Halcones Rojos Veracruz

Putting together a team without a lot of planning and a little less than a month after starting the 2005 season, the RedHawks ( so Called by the governor Fidel Herrera Beltrán ) surprised the league to qualify for the play-off for second place in the South Zone .

Under the orders of the Mexican coach Jose Luis "Satan" Creeks, and with an initial staff of 15 players: Karim Malpica, Oscar Castellanos, Alonso Izaguirre, Hector Martinez, Octavio Robles, Francisco Morales, Roberto Elicerio, Juan Escalante, Francisco Ibarra, Veracruz and Iván Hernández and Arnulfo Antonio Valenzuela Valenzuela, plus Americans Craig Jackson, Christopher Ferguson and Lataryl Williams, the RedHawks opened the season against the Red Wave of the Federal District with a defeat as a visitor, but they turned out to be the surprise team of the season in his debut campaign, being second in the South at the end of his first foray into the league.

Remarkably, the three foreigners who began the season were changed by their poor performance and were replaced by the Americans also Antonio " La Chispa" Rivers, Carlus Groves and Jason Love Lawson.

For this tournament 8 new players were added to total a Roster of 15 items, which were: Hector Nungaray ( Coming Royals Santos de San Luis), César Briseno (Sourced from Royals Santos de San Luis, and was discharged ), Juan Manuel Veracruz Esteva (Sourced from Gambusinos Fresnillo ), Jorge Luis Hernandez (low player required by the league), Omar Gonzalez (low player required by the league), and the Mexican-American Rick Torres ( Discharged early in the season ), in addition to U.S. Reginald Jordan ( Former NBA and the Comets from Querétaro to superstar status LNBP ) and Lawrence Nelson ( Algodoneros coming of the Shire, and it came as the best center League last season, however he was discharged to his low performance ) .

Just as the U.S. Lamar Castile ( Coming Roadrunner UAT Victoria, and lasted less than a month in the team ), who came to cover the floor of the also foreign player Charles " Bird " Byrd ( At which he was offered the post of assistant Coach, and did not accept ), who did not fully recover from the injury he suffered in the final of the South Zone of the Independence Cup at the Lechugueros Lion, the early season.

In the area of foreign players, the U.S. Lawayne Gouards Da Juan was on trial for covering the floor of Lamar Castile, however this does not live up to expectations and was not activated within the roster.

However, the red feathered fell to the Semifinals Zone UV Xalapa Falcons by 3 games to 1, where finally the absences through injury of captain Oscar " El Diablo " Castellanos, Hector Nungaray and Gerald Eaker is disrupted.

Finally, the Puerto Rican Bobby Joe Hatton joined the team in place of Calvin Cage Base template for a total of 13 elements, since the low of Pivots Michael Saulsberry and Gerald Eaker were not covered.

Note that because the Board of the league did not give the support to the player to play with Angelo Reyes status Latin, also Puerto Rican Ricky Sanchez (Sourced from Humacao Grays ) came to occupy the space vacated this .

However, in the round of finals in the absence of a natural Pivot, American Larry Abney was activated to replace Daimon Gonner Alero, although the latter remained with the team as it would have required re-enable it .

In the Final Series LNBP, the RedHawks fell 4-1 to the Falcons UV Xalapa, thereby achieving the runner-up and giving the organization porteña the third title in the club's history.

Finally, Alejandro Pérez Zarco (Sourced from the Lechugueros Leon ) joined the team in early December when he finished his college career, being at that time, a Roster of 16 players.

Valles (Los Angeles, CA) and Venezuelan Gregory Vargas (Sourced from Marine Anzoategui ) .30 However, because I had a Ramon Clemente prior commitment to a club in Israel, Venezuelan Luis Bethelmy (Sourced from Caracas Crocodiles ) came to sustituirlo.31 32 also American Jeff Aubry (Sourced from Arecibo Captains, and returned to the club for the third time ) is he joined the team in place of fellow Shaun Pruitt.33 For this campaign, the Puerto Rican coach Eddie Casiano was hired to lead the Veracruz quintet definitively, which took over the Jarocho team temporarily last season, while Manolo Cintron fulfilled its commitment in front of the basketball team of Puerto Rico in World Turquía.34 At the end of this season, the Red Hawks were in first place in the overall standings with 34 games won mark for only 6 losses, for a total of 74 puntos.35 addition were the better team as a local with record 19-1 win–loss record, 36 and also the best visitor with 15 wins and just 5 derrotas.37 They were also the best defense of the circuit to accept only 2745 points, for an average of 68.62 per partido.38 Note that since coming to Mexican professional basketball, Veracruz Red Hawks had not had as good numbers as in this campaign.

For this tournament 6 new players were added to total a Roster of 15 items, which were: Elvis Medina ( Coming of the Hurricane Tampico ), Francisco Cruz (Sourced from Guinda Nogales Force ), naturalized Mexican Americans Leroy Davis ( Hurricanes from Tampico ) and Mike Mitchell (Sourced from the Fuerza Regia Monterrey ), in addition to Mexican Americans Karim Scott Rodriguez ( Recruited from the tryouts held in Los Angeles ) and Marco Ramos ( Recruited from the tryouts held in Los Angeles ) .55 To cover the withdrawal of the injured Carlos Rivera Puerto Rican compatriot Filiberto Rivera joined the team from the Pipers of Zulia Venezuela.56 the other hand, to cover the temporary absence of the Venezuelan Luis Bethelmy, Panamanian Danilo Pinnock joined the Uniceub club from BRB Brasil.57 Moreover, before the departure of previous commitments by Filiberto Rivera arrival at jarocho team, the U.S. came to replace Curtis Stinson from the Cedevita Zagreb Croacia.58 Finally Venezuelan Luis Bethelmy is rejoined the team to cover the U.S. out injured Jeff Aubry.

Both the Puerto Rican Carlos Rivera as American Jeff Aubry continued the Veracruz team until the end of the season, providing a possible injury of foreign players in the postseason.

Also caused low Javier Ramos, Brandon Heredia and Salvador Cuevas, to let a momentary Roster 13 elementos.67 worth mentioning that before the Puerto Rican out injured David Huertas, American James Maye ( Coming Titans Licey ) joined team to cover that square extranjero.68 Moreover, youth Joshua Ruiz ( Coming UDLAP ) joined the team to complete a roster of 14 elementos.69 on the other hand, the U.S. Leroy Hickerson (Sourced from the Falcons UV Xalapa ) joined the team, replacing compatriot James Maye, who was terminated for failing to meet expectations club.70 Finally, the Mexican -American Brody Angley (Sourced from the Toros de Nuevo Laredo ) joined the team in replacing Mike Mitchell.71 72 Notably after the abandonment of the Dominican Edward Santana, 73 Puerto Rican Renaldo Balkman ( Coming Warlock of Guayama ) came to fill that space foráneo.74 Finally, due to injury Filiberto Rivera and some administrative complications in processing naturalization of Carlos Rivera, the club's board announced the highest this último.75 Just as the reinstatement of Mike Mitchell instead of Joshua Ruiz, leaving a staff of 13 players again .76 At the end of the season, the RedHawks were in first place in the overall standings with 33 games won mark for only 7 lost, for a total of 73 puntos.77 addition were the better team as a local with record 19-1 win–loss record, 78 and also the best visitor with 14 wins and only 6 derrotas.79 For the fourth consecutive season were the best defensive circuit to accept only 3029 points, for an average of 75.73 per game.