Hoopfest Goes International - An article about YourSports in the Spokesman Review

Erik Heinz and Seth Yates had just finished doing the play-by-play for one of the games at Youth Center Court on Spokane Falls Boulevard when Laura Walter approached their broadcast table.

Heinz and Yates, part of the small Seattle-based company YourSports that streamed video of youth games online this weekend, had been speculating as to what Walter's daughter Danielle's team name "BBG" stood for.

"We guessed that it was BasketBall Girls," Heinz said.

They were wrong.

Walter politely informed them it was Blessed by God, and that her husband, Stephen, had been able to watch his daughter's game online all the way from Soyo, Angola, in Africa.

"We also had family that watched in Texas and my mother-in-law watched from Oklahoma; it's pretty neat they did that," Laura Walter said. "My mother-in-law called – she's pretty into church. She wanted me to let them know what the team name was."

And Heinz and Yates didn't mind.

"We thought it was pretty cool," Yates said. "Now we can tell people YourSports is international."

Danielle Walter (Pasco), Jazmine Redmon (Mead), Kellie McCann-Smith (Clarkston) and Daisy Burke (Lewis and Clark) teamed up to win the Elite High School Girls title for a second straight year.

The four also play on the same club team, the Northwest Blazers.

This Article can also be found at the Spokesman Review website at: http://www.spokesmanreview.com/tools/story_pf.asp?ID=251092

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