Monday, March 30, 2009

The Weekend in Indy

So this weekend, my dad and I took a trip down to Indy for the IHSAA state basketball finals. It was a day consisting of four high school basketball games. This used to be an event that we were able to attend every year, however due to work schedules and track in college, we dont always get to. This year I took a holiday I had saved up and took the trip down leaving shortly after 6am. Memories of past IHSAA state finals that we attended came back to mind.
1. The best memory was the first state final I went to. 1990, the first year that the finals were held at the RCA Dome (rest in peace). It was Damon Bailey and Bedford North Lawrence Stars vs. the Concord Minutemen. At this time i didnt care that Bailey was going to Indiana, I wanted Concord to win just because it was a local team. Well Bedford won, due to the outstanding performance of Bailey and his 30 pts. Largest crowd to witness a high school game. It was unreal.

2. The second woud be Clay vs. Valpo ending with a game winning shot by a future Purdue player who shall remain nameless because of the sins that he compited by going to Purdue
3.Luke Zellers half court shot against Plymouth to win the class 3A state that year. What a shot was after Plymouh nailed a 3 to take the lead.

Then this year was the 3A title game featuring Rochester and Princeton. Rochesters Bruce Grimm scored 40 points and sent the game into overtime by hitting a huge 3 at the buzzer. The game went into double overtime before Princeton pulled out the win. Rochester made a record 14 3's in this game and Grimm finished with 40 points.

The last two mentioned games were great and had alot of suspence.
However all this being said, I still want one class basketball back in Indiana!!!

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