Big turnout at ShoWare Shootout | SLIDESHOW

Hundreds of people assembled in the ShoWare Center's west parking lot to enjoy an enormous, 165-team tournament for all grades and ages last weekend.

More than 600 players competed at the fourth annual ShoWare Shootout 3-on-3 basketball tournament last weekend at the ShoWare Center parking lot. Hundreds of games featured players as young as the third grade as well as a wheelchair division. Republic Services presented the event.

More than 600 players competed at the fourth annual ShoWare Shootout 3-on-3 basketball tournament last weekend at the ShoWare Center parking lot. Hundreds of games featured players as young as the third grade as well as a wheelchair division. Republic Services presented the event.

Hundreds of people assembled in the ShoWare Center’s west parking lot to enjoy an enormous, 165-team tournament for all grades and ages last weekend.

The four-man Forever Young team took the elite division championships at the fourth annual ShoWare Shootout, after its opponent had to forfeit the match when it lost one of its three players to an injury.

In the women’s adult league, team I.C.E reigned supreme, Other divisions saw hard playing as well, with Team Turnt Up capturing the men’s recreational division 1 and Torn Ligaments taking the adult co-ed title.

The Ballerz took the youth co-ed title.

In the wheelchair division, Tacoma Aroma trumped all challengers, and the Tacoma Donkeys claimed the championship in ball hockey, a new event at this year’s shootout.

A high school girls team, the Quakers, and boys team, Hold Up, took titles in their divisions. The youth and children divisions also saw heated competition, with the Kent Elite Black and Push triumphing in the sixth grade boys and girls leagues, respectively.

Push continued its streak to come out on top of the eighth and ninth grade girls divisions.




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