Varsity Basketball

Seth made the Varsity Basketball team for River Valley High School.  The first thing on his list was a new pair of shoes--FANCY!

This is a good looking team.  

Seth LOVES playing basketball and tries to never miss a practice.  He wishes he had more playing time, but his attitude remains positive and he is growing and improving everyday.  He looks forward to playing next year too.

Here is a clip from the local newspaper--

River Valley 67, Lindhurst 34

Josh Dhatt scored 17 points and distributed eight assists as the Falcons (9-5) stretched their win-streak to four games with a rout of Lindhurst in the shootout's early game.

Rohin Basis chipped in 16 points and seven rebounds and Seth Chatfield contributed eight points and 11 rebounds for River Valley, which has won nine of its last 11 games.

 Although his eyes are closed in this picture, you can still see his awesome rebound skills.

This next newspaper article describes the game between the town rivals--River Valley & Yuba City.  It was a very wild, crazy, intense game with River Valley winning in overtime by 3 points--the first time in the school's history for River Valley to win while playing at Yuba City's gym.

Prior to Friday night, Yuba City High's Honker Gym was nothing less than a house of horrors for River Valley's boys basketball team.

In 10 all-time meetings between the cross-town rivals on the Honkers' home floor, Yuba City was a perfect 10-0 while winning by an average score of 77-52.

That all came to an end on Friday night, and it was clutch plays on both ends of the floor that finally did the trick for the Falcons.

Cris Lamas' block and steal set up a Rohin Basi jumper with 27.4 seconds left to play and River Valley exorcised the demons of years past by rallying back for a thrilling 62-59 Tri-County Conference victory in front of a raucous, standing-room-only crowd.

As you can see, the fans (falcon freaks), the team mates, Seth, and the coach were VERY excited during the game.  In two weeks, the teams will play again in our gym.  We're predicting they will be coming back with a vengeance--should be a good game!