Continued from Pg 18

The Road to Victory

Geoff Lenahan , Douglas College Basketball Superstar

undefeated Mystics, and getting to the
finals. And it wasn’t just a 6 point lead,
we were controlling the game, we had
the tempo right where we wanted, and
we were not being out rebounded.
In the third quarter, we kept going

‘back and forth. We went up 10 early
after a Graemo [Graeme McCullum]
three ball and a Janders [James
Anderson] bank hook shot. We thought
we had it when Graemo pulled up on
the break, but he rimmed out a shot that
is normally automatic.
Then they started to chip
back and got it to within
three. But that’s when
ice-cold, ‘Tan’ (Aneetan
Braich) checked into the
game with 13 seconds
left and canned a three
that restored our six point
lead at the end of the
third.

The Last Ten Minutes
The energy was burning
through the entire

team. We huddled at
every stoppage on the
floor. Players were
linking arms together
during timeouts to keep
everything tight. We have
never been this close, we
knew we weren’t going
to lose, and we knew it
was because we have
fourteen guys working
together, no one was, or
is as deep as us, and no
one works together the
way we do.

We were up 6, and
our defence was strong,
but no team is going to
roll over and give up
their spot in the National
Championships. The
fourth quarter started,
and the crowd was loud.
MSVU fed off that
energy. We missed a few
shots we should have
hit, had a few untimely
turnovers and the crowd
loved it.

I personally have
never been in a gym
that was so loud. It was

 

unbelievable. However, Pc
MSVU slowly worked ae |
themselves back into fe
the game. An offensive or
rebound on a free throw, S

a foul, hitting one of two ba
free throws, and Voila! aan
They had knotted up the m4

game at 50-50 with 5:04
left. The best thing about
having a team with as
much experience that we
have is that no one ever
panics.

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Even after Graemo, Shaner
[Shane Heuring] and Sturg [Andrew
Sturgeon] fouled out—that’s three of
our starters—no one worried. We were
going to win, we just needed other guys
to step in; but we all know the system
and we all trust each other. After they
had tied it up, our composure kicked
back in and we quickly went back up
five points. But again over the next
three minutes, they kept right with us
and actually got it back down to one

with a minute left.

Bear then came down calling our
play, found Veale curling out to the
wing and all of a sudden our four
point lead was restored. A timeout
was quickly called by MSVU and we
thought that would be it, that was a
difficult shot and it would mean they
would have to score twice to get back to
either take the lead or tie it up. But as I
said they weren’t going to hand it to us.
After the timeout, they came down and

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got to the hoop to get to within two. We
went down with just under 30 seconds
left, and knew they would want to foul
us if we killed too much time. So we
executed our press break perfectly, and
they were left with no choice but to
foul our best free throw shooter with
only 14 seconds left. Clayton Heuring
stepped up to the line and nailed two
free throws to lock the game and send
us to the National Championship game
tomorrow night.