Basketball Team Handles Ryan 61-51

I don’t know if it was the weather or just a lazy Tuesday night after the holidays, but tonight’s game was one big yawn. It had none of the excitement of last season’s championship game. The Falcons were up by 20 at half time and by as much as 30 during parts of the second half. The only excitement was all of the turnovers by the Falcons in the fourth quarter (15 of the team’s 24), which allowed Ryan to escape with a respectable 10 point deficit.

The only other notable event in this game was when “Roc” Christmas got his second technical foul, which removed him from the game after only 9 minutes of playing time, and disqualifies him from Friday night’s game at St Joe Prep. The first of the two technical was for grabbing the rim when a Xavier Harris shot bounced on the rim. The ball went in and there was some traffic under the backboard, so Roc seemed to grab the rim to prevent a fall onto other players. The ref saw it differently, and Roc was assessed a technical foul. The refs have a tough job out there, so we’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.

Editor’s Note: Our staff photographer couldn’t make it to the game tonight, so we have no pictures. Rumor has it that he stopped by one of the local watering holes and forgot about the game. Yes, he will be replaced before the next game.

Did You Notice
……….Taylor Rand was back in form singing the National Anthem before the game. By the way, you can check out Taylor’s music video here Taylor Rand's Music Video
….The Flag in the Pit is now on the east wall, next to the scoreboard. In recent seasons, it was covering the Falcon Nest (no relation) in the southwest corner of the gym. That space is now used for filming and is now the announcer’s box.
….Tom “Hockey Puck” McKenna, the stat guy for North, wears two pair of glasses while doing stats. Why? I have no friggin idea.
….Mike Kaiser, along with Mike Jr, handled the announcing duties from the Falcon Nest window.

Faces in the Crowd
….Superfan Ed White, who makes it to many Falcon games….
Superfan Tim Murphy, again with lovely daughter Erin. Erin passed on the opportunity to sell 50-50 tickets
.….Sitting with the Murphys was Soccer assistant and fellow blogger, Tom Crossett, who was sporting a soccer championship shirt
.….John Musial was in the alumni section (by the way, that would be the section in the northeast corner, next to the steps
.….From the class of 1988, Ken Florkowski and Jeff Rzepczynski. Jeff was working the ticket table in the cafeteria.
….Former teacher and NC baseball Hall of Famer, Larry Conti, was in the house for the game.