Sunday, July 24, 2011

Hoops Sagrado vs. Totonicopan

Following a busy week of classes and camps (more to come about those in a future post), we boarded the bus amid a Friday night rain storm for the quick trip to Totonicopan for a couple of games.

We've talked about the uneven officiating in multiple posts and for multiple years, but the officiating on this chilly Friday evening really took the cake--especially in the Young Guns game. The Young Guns game was fairly close throughout with the team winning by as many as six and training by as many as seven throughout. With time running out (literally 7 seconds) Shaq hit three critical free-throws to tie the game at 60. Toto took the ball down court and got a shot off as time was running out, but the ball didn't go in. Then after the whistle on the scoreboard rang out indicating the game had ended in a tie and we would head to overtime, another whistle could be heard indicating a foul.

It's hard to argue with the hometown ref (and believe us, Bryan and Sam tried), but Toto was awarded two free throws with no time left on the clock. They made one. The Young Guns were without a doubt disappointed, but after the initial frustration wore off about the loss, they became a bit philosophical about the whole thing.



Young Guns 60 vs. Totonicopan 61
Shaq 12p/5a/3r
Brandon 15p/3a/7r
Malik 7p/1a/8r
Jailen 14p/1a
Gibril 9p/2a/2r
Manny 3p/1r
Phillip 2a/5r

The Old Heads game was far less controversial (a 40 point difference helps in this case). Hoops alumn and partner Stan Turner arrived in Guate on Friday in time for the Toto game and the Old Heads were also joined by yet another Jeff who is here in Xela studying Spanish and living in the same house as some of the students.



Old Heads 77 vs. Totonicopan 32
Bryan 10p/4a/3r
Sam 2p/4a/4r
Aniekan 10p/4r
Dario 24p/3a/18r
Josh 18p/5r
Stan 4p/2a/3r
Diggs 1a/2r
Phillp 8p/1r
Jeff 3p/1a/4r

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