Third Times The Charm

Third times the charm certainly proved true this Tuesday night.  My friends Anthony, Kyle, and I showed the rec league how to really play 3 on 3 basketball.  We have played in the tournament for the last three years and our record the first two years was an embarrassing 1-2.  We are basketball fanatics, we love watching it and love playing it even more.  Now, we know were not really good at basketball but this winter we joined a CYO team at Holy Angels.  We finished out our CYO season with the record of 2-10, one of the wins by forfeit.  Regardless of our record we knew the Blue-Gold rec league was ours this year.  We arrived Tuesday at 6:30 with our traditional V-necks.  We had a great first round winning by a wide margin, maybe with some help from the ref. In our second game we faced our arch rivals, the St. Johns players, what they didn't know was, we were out for revenge, and we got it.  After the first two games we faced a new enemy, stamina.  None of us were really in cardiovascular shape since we hadn't really done any physical activity in the last three weeks. We battled through our poor physical state by winning in the semi-finals with a go ahead basket in the last minute (made by me by the way, just saying).  Finally, it was the moment we had been waiting for, for the last three years, the championship game.  We were going up against the team that knocked us out of the tournament the previous year, but this time we came to play, and play we did.  Kyle kicked off the game with a spot up three pointer, followed by another one giving us a 6-0 advantage.  The opposing team fought back to tie the score and then took a 9-6 lead.  I then lead our scoring rally with a block on one of their teammates and then an immediate jumper, there was no looking back after that.  It was a miracle, the New Castle County Globetrotters had finally took home the gold!