Hayes DARE Basketball Team 2015 Champions

The Hayes DARE Basketball team members: 

Front Row: Billy Breninghouse, Zack Simmons, Aaron Hoegner, James Toole, Chase Holyko, Dylan Ferry, Mason Miller, Zyereion Doxley, Jacob Goings

Back Row: Coach Anwar Zahriyeh, Will Hyatt, Sophia Stringer, Alesis Stringer, Alesha Kotyla, Danny Garcia, Mollie Henrikson, Jannah Zahriyeh, Angelique Christou, Dylan Popovich, Lennah Papadorotheou, Noah Eisel, Coach Ben Toole 

Not Pictured: Dermot Healy, Molly Minadeo, Kasey Perron

The 2015 DARE Basketball Tournament was held Sat. April 18 at Garfield Middle School. This annual one day tournament is put on by the DARE Officers Rasch and Acklin and The Lakewood Police Department. This year's champions was the team from Hayes, coached by mother and son combo Stephanie and Ben Toole with the help of LHS junior Anwar Zahriyeh. After first defeating the teams from Harrison and Lincoln, the Hayes 5th graders took on the team from Emerson for a close and exciting championship game.

In the end, the team from Hayes came out victorious, bringing the 2015 DARE Basketball Championship banner to hang in the Hayes gym.