Annual St. Martin De Porres CYO Basketball Tournament

Annual St. Martin de Porres CYO Basketball Tournament.

Tournament web site:

Siteisupdatedwith all the key information for this year's tournament. You can also view many photos from previous tournaments:

• All round-robin games of the tournament will be played onSaturday 12/9,Sunday 12/10,Saturday 12/16,Sunday 12/17andSaturday 12/30(Vassar College only). As always, I will work around county travel games so that there are no conflicts, but I will need to know your county games on these dates once you know them.

• Final four and championship games for the B5, B6, G56 and G78 divisions will be played at the McCann Arena at Marist College. These games will most likely be played onFriday 1/5,Sunday 1/7,Friday 1/12andSunday 1/14. Unlike the first nine years, the MAAC didn't leave a free weekend in early January, so I have to get the final four games in over 4 instead of 2 days at Marist. B4 teams are welcome to participate and are likely to play in the B5 division unless several B4 teams enter.

• The final four and championship games for the B7 and B8 divisions will be played at the Athletic and Fitness Center at Vassar College onSaturday, 1/13.

• Each division will have three four team pools at a maximum, so this tournament can accommodate 72 teams and a total of 126 games.

• Most of the sites that you have enjoyed the last eight years are back again. This year's tourney sites will beMarist College, Vassar College, The Culinary Institute of America, Oakwood Friends School and St. Martin.

• All team's will play a minimum of three games while the finalists in each division will play five games.

• This tournament raises funds not only for the St. Martin parish, but also for Hudson Valley Knights of Columbus food pantries to which we donated $4,750 last year and $30,000 over the first nine tournaments thanks to your participation in 50 / 50's plus St. Martin CYO team collections. This year, we will once again earmark concession profits to subsidize up to 15 St. Martin CYO kids $200 each to attend Camp Veritas next summer, which also includes the Catholic Basketball Camp during the July session at Mount St. Mary College. Please learn more about this awesome camp at

To continue with the planning for this tournament, please let me know byFriday, 9/29which of your teams would be interested in participating.After the teams are known, I will then need payment confirming entry byFriday, 10/13and your official county travel rosters, jersey numbers for the tournament program and tournament t-shirt sizes byFriday, 10/20.

Please feel free to forward this email to other CYO AD's and coaches that may be interested in participating that I may not have on my current distribution list.

Please visit learn more about our program.

If you have further questions on the tournament, then please contact me on my cell(845-206-3068).

Thanks!

Chris Fields