Area girls have Xtreme success: AAU runner-up finish enhances respect.

Byline: Jaime Lackey

Jul. 12--Two years ago, the Tennessee Xtreme AAU basketball program's 9-under girls' team won three of its 38 games. That same team was a game away from being this year's 11-under national champion. Its second-place finish earlier this month at the national tournament in Springfield, Mo., thrust the five-year-old Xtreme program into the spotlight, and its founders hope it will stay there. "Our program was slowly but surely getting known within 150 miles of Hamilton County, but now we're known nationally," said Cleveland's Roger Crick, who co-founded the Xtreme with Juan Hansford of Chattanooga. "That's what we were wanting to do. Now you could …