SOXWIN!2005
Chillicothe-il-Pearce-Mustangs-1972-vs-Pekin-IL-Edison-panthers
Our only loss of the year. WE finished 22-1 and lost to Pekin IN Pekin IL by one on a long, LONG shot off a screen. Even with that, we managed the ball to half court with 2 seconds left, Tony Razo shot one that went down in and spun out. We got ripped off bad by REFS, 4 guys fouled out for us none for Pekin. Afterwards some bigger kids from Pekin High tried getting on our BUS after the game as we waited for everyone to get on. Our Health Teacher Ted Sterling was the only adult on the bus. He jumped up and said, What do you want? GET OUT OF HERE! They wanted to fight us, we had heard how dirty and violent Pekin was all the time. There were fights at Football games in the past between our high schools. They backed down the stairs still cussing and threatening us. SUDDENLY ..the Vice Principal of the School came flying by our bus windows, screaming ...YOU LITTLE !!.. he held both arms out and clothes-lined 3 kids at once knocking them all to the ground. He then apologized to us on the bus. The coaches and bus drivers showed up finally and wondered what the heck was going on. We vowed to make it to the STATE Tournament and beat Pekin down there after all this. Later we both made it there to STATE. Pekin IL was undefeated. They LOST their first game. WE went on to WIN it all. Won STATE and got the final laugh as we beat a heavily favored team that had beat 2 undefeated teams themselves. WE WIN! :0))
Chillicothe-il-Pearce-Mustangs-1972-vs-Pekin-IL-Edison-panthers
Our only loss of the year. WE finished 22-1 and lost to Pekin IN Pekin IL by one on a long, LONG shot off a screen. Even with that, we managed the ball to half court with 2 seconds left, Tony Razo shot one that went down in and spun out. We got ripped off bad by REFS, 4 guys fouled out for us none for Pekin. Afterwards some bigger kids from Pekin High tried getting on our BUS after the game as we waited for everyone to get on. Our Health Teacher Ted Sterling was the only adult on the bus. He jumped up and said, What do you want? GET OUT OF HERE! They wanted to fight us, we had heard how dirty and violent Pekin was all the time. There were fights at Football games in the past between our high schools. They backed down the stairs still cussing and threatening us. SUDDENLY ..the Vice Principal of the School came flying by our bus windows, screaming ...YOU LITTLE !!.. he held both arms out and clothes-lined 3 kids at once knocking them all to the ground. He then apologized to us on the bus. The coaches and bus drivers showed up finally and wondered what the heck was going on. We vowed to make it to the STATE Tournament and beat Pekin down there after all this. Later we both made it there to STATE. Pekin IL was undefeated. They LOST their first game. WE went on to WIN it all. Won STATE and got the final laugh as we beat a heavily favored team that had beat 2 undefeated teams themselves. WE WIN! :0))