Hillsboro's own MAYB tourney starts Friday
More than 75 hoop teams will descend into the Hillsboro area this weekend as the city hosts its first annual MAYB basketball tournament.
The local tourney is being coordinated by Rusty and Debbie Allen of Hillsboro. Rusty is head women's basketball coach at Tabor College.
More than 75 teams are scheduled to participate in the event, which begins Friday evening and runs through Sunday evening, according to Debbie Allen. Games will be played in the three available Hillsboro gyms — middle school, Tabor College, and Tabor campus recreation center — as well as gyms at Marion and Canton-Galva.
This is Hillsboro's first year to hold its own tournament, Allen said. Each June, sections of the national tournament are played in the area, but they're always part of the larger national tournament, which is based in Newton.
Several teams from the Hillsboro and Marion area are signed up, she said.
A variety of age groups are set to play in the tourney, including 11th- and 12th-grade boys and girls, ninth- and tenth-grade girls and boys, eighth-grade girls, seventh-grade girls, seventh- and eighth-grade boys, fifth- and sixth-grade boys and girls, and fourth-grade boys and girls.
Hillsboro teams will play in the 11/12 boys, seventh girls, and fifth/sixth girls — which is the largest division, with 12 teams competing.
For more information about the tournament, contact the MAYB office in Newton at (316) 284-0354 or visit http://www.mayb.com /data/1294.pdf.
