!

From Taylor:

Hey we made it to the Final Four and our schedule will be this. We play on Saturday at 4 pm spain time and so I believe it would be 10 am eastern time. Then if we win we play on Sunday for the Championship at 5 pm spain time and 11 am eastern time. It should be on www.febtv.com again. Hope it all works out. I will let you know if anything changes.

GOOD LUCK TAYLOR AND ALICANTE!!!

***have you signed up for the Coppenrath Summer Slam yet?!?!?

Playoffs!

Hi All! Catch Taylor's playoff game today at 2:30EST on www.febtv.com!

Hometown Love

There was an article about Taylor's playoff game in the Burlington Free Press this morning! Check it out here!

Play Offs

We have an update from Taylor today about their first playoff game! He writes:

Well the first game didnt go quite as we hoped. We were playing well but needed to get lucky at the end. We were down a few points with a minute or so to go and Alain hit a three. Then we were down three with about a minute and we ran two high screen and rolls for the point guard and everyone collapsed inside and I was left open and took the three and made it to tie the game.

Then next posession, I was called for a foul and had to leave with 5 fouls. They made one of two free throws, we went down and missed a three and got the rebound but was called for a foul again. So the other team made one of two again leaving us down by two with 20 seconds left in the game. Then we ran a play and Martynas was fouled intentionally or unsportsman like and was giving two free throws and we would have the ball with 7 seconds. Their coach started yelling and was given two technicals and ejected from the game. So Martynas made two free throws and Alain made four free throws putting us up four with the ball. We inbounded to Alain and he was fouled again and made both. We won the game!!!

Here is a link to the boxscore.... http://www.feb.es/Pasarela/MostrarPasarela.aspx?Tipo=Resultados&g=1&t=2007

Way to go Taylor and Alicante!