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SG Basketball: Anticlimactic Ending

By Erik Van Dyke
I have no objection to just forgetting that this game vs Marie-Rivier(1) ever happened. After back-to-back amazing season-defining performances at the Bailly and the MacLeod tournaments, your Spartans fell back to earth with a thud this past Saturday in the last game of the season.

Maybe we just don’t like Saturday mornings. Maybe the basketballs had been tampered with and really were too heavy (as the players adamantly claimed). Or maybe injuries, illness and the intense January/February schedule finally caught up with us. But we had no touch (it was like there was a lid on the basket), no hands (had we greased the basketballs in melted butter?) and no legs (we looked like we were running in quicksand… with shin splints). Final score 19-30. We tried, but we just didn’t have it in us.

Actually, no, that’s not completely true. Lea-Rose Remillard had a great all-around game, displaying how versatile she has become this past month (i.e. she played 4 of the 5 positions this game, AND helped break the press). And Player Of The Game Samantha Smith was her usual intense, fast and athletic self, corralling rebounds and dominating her defensive side of the court.

But besides Lea and Sam, the rest of us – including the coaches – can be forgiven for focusing our attention instead on the two fantasticoutstandingsuperbmarvelous tournaments we played the last couple of weekends, and wiping this anticlimactic game from our memory.

Game? What game?

It’s been a great season, ladies, marked by SO MUCH improvement. See you at Athletic Assembly !

- Coaches Van Dyke & Wolfe

Final Statistics
Overall Record: 17 wins 21 losses
RSEQ League Play: 3 wins 11 losses
Points for per game: 33.2 Points allowed per game: 34.3
Stanstead Invitational Tournament Runners-Up
BAILLY Tournament FINALISTS
MacLEOD Provincials 3rd Place
 
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