Monday, January 7, 2013

Mayhem visit Bullets ... Win 88-86

The Morgantown Mayhem visited the Pittsburgh Bullets on January 5, 2013. The Mayhem pulled out a tight victory by a 88-86 margin.

The Mayhem were lead by David Derizzo who scored 20 points on 7 of 10 shooting from the field. JT Lewis pulled down a monster 27 rebounds and also added 13 points. Latrell Alford added another 19 points for the Mayhem, his second good game in a row. The Mayhem had 5 players in double digits.

The Bullets leading scorer was Sorena Orandi with 27 points, he added 7 rebounds as well. Gerald Warrick added a double double with 18 points and 17 rebounds.

Watch the game here

Mayhem v Bullets, 1-5-13

Thank you to the Pittsburgh Bullets and their production staff


Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Meet International Scout for OVBL: Sasa Matenicarski


Sasa has agreed to join the Ohio Valley Basketball league as an international scout. His role with the OVBL is to assist in placing players overseas as well as possibly bring talent from overseas to the OVBL. He is a very accomplished coach in Europe, assisting many players to top tier leagues in different areas of Europe. Sasa has many different contacts with teams, agents and players the world over. We are happy to have Sasa join us and look forward to working with him.


SASA MATENICARSKI Basketball coach CV :

Name : Sasa Matenicarski
Born : 2nd/Oct/1970 in Mostar (Bosnia and Hercegovina)
Nationality : Bosnian / Serbian / Macedonian

Career as player :

Position: Guard .. Sasa was National player in Yugoslavia and Bosnia/Herzegovina National teams .. and played on these clubs :
1985-1991 Borac,Capljina (Bosnia/Hercegovina)
1993-1994 Sloga (Serbia)Pozega
1994-1996 Nemetali Ograzden (Macedonia)
199601997 Herceg Novi(Montenegro)
1997-1998 Paks (Hungary)
1998-2001 Keln and Krefeld (Germany)
2001-2002 Kosjeric (Serbia)

Career as Coach :

2002-2005 : KK Crnokosa Kosjeric (Serbia from D4 to D1) :
Head coach for senior team and worked with junior team , in 3rd season moved the club from the 3rd division to the first division in Serbia and
Head coach for youth categories in the club

2005-2006 : KK Krefeld-Panthers
Head coach for senior team
2006 Head coach KK Slavija Bosnia(D 1)

2006-2007: KK Pozega (Serbia D2) :
Head coach for Women senior team and all youth categories in the club
3rd place with Women senior team
Champion of west Serbian with cadet team
5th place in National championship of Serbian with cadet team

2007-2011: KK Sloga (Serbia D3 to D1) :
Head coach for senior team and head coach for all youth categories in the club
Champion of Serbian 3rd division
Champion of Serbian 2nd division
Champion of West Serbia 2 times with Cadet teams

Worked with a strong individual training Jaka Lakovic from Barcelona and now Galatasaraj,  Goran Dragic from NBA , Kemal Avdic from Bosnia/Hercegovina (he plays in France now) and other players from National teams from Serbia and Macedonia

Serbian basketball Federation award of success in basketball 2002/03, 2005/06 and 2009/10