Liberty Union Youth Basketball Association tailors rules to ensure competitiveness

By  Sean  Golden
January 14th, 2008
Lancaster Eagle-Gazet

BALTIMORE - The feeling when a basketball game comes down to the final minutes is an exhilarating one.

For Liberty Union Middle School's fifth- and sixth-grade boys, their recreational league gives them that feeling almost every week.

Chris Dodd, the treasurer and commissioner of the Liberty Union Youth Boys Basketball Association's fifth- and sixth-grade league, is accustomed to seeing some intense contests. "It's very competitive," Dodd said. "For the most part, each one of our games come down to the wire."

In reality, the league was engineered to have the best competition possible.

In October, more than a month before the season began, the LUYBBA had a practice that was an evaluation of sorts. Among those evaluating and teaching the young players were Liberty Union High School's boys' basketball coaches.

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