Amazing Result

There are ten games in the Rec basketball season this year.  After nine games the, self named, Black Fire were 0-9.  At that point you may think it would be easy to give up, even for the coach.   Even with a diminished hope, we arrived at the gym for our final game of the season.

We scored the first goal late in the first quarter and then we held that lead for much of the game.  By the third quarter we were still leading with a score of 4 to 2.  Seriously, that's the score during the third quarter of a basketball game!

The parents were starting to get really excited.  The players were starting to get really excited.  The coach was about to have a heart attack.

With one minute and thirty four seconds to go in the game, the score remained 4 to 2.

During the last 94 seconds of the game, the other team scored a goal and tied the game.  I was getting pretty nervous at this point because I believe they would just let this rec game end in a tie.  We needed the WIN, not a stupid tie.  A tie means you lost. . . because you didn't win.  

Thankfully, with about thirty seconds remaining, they fouled us and we took two shots.  The first shot missed. The second went in and gave us a 5 - 4 lead with half a minute left to play.  

We held them off for a bit and with one second left on the clock, they called a time out.  Parents and friends for both teams were going crazy.  It was getting VERY loud in the gym and emotions were rising.  

The home team passed the ball in and the ten year old boy tried to take a three point shot as the buzzer sounded.  He missed.  We won.  

I wasn't amazed that we won, we had improved every game.  What amazed me was the ridiculously low score.  Both teams took lots of shots.  Enough to have earned more than forty points each.  But that doesn't really matter.  Even if the score had been 2-1 the fact remains. . .

WE WON!