We're in the Final Four!!

Here at UNC, the words "final four" are magical. While it's too early to really talk about Roy taking Tyler and the boys to the real final four, I'm excited to announce that HPAA is in the university wide co-ed intramural semi-finals. If we win tonight then we play in the championship game on Monday.

It's a great league of 4-4 bball (2 guys/2 girls on the court at all times). It's been a fun road to this point in which we are technically still undefeated. In our 3 games of league play we staged a late comeback in which Gabe hit a dramatic shot to put us within reach, and then I hit a last second shot from the post to end the game in a tie (no overtime). We won big in our second game and had to forfeit the third because not enough people could make it.

We earned a bye from the first round of the 50+ team tournment, but then had to play a really tough team of juniors and seniors. Morris and Brad carried our team and we held off each of their rallies to end the game up by three.

The sweet sixteen game was a comfortable beating of the team we beat earlier in the season, but they were a lot of fun to play with. The elite 8 game last night was incredibly dramatic. While it was close the whole time, we managed to maintain a 4-6 lead for the entire second half. That is, until one of their girls closed her eyes and banked in an incredible three pointer to tie the game(from a foot behind the line). We couldn't get a good shot on the inbound play and would have to try to take the lead and hold them for five more minutes. I was pleased with my contribution, as I made a layup and later a free throw that gave us a 3 point lead with less than 90 seconds left. Of course they managed to tie it up again, and for whatever reason ended up fouling Lauren pretty hard. It couldn't have been more dramatic: 5 seconds left, tie game in overtime, 2 free throws. The first one rimmed out, but she nailed the second one. They quickly got the ball up court and ended up with a great shot at the basket. Fortunately for us, they missed their layup (that would have knocked us out of the tourney) and we lived to see another day.