Summit vs Weequahic 2/28/2000

  1st 2nd 3rd 4th TOTAL
Summit 10 14 10 20 54
Weequahic 10 15 20 8 53

Player SHOTS FG 3PT FTA FTM POINTS REBs
Kurt Forsyth 15 4 1 6 6 17 5
Gereno Tan 9 2 2 2 2 12 1
Lamar Freeman 8 5 0 0 0 10 6
Ryan Carey 8 2 0 3 3 7 4
Jon Campagna 6 2 0 3 2 6 3
John Martini 1 0 0 2 2 2 0
Dan Dugan 3 0 0 0 0 0 4
Jason Holmes 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Ted Schrafft 1 0 0 0 0 0 2
Game Totals 51 15 3 16 15 54 25
Wow! With about 3 minutes left in the game Summit was behind by 11 points, 49-38. Most of the fans were pretty discouraged and were about to give up hope. The rally started with a basket by Kurt Forsyth, but it got into high gear when Gereno Tan drained a 3 pointer. Suddenly the lead was down to seven. After a Weequahic free throw, Forsyth sank two from the free throw line to make it a 6 point game. Weequahic hit half of a 1 and 1, but Tan answered with another 3-pointer. Now Summit was within 3 points and what had seemed impossible was now possible. After Weequahic missed the front end of a 1 and 1, Forsyth hit a field goal to pull Summit to within 1 point. Again Weequahic missed the front end of a 1 and 1, and Lamar Freeman (who had a great defensive 4th quarter) scored to give Summit its first lead of the night with 25 second left in the game. The Summit high went to a low when Weequahic got a layup to retake the lead with only 5 seconds left in the game. Summit hustled the ball downfield trying to find a shot. The ball came to Tan in the corner with 1 second on the clock. He barely got the shot off before the buzzer. We held our breath and, swish, it went in. The large turnout of students poured on to the floor and mobbed the happy Summit players. It was a night to remember.

Summit got an assist from Weequahic who was able to hit only four of its thirteen 4th quarter foul shots. For the game Weequahic hit 14 of 27 foul shots. In contrast, Summit had a great night at the foul stripe, hit 15 of 16. Summit hit on only 18 of 51 (35%) shots from the field but their free throw shooting made up the difference. Forsyth led the scoring with 17 points, Tan finished with 12 points (8 in the 4th quarter), and Freeman picked 10 points and led the team in rebounds with 6