Any time you can get 6 of your tournaments 8 teams ranking in the top 12 of the provincial rankings you have to be happy.

That is just what happened at this years 54th Annual Okana-Qen as the SOSS Hornets hosted #1 Southridge, #3 Fulton, #10 Golden and #11 PAC and # 12 GW Graham, along with Westsyde and Maggie to round out the 8 team tournament.

In the end #1 Southridge lived up to their ranking as they won the tournament with Golden placing 2nd and for sure will move up the rankings. Fulton missing 2 of their key players will likely drop down.

As for the Hornets they played inconsistent ball this weekend leading to 1-3 record which will most likely result in them dropping out of the rankings. The Hornets started the tournament with a solid win over GW Graham of Chilliwack by a score of 78-71. After trailing by 7 at the half the Hornets were able to put together a solid 2nd half en route to the victory. Austin Basso led the Hornets with 21 points followed by Anmol Malhi who added 16 in the victory. Malhi was named player of the game. In the second game the Hornets played #10 Golden a game in which they never seemed to find their rythm as the trailed the whole game. They did make a run in the 3rd to tie it up but some inconsistent play allowed Golden to take the victory 71-61.

The Hornets were once again led by Basso who poured in 22 points earning player of the game honors followed by Kulbir Grewal who added 17 points in the loss. In their 3rd game the Hornets faced #1 Southridge in a well played very exciting game. At the end of the first the Hornets trailed by 1 20-19, and by half the Storm had push the lead to 6 33-27. In the second half the Hornets could get no closer than 5 points as they had mental let down late in the 3rd quarter thus allowing the storm to take a 11 point lead to victory,  (72-61) this game even though it was a loss was the most consistent game the Hornets played in a while. Austin Basso led the Hornets once again with 21 points followed by Kulbir Grewal with 17 and Gurshan Dhaliwal with 8 points. Grewal was named player of the game. In their final game on Saturday the Hornets once again seemed out of sync as they were unable to generate much offense and they shot an abyssmal 23% from the 3 point line en route to a 58-56 loss. Basso had 23 points earning a tournament all star award as Anmol Malhi added 8 points in the loss.

The Hornets will play George Elliot of Winfield on Tuesday and then they are off to Chilliwack for a tournament on December 11-13.

On December 15th they will host Summerland at home game time is 6:45. The Hornets are 3-4 overall.