It's a Buzzer-Beater 3!!!

Clark vs. Berkner - Freshman Basketball - Friday, December 7, 2007

Daniel's game last night was filled with ups and downs... well, mostly downs but the Clark Cougars made a strong comeback after being down by as much as 16 in the 4th quarter. Daniel started and played most of the 3rd quarter until he made a doube-dribble mistake and coach asked him to warm the bench. A scoring discrepency between the books and the board occurred when one of the Cougar free-throws wasn't reflected on the board as it should have been. The grumpy, old, Berkner scorekeeper wasn't going to be corrected by the 15 year-old book-keeper from Clark so the board stayed in error throughout the remainder of the game. We were down to the last 6 seconds of the game and Clark was down by 4 (which most everyone really understood was 3 and would be worked out by the officials later). Coach called time out and put a plan in place to tie the game. He pulled Daniel off the bench and asked him to get himself open for an outside 3. The ball was in-bounded, the clock started ticking and Daniel sprinted to his sweet-spot. With one second left on the clock he got the ball and shot over the heads and hands of two large defenders from Berkner. Time expired with the ball in the air... SWISH! There was a large debate still ensuing when we left the gym Friday night over the scoreboard debacle but in at least one 15 year-old's head he saved the game for his team and received some much needed praise from his coach.