B-Ball Champs! (4/4/14)

Honor: Restored

After coming up short year after year, we finally got the monkey off our back and beat our arch nemesis, the McLean 2nd Ward, to win the McLean Virginia stake basketball tournament.

Some season highlights:

• Winning our first game by Aaron Dodini stealing the inbounds pass with 2 seconds left and putting up a quick layup to win it.
• Christian Dees earning the nickname, “Coast to Coast” by doing just that, while also adding the flare of a 360 spin and a never-ending hangtime finger-roll.
• Any time Daniel Harbuck shot one of his patented, high-arching 3-pointers (with great accuracy, it must be added)
• The Abraham Smith no-look, over-the-shoulder assist
• The devoted fan club (special props to Aubrey, Penny, and Nelly)
• The increasingly disappearing shot clock substituted usually by some unwitting fan with an iPhone.
• Andrew Smith jetpack rebounds
• Devan Hanneman knowing his own deadly combination of rage and size and opting to leave the premises entirely when he was the victim of too many bad officiating calls.  
• Victory shakes at Burger 7 on Lee Highway
• Repeated weekly announcements in Priesthood opening exercises  to make sure everyone got the word that our team had won this year