CENTAUR SEASONS: Their Coach Said We Played Them the Best Game — entry #27 from “A history of the events of the Allentown College’s 1972-1973 B-Ball season …

… AS CHRONICLED BY, AND WITH THE PERSONAL MEMOIRS + OCCASSIONAL PHILOSOPHIZING OF THE AUTHOR, ONE STEPHEN J. McKEE”

This CENTAUR SEASONS post was written forty years ago.

PREVIOUS GAME: Centaurs 61, Philadelphia Pharmacy 79, two days ago

NEXT GAME: Baptist Bible, tomorrow night, last game of the season

CENTAUR SEASON: 5-11

It was a completely different first half against Philadelphia Pharmacy than the first half of the first game against Philly Pharmacy on Feb. 24.

In fact, it was a completely different game all the way around.

(“Their Coach Said We Played Them the Best Game” continues below)

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WELCOME TO CENTAUR SEASONS.  “Their Coach Said We Played Them the Best Game” here on HoopsU.Com appears also on CENTAUR  SEASONS, a “memory blog” of the half-good, half-bad,  all-new Allentown College of St. Francis de Sales Centaurs in Center  Valley, Pennsylvana. Forty years ago Steve kept a diary of his junior-year season. A blog before its time then, “A History of the Events …”  is now an e-diary at CENTAUR SEASONS and here on HoopsU.com.

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We were down four at the half this time against Pharmacy, and we ended up losing by 17, but it was one of those games where the ending is always in doubt the entire way.

It was a rough game, too. A few bloody mouths and knees. Lots of elbows and pushin’ and boxin’.

Maybe not the best night for Parents’ Night. Oh, well.

But it was also a good game, I think.

In fact, one of the best games played by us as a team. Nobody really played super, whereas nobody played really bad.

Their big guy had eight points for the game – as opposed to 20 points last game. He scored 4 points on me, 4 on John Cooper. In the beginning of the second half they started going to him. He scored the first time — I was fronting him and they lobbed over my head. Coach told me to play behind him after that, and I blocked his next three shots. They didn’t go to him anymore after that.

Once again, Bobby Stormes got into a couple of tussles with players, and he almost got thrown out again.

So did Chris Cashman! I don’t think I have ever seen him as angry about a call. P.J. Brennan (The Kid) had to hold back Cash (The Old Man)!

After the game Coach Sabota told us the coach of Pharmacy told him after that we had just played them the roughest and best game of their season.

Some consolation, if nothing else.

We are now 3-and-2 in our “Third Season.”

And we got one last game on the schedule — Senior Night.

PREVIOUS GAME: Centaurs 61, Philadelphia Pharmacy, two days ago

NEXT GAME: Baptist Bible, tomorrow night, last game of the season

1972-73 CENTAUR SEASON Schedule and Results:

12-1-72  — at Lehigh CCC — W/81-71 — 1-0

12-4 — at Northampton CCC — W/87-50 — 2-0

12-6  — EASTERN BAPTIST — L/73-75 — 2-1

12-12 — SPRING GARDEN — L/54-66 — 2-2

12-16 — PHILLY BIBLE — L/72-79 — 2-3

1-18-73   — at Baptist Bible — L/82-84 — 2-4

1-19  — WILMINGTON — L/56-71 — 2-5

1-25  — at Philly Pharmacy — L/56-71 — 2-6

1-30  — at Spring Garden – L/64-69 — 2-7

2-3   — at Messiah College – L/47-76 — 2-8

2-6   — at  Wilmington — L/52/88 — 2-9

2-13  — RUTGERS, S. JERSEY – W/89-68 — 3-9 (but 1-0!)

2-16  — LEHIGH CCC – W/81-76 — 4-9 (but 2-0!)

2-20  — MESSIAH — L/58-64 — 4-10 (but 2-1!)

2-22  — NORTHAMPTON CC — W/86-65 — 5-10 (but 3-1!)

2-24  — PHILLY PHARMACY – L/61-79 — 5-11 (but 3-2!)

2-27 — BAPTIST BIBLE