To: OldAIMGuy who wrote (4879 ) 2/1/1999 8:27:00 PM From: Robert G. Harrell Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6317
<OT> Hi Tom, Wish I had good news. When your opponent has three guys in pre-game warmups doing a weave throwing each other lobs for alley-oop dunks, you know you're in deep doo doo. If I didn't tell you anything but the shooting percentages you'd know the outcome. We shot 24% from the field and they shot 64%. They have a 6'-3" 285lb junior center with soft hands (highly recruited 1st team all state football player) who pounded our "big" men and got them in foul trouble. Even their 6'-8" third stringer came off the bench and bagged two rainbow 3's. They were truly hitting on all cylinders. To quote the newspaper:On Friday night, GHS emptied several years of frustration upon Buchholz, and the result was a 79 - 41 clinic in which GHS was near perfect on both ends of the court. I think that in addition to the usual cross town rival motives, they were smarting from blowing two games in a row including one against their other cross town rival and dropping in the polls from #2 to #6. The good news for us was that Grant had a great game. He was high scorer in spite of having to go out once to have his ankle re-taped and another time to have a bloody knee bandaged. Only two players - Jerry Edwards (17 points) and Melvin McCray (10 points) - scored in double figures for GHS, but a total of 11 scored. GHS made 30 of 47 field goal attempts and all seven of its attempts in the forth quarter. BHS got 13 points from Grant Harrell and 10 from Fritz Reichart, but as a team the Bobcats struggled against a swarming defense. The game actually slipped away while he was having his ankle taped. Once you give GHS a good lead, it's all over. They, unlike us, know how to put a team away. Anyway, we got another clip from the late evening news to add to our collection of Grant Harrell TV highlights and my wife has another article for her collection with Grant mentioned twice. He was bouncing off the ceiling when he got home because he just wanted to play well. We don't have any illusions that we will beat GHS this year or next. They have seven players that play for an AAU team that has won the state championship six years in a row and was 9th in the nation when they went to nationals a couple years ago. However, they'll all be gone Grant's senior year and our JV team soundly beat theirs, so things will be different in two years. Meanwhile, back in the world of finance, it looks like JBL is over the post stock offering sell off. Have a good week, Bob