Spartans News

Our final league game of the year had little or no consequence as, win or lose, we have established second-place in our division and will face the first-place team in the other division in the playoff semi-final on February 22. Nevertheless, we wanted to play for a win and to give lots of people good minutes to end the season.  We started well with Julia leading us with 8 (including a 2/2 free throws and a 3pt. basket) and her buddy Erika with three buckets for 6 points.  1Q Score: SC 14 - LB 7   

This penultimate league game of the season was one that will long be remembered. Was it a great victory? A close victory? A great story or lesson? No. None of those. Just a weird event. Early in the first quarter the scoreboard had the wrong score. The same thing happened in the second quarter, and that time it took a lot of convincing to get our correct points on the scoreboard. One four-point swing was enough, this one was stopped. 1Q Score: SC 8 - SemSal 4   

This game would be the first of four away games each Monday and Tuesday evenings over two weeks in February to end our league regular game schedule. This was Seminaire’s Senior Night, so we patiently awaited their ceremony to finish and volunteered to wear yellow pinnies when both teams arrived wearing red. The custom/rule is that the home team wears pinnies, but we said we would be happy to wear the pinnies as it was their special day for photos and the like.

Memories of last year against Seminaire de Sherbrooke include our important 28-26 win that ended up clinching the league banner for SC, followed by the forfeit in their last league game against us, which rearranged the playoff seedings for all teams with interesting results. Our first game against them this season was not a close contest, but there were many positive traits shown by the Spartan players this evening. 

Last week, the Spartans travelled to Drummondville to take on La Poudriere at their school. I heard that the game was against a very tough opponent who pressed and played well, also that at some point it was decided to remove the scores from the scoreboard as their lead went from 20 to 30 to 40 and ultimately to 50+ points. It was a very tough loss for the Spartans with a final score of 11-62.

This past weekend, the  Senior Girl Basketball Spartans traveled to Quebec City to participate in the 53rd Annual Anderson-Bailly Small Schools Basketball Tournament.