Our Intramural Reign has Ended
Mood:
sad
Topic: Theology III '05-'06
Well, the UST Intramural Champs have been dethroned. Tonight was the intramural basketball playoffs for the championship to be played on Dec. 3rd. We knew we had our work cut out for us, becuase we were starting with a team that beat us miserably during the regular season, and in the event we were victorious, we probably would face another team that beat us just as bad. As time expired we looked at the score and noticed that neither team had made it to the 30 points required for the early win and that neither team was up...the score was tied at 26. Overtime baby! The two minute clock started with us with the ball. We scored a three pretty early and only needed one more point to put the game away or to stall until time ran out. We got the ball back off of a missed shot by the other team and then ran the rest of the 40 seconds off the clock playing keep away...not the most graceful of wins, but still a win and advancment to the semi-finals.
Here we met "The Brown Squad," and in the "comissioners" grand wisdom, we (the older team of seminarians) had only six minutes of rest before having to start the game that would decide who went to the final game on the court and who went in the stands. This was another hard faught battle, and surprisingly we were up for about half of the game of multiple lead changes. As game time winded down to a close we found ourselves up by a basket. Then out of nowhere the Brown Squad made a three to go up one. We quickly responded with a two taking the lead back. After a few hard faught shots and rebounds, the Brown Squad went up by one with about one minute left. Now was their turn to play waste time off the clock, which they did by fouling everytime we went up to take a shot. The clock never stops when you check the ball so they continued to foul and we continued taking the ball up top and the feeding down low to Berger who would juke and take it to the hole getting fouled. In one last shot of desperatoin with three seconds left, our shooting guard put up a three and then the slow motion started...as the ball went spinning in the air where no one could touch it and all depended on this one shot. As the ball unserimoniously clanged off the rim and fell to the floor, the victors began celebrating becuase they knew what this win meant.
It meant more than just playing in the final game. You see I left out an important piece of information as to the prize we were playing for. The final game is to be played on Tuesday night, December 3, in front of ten's of twenty's of thousands of fans and fellow student on the floor of the Toyota Center during half time of the Rockets Game. This game is designated as UST night at the Toyota Center. Earlier in the afternoon they have activities for students and faculty culminating in watching the UST Intramural Basketball championship...oh and the Rocket also.
I did not realize how much I wanted this until we lost. I was absolutly crushed, though proud of the way we played. I still wanted that last basket to fall. Well, as they say: "You win some and you lose some."
Posted by Big Mike
at 12:01 AM CST
celebratory
happy