Ravenwood - 01/14/05 06:30 PM
The AP reports that the Bellows Free Academy-Fairfax beat Milton on Wednesday night by a final score: 5-2.
...in basketball. The game-winning basket came in the 2nd quarter.
"I've never had a player hit a game-winner in the second quarter before," BFA-Fairfax coach Glen Button Jr. said.It could not immediately be determined if the score was a state or national record low, but the contest certainly attracted attention.
"It had to have been one of the most boring games in the world," said Bob Johnson, the director of student activities for the Vermont Principals' Association, which governs high school sports.
Neither team scored in the second half.
"It was the ultimate deliberate stalemate," Milton coach Jim Smith said. "They didn't come out after us and we didn't go in against them."
Smith said the slowdown was implemented because BFA (7-4) has a strong scoring presence, while Milton (2-8) does not. The Milton players believed their best chance to be competitive was to just hold onto the ball.
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Phhhhhunccckkttt...sound of milk streaming through nostrils... Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!
Are the comments from coach Smith real?
No, really, for real? HA!
Go back and read his quotes see if you, too think of John Kerry's view on the war on terror...
Posted by: Steve Scudder at January 14, 2005 8:01 PMSo they deliberately froze the ball, even though they were down?? I could see if they had managed a surprise lead against a superior team, but why freeze and hope that a last minute three pointer will, at best, tie the game?
Also, what about the quarterly tipoffs?
And lastly, the other team must be 'losers' also to have just sat there and not tried for the ball. (I assume, since there were no fouls.)
Thank God it was an intra-bluestate game. I'm betting it was all white also. You could not get black players to sit still for such silly sh*t for four quarters. Kerry country indeed.
Maybe they figured losing by 5-2 was better than losing by 105-2.
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