Every Tuesday the best ball in the city goes down at the Dalhousie church, and no you are not invited to come play. There are two teams that play there, it just so happens that they are both in the same division in the same mens league. Over the years we've developed a bond and made each other better basketball players. Mobb has gone from one of the teams in the middle of the pack straight to the top, while the K-9s have lingered at the top every year and having won the championship once. This year however Mobb has been tearing through the league winning every game by an average of 20+ points and having an undefeated record. K-9's, we're just doin our thing lingering at the top as usual with 2 losses and 10 wins. The epic battles on tuesdays is what lets us tear it up in the league on a regular basis. If you follow me on my blog you kind of get an idea of how successful the k-9s are, to see how successful mobb is in great detail you can follow them through my boy Saint's blog here. February 17th was the date set for these two teams to meet for their regular season game. Although it did not feel like any regular season game. The atmosphere to start was pretty electric, all the people that have anything to do with church ball on tuesdays were out to watch. The past 3 years all the games have been decided by less that 5 points one of them being sent into overtime. This game would be no different although it certainly did not start out that way. Mobb took off with their run and gun offence and took a 22 point lead into the 4th quarter. But this is church ball, and the one thing i've learned from going to the church is you gotta keep the faith! I'll let the newspaper article, scoresheet, and who's possession the Dalhousie Cup is in tell the rest of the story.
(This shot wasn't actually on me, i left my man in the corner because i knew Saint was gonna take this shot, so there were 3 of us on him at this point)
(49 points in the 4th quarter and overtime is how you make a 22 point comeback)
(random pic from the church hahahaha this was taken a few weeks ago, who's panties are these guys?! it was all dudes in there who's laundry did this get mixed in with?)
So we changed up our D and started goin at them hard in the 4th, a lot of teams would have given up, i know that some of guys watching left and missed the epic ending but not us, we kept the faith, we came back and won the game. and in light of the olympic spirit i ask "do you believe?" i know i do, now GO CANADA GO!!! Peace!
-J.Au...SON!!!
Man that's a good looking trophy. I think maybe it could possibly trade hands in the playoffs though. I didn't have my toddler put all that work into a trophy for just regular season games..... I think any head-to-head match-up will do.
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