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Lions Tournament: Batavia takes championship with win over Notre Dame

By Howard B. Owens

For the sixth straight year, the Batavia High Blue Devils won the annual Batavia Lions Club Basketball Tournament, this time beating Notre Dame 66-33.

Josh Budlong had 14 rebounds as Batavia moved to 6-1. Andrew Hoy scored 12 points. Tom Rapone scored 10 points for Notre Dame. Gianni Zambito added 9 more.  Co Co Irvin was the tournament's MVP. He scored 15 points in the final.

AUDIO:  Post game chat with tournament MVP Co Co Irvin (mp3).

There are 46 more photos from tonight's final game after the jump:

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Howard B. Owens

Thanks, Steve.

I got several nice compliments from Lions Club members and coaches last night for the previous set of pictures.

This time I used a 40-year-old 55mm lens for most of the game. It doesn't auto-focus, but it's a much faster lens, and it's got great glass.

Dec 31, 2009, 11:21am Permalink

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