Basketball Game

Today I went to my dad's old high school to watch their championship basketball game. St. Anselm's Abbey, a Catholic school in Northeast Washington, played Avalon, a private school from Gaithersburg. Just having been to the Blair playoff game on Tuesday, the contrast was striking. The gym was a lot smaller than Blair's  and they only had stands on one side. Both schools are all-boys, so there were no cheerleaders, but the crowds were still loud, chanting and jumping up and down. Toward the end of the game, Avalon was ahead, but they shot and missed a three pointer. The Abbey boys chanted "air ball, air ball!" The Avalon student's yelled back "score board, score board!" The Abbey students immediately responded "SAT scores, SAT scores!" Only at the Abbey would they chant about SAT scores at a basketball game! We were down pretty much the whole game, but in the last 5 minutes, Abbey came back and were only down by one. But then they got nervous I guess and messed up and were down by four. With one second to go the point guard  somehow made a wild three pointer, and the game ended 46-47. It was sad they got so close to the championship but lost.
I tried to take pictures, but the iPhone quality wasn't that good.