Sunday, January 25, 2009

Puking, Passing Out= 15-1

In the strangest game that I've ever been a part of (as a player and coach), our boys held on despite miserable shooting (after the events mentioned subsequently) for a 44-36 win over another division rival, Turner Ashby, to improve to 15-1, 3-0 in District play. We jumped out to a 19-6 lead, with two dunks (one a thundering two-hander by our starting center and another one by our starting point guard on a fast break). It was after the second dunk when I guess a player from TA thought he'd had enough, and vomited all over the floor. Needless to say, they had to clean it up. However, it took them nearly 30 minutes before we could actually resume play.
We got playing again and then about a minute into game action, play was stopped again. This time for a message: "If there is a doctor, they are needed immediately in the Spotswood fan section." I guess one of our fans passed out. So play was halted again for about 5 minutes. When play finally resumed we had lost all our momentum and never really got it back. However, we made JUST enough shots to win the game.
It's nice because we are now 3-0 in our District with 2 of the first three being on the road. If we can simply hold home court, we should win the District title and receive an automatic bid and a bye to the Regional playoffs. Now, we just have to remain focused and finish down the stretch. I knew we would have a good team, I just never thought our record would be what it is at this point. Good teams finish strong, and we'll try to continue proving we are worthy of a "good team" title.
-Jimmy

1 comment:

Coach Beun said...

Wow this is unique and you have me wondering the one time weird things I've seen in hoops. The best I can come up with is seeing an official call a block-charge which included combining the signal for both calls! :-(