Don’t give up on this team yet.
Whatever you do, don’t give up on this team yet.
After many, many harrowing losses, the Rangers had had enough. It was time, time for them to show everyone who they really were. While the Rangers were 4-9, the Brush Arcs were 6-7, on a 4 game winning streak. The Arcs still had time to turn around their season, so they knew what they had to do. But that winning streak meant nothing to no. That was the night they were going to win. After all of everything, the bias, the doubt, the criticism, everything was behind them. This was it.
The Rangers played a hard, brutal, reckless game in regulation time, leading them to overtime. And my, was it a game. These kids were not going down easy, on either side. North wanted it and it was at the tip of their fingers. They could see it waiting before their eyes. They just had to reach out and grab it.
3.0 seconds showed on the clock as Charlie Finucan inbounded the ball. With sweat beads rolling down his face, Travis Picquet threw the ball to the hoop from half court in exhausting desperation. It almost seemed that time was moving in slow motion as the whole crowd stood to their feet, watching the ball soar through the air. This shot was different than any other desperate shot, it was accurate, it was going in. It wasn’t even going to hit the backboard, it was just enough to maybe hit the rim and ever so gentle slide into the net. But before the ball could even touch the rim, a tall Brush defender jumped up and swatted it to the ground.
The crowd, bench, players went wild. And they didn’t go wild because the shot didn’t go in.
That’s a violation.
The OHSAA Officials Rulebooks states that,” A shot may be blocked or pinned against the backboard, even after hitting the backboard, unless the ball is on it’s downward flight or within the cylinder. If goaltending is called for interference with the field goal, the shooting team is awarded the points for the field goal as if it had been made.” The score was 63-65, if the shot would’ve went in or goaltending had been called they would have won 66-65, against a tough Brush team! Couldn’t the referees talk at least?
But they were nowhere to be found.
Whatever you do, don’t give up on this team yet.
After many, many harrowing losses, the Rangers had had enough. It was time, time for them to show everyone who they really were. While the Rangers were 4-9, the Brush Arcs were 6-7, on a 4 game winning streak. The Arcs still had time to turn around their season, so they knew what they had to do. But that winning streak meant nothing to no. That was the night they were going to win. After all of everything, the bias, the doubt, the criticism, everything was behind them. This was it.
The Rangers played a hard, brutal, reckless game in regulation time, leading them to overtime. And my, was it a game. These kids were not going down easy, on either side. North wanted it and it was at the tip of their fingers. They could see it waiting before their eyes. They just had to reach out and grab it.
3.0 seconds showed on the clock as Charlie Finucan inbounded the ball. With sweat beads rolling down his face, Travis Picquet threw the ball to the hoop from half court in exhausting desperation. It almost seemed that time was moving in slow motion as the whole crowd stood to their feet, watching the ball soar through the air. This shot was different than any other desperate shot, it was accurate, it was going in. It wasn’t even going to hit the backboard, it was just enough to maybe hit the rim and ever so gentle slide into the net. But before the ball could even touch the rim, a tall Brush defender jumped up and swatted it to the ground.
The crowd, bench, players went wild. And they didn’t go wild because the shot didn’t go in.
That’s a violation.
The OHSAA Officials Rulebooks states that,” A shot may be blocked or pinned against the backboard, even after hitting the backboard, unless the ball is on it’s downward flight or within the cylinder. If goaltending is called for interference with the field goal, the shooting team is awarded the points for the field goal as if it had been made.” The score was 63-65, if the shot would’ve went in or goaltending had been called they would have won 66-65, against a tough Brush team! Couldn’t the referees talk at least?
But they were nowhere to be found.