Do you believe in miracles? Well a small one happened tonight. The Seabury Saints played a second round playoff game vs. Sig. Ep. in the Northwestern intramural basketball league. Sig. Ep., though not the top ranked basketball team in the league, had the highest overall power ranking for all combined sports. They were a huge favorite.
Cut to one of my favorite movies, Hoosiers. A small town team huddles in a big city locker room gym prior to the Indiana State basketball finals. The team looks like a team of destiny. The priest gathers the team for prayer. One of the player's father opens the Good Book and reads:
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen."
Cut back to Blomquist Gym at Northwestern. The Seabury Saints surprise the Sig. Ep. frat boys, pulling out to an early lead. The Saints are up at half time. Sig. Ep. makes a run early in the second half and ties the game, but never leads. The Saints pull away in the closing minutes with good ball control and clutch free throw shooting. The final score, Seabury Saints 50, Sig. Ep. 42.
"And David put his hand in the bag and took out a stone and slung it. And it struck the Philistine on the head and he fell to the ground. Amen."
The Saints move on to the Sweet Sixteen!
Posted by Frank Yamada at March 2, 2004 02:57 AMGO SAINTS!!! The Sig Ep's were one of our (Lambda Chi's) most hated rivals at WFU. They were also a powerhouse there to our "smalltown" team, but we never managed to pull off a win against them except in softball. My hearty congrats!!!
-R
Posted by: Ryan Whitley at March 2, 2004 03:24 AMI can't believe I leave Seabury and THEN you get a BB team going! Lord! To this day Gus Heine still knows the one play we needed on the Seabury court "throw me the rock, baby".
Congrats on the upset! I assume you are utilizing some of that young blood, most of the folks in my class (ok, me) would have been DEAD if we actually played a full quarter of a BB game!
Wahoo! When's the next game?
Posted by: Wes at March 3, 2004 02:51 AMThe Saints' next game is tomorrow (Wed) night at 7:00 p.m. in Blomquist gym (near the corner of Foster and Sheridan).
Posted by: Frank at March 3, 2004 05:57 AMWahoo!
Posted by: Tripp at March 3, 2004 05:21 PM