 Registrations for Pikeville YMCA's Boys and Girls basketball tournament are in gear. Friday mountaintops spoke with youth sports director Clifton Hatfield about how you can get involved. Yeah actually we got two tournaments coming up it's actually four in total we're gonna try to have on March 5th we're gonna have a fifth and sixth grade boys and girls division it should be one Saturday both courts should be running girls division on one side boys on the other side and then on March 12th we're gonna try to do the same thing with the seventh and eighth grade school teams or travel teams whatever it may be we'll have girls on one side boys on the other side so we're just really trying to kind of give all the teams around the area an opportunity to get a couple games in in one day we should be short and quick and before kind of baseball season kind of starts kicking in. Additionally Hatfield says anyone outside of the YMCA's basketball teams is eligible offering both fifth and sixth and seventh and eighth grades a chance to show off their skill. It could be anybody I know currently we have a little league that's running now that has teams from Dorton to Paintsville in it so they don't have to be a school team if you just got a bunch of kids who want to get some games in you can come and register those kids and we'll make sure you get I think it's three games guaranteed in on that Saturday. With the tournament expected to begin this March Hatfield says they hope to appeal to local kids and we ran some tournaments last year we had really good success we had teams from Perry, Nought and Letcher County comes in and we didn't have very many people here from from our area and and so we really want to kind of kind of give that opportunity out there again that way instead of I know county tournaments coming up for our local schools and it would give them opportunities to play some people outside of our area so it would just be just kind of get some game experience as season kind of winds down. To register you can email CliftonH at pikevilleymca.org or call 6-to-6 4-3-3 96-22 for Mountain Top News. I'm Joel Porchall.