Finals

Wednesday August 27th:

BOHICA 46, D & E Painting 42 (OT)

With two (8-1) teams meeting in the finals you knew two halves of basketball wouldn't be enough to settle it. BOHICA who had not lost since a week 1 drubbing at the hands of D & E and D & E who were despite a brief hiccup versus The Flint Tropics were the class of the league all year long met to settle the championship tonight and both played a tough defensive and physical game.

In the first half it started with BOHICA on the offensive behind Kris Johnson and Jordan Vander Baan BOHICA got out to as far as a 10 point lead. You knew D & E would answer but they clapped back hard with Dave Farrer (The League MVP) and Chris Farrer pacing them on a 24-6 run that would give them an eight point lead at the half.

In the Second Half BOHICA upped the tempo with a 1-3-1 half court trap lead by Joe McCann and Kris Johnson found his stroke from the outside with Joe McCann leading the way on the interior to hold a 4 point lead heading into the final moments, however D & E would not back down and BOHICA did not want to make free throws. With BOHICA up 2 and Kris Johnson on the line he managed to knock down one of two. D & E came down the floor, Dave Farrer missed a 25 footer but the ball was knocked out of bounds by BOHICA giving D & E 2.5 seconds to get a shot up. Shawn Howland caught at 26 feet and hit nothing but net at the buzzer to force overtime in the first ever league final.

In overtime McCann once again had the answer scoring on an and one to open the overtime and again wreaking havoc on the defensive end. Down the stretch BOHICA finally made a few throws and when a last second 3 pointer fell short, BOHICA was left as the league champions despite an off night scoring wise from Justin Aldrich and the absence of league all star Brian Vayda.

D & E Painting finishes their season at 8-2 but showed that unselfishness and tremendous defense wins games in men's league.

BOHICA concludes the season at 9-1


CHAMPIONSHIP GAME SCORING

D & E PAINTING 42 :

C. Farrer 12
D. Farrer 9
Howland 9
Grady 3
Chalmers 3
Lapreste 2
Burton 2
Keefe 2

BOHICA 46:

McCann 15
Johnson 13
Vander Baan 9
Aldrich 7
Lindgren 2
Felper 0
Leonelli 0
Wood 0