San Cas U.B. are new basketball champs
Good evening I’m James Adderley and we’re certainly glad you could join us for this week’s version of Sports Monday. With both teams boasting a win a piece, basketball fans converged on the City Centre Friday night for the decisive Game III between the B.T.L. Nets and San Cas U.B. that would produce the 2001 semi-pro basketball champion.
The intensity of this confrontation has touched everybody inside the building, so we go to the tip off between Alex Carcamo and Eric Maye, and we’re underway.
It’s B.T.L. with the first points of the ballgame, when Keith Acosta helps this launch from A.C. Augustine hit the target. However, this shot from Darwin Carter does given San Cas a six-point lead in the early going. The Nets answer with this individual move by Albert Alvarez, who lays it with the left hand for two.
The Nets do not block out the wide body of Eric Maye on this missed shot from Carter, so the American slams it home. In traffic, Dwight Myvette, another import, raises for the perimeter jumper that adds to the U.B. total.
Indeed the momentum is all San Cas when Eloy Lamb intercepts this intended pass from Compton “Speedy” Staine and it becomes a four-point swing when Myvette converts at the other end. Chalk up another turnover for Compton “Speedy” Staine, who is picked up by Clinton Fuller, who finds Damon Ollie for the easy two.
At the other end Alex Carcamo, who should be playing in China soon, sinks the pill from the left side. At the half, the University has sported to a fifteen-point lead.
In second half, the Nets come out with a sense of urgency, so Mr. MVP Keith Acosta knocks down the three. Acosta with much improved play after intermission shoots from just inside the three-point line and the deficit is cut to ten points with some sixteen minutes to go.
Meanwhile, if you doubted Dwight Myvette’s basketball skills, then this left hander on the glass off the float should give you a new perspective. Nevertheless, it’s the Nets fighting their way back. Carcamo to Wormsley and Andy answers in the paint. It’s more Dwight Myvette as he abuses both Carcamo and Acosta to land two more U.B. points.
Downcourt, Acosta exacts sweet revenge with this lay in that rattles in and the Nets are only down by six. As a result, things begin to heat up, so Carter hammers Carcamo on his way to the hoop. Carcamo would hit one of two shots.
Folks we must ask Vince “The Postman” Estrada if this is a three-point attempt or an alley-oop pass, but Carcamo sinks the two.
The U.B. reply comes from Eric Maye, who is forced to the left hand, but he does get the basket. Down by nine it’s desperation time for the Nets, so Kevin Seroki gets a big time three to fall. Keith Acosta then finds Andy Wormsley, who finishes with a dunk.
And Wormsley comes right back to hit a three-pointer to pull the Nets to a mere two-point deficit. It’s this three-pointer from Keith Acosta that gives B.T.L. Nets its first lead of the ballgame. But, watch Clinton Fuller come right back with the biggest play of the ballgame, going all the way for two and sinking the free thrown on the foul call.
The Nets downs by three are still in the ballgame, only Seroki gives away the pill in a horrible turnover in money-time. Ow! It must have hurt. The very next play find Alex Carcamo getting two points and he wants a free throw thinking he was fouled, but that us denied by the referee. San Cas U.B. goes on to win in a 76-75 squeaker.
Dwight Myvette, MVP, Finals
“We fought hard. You know the games were tough, as it’s supposed to be in the finals playing for the championship. My hat’s off to B.T.L., they played hard, they came out, it was tough. I didn’t give them much credit, but now I respect them fully. They’re a good team.”
Question: On the night you were not here, what did it feel like to be absent for a very important game and had to come back and rally your team from defeat?”
Dwight Myvette
“I had full confidence in my team on Monday, just had a little setback, but I came back. I missed a piece of this puzzle, but I just feel like I missed an important piece of the puzzle, but I’m still a piece of the puzzle. I was really tired at the end, and I heard a fan say, “Put this one for my father.” This is for him.”
