Jesuit Marauders Win Metro League Championship by Flying Past the Falcons of Christian Brothers
by Sargon Benjamin

        Trying to imitate the previous Freshman and JV teams of Jesuit who defeated CB, the Varsity Marauder basketball squad hosted the Christian Brother Falcons in front of a full house on Friday night. Knowing that no seats were left in the stands and that the little theater was jampacked, both the Falcons and Marauders realized that they would have to put on a show for the huge crowd and they did just that. After the starting lineups were introduced, Jesuit got off to a great start when sophomore center for Jesuit, Maurice Tyree, won the jump ball followed by Cedrick Barrow getting 2 points off an easy lay-up. Jesuit got to an early 4-0 lead before the Falcons could get their first bucket of the game. But Maurice Tyree would not allow many shots to get past him in the middle and proved his point numerous times by blocking countless shots. But the Falcons would not give up and at the end of the first quarter, the scoreboard read 15-10 in favor of Jesuit.

        Then, in the second quarter, seniors P.J. McGahan and Brian Shaffer got into the action by playing strong defense and connecting on a couple of open shots from downtown. The first half ended with Jesuit on top 33-27. During the third quarter, it was all Jesuit with key supporters like sophomore Phil Rasmussen and and junior Roy Stigall backing up the team with baseline shots. Maurice did his job by capturing rebound after rebound allowing the Maruaders to capitalize on C.B.'s missed baskets. With a little bit of pride and strength left, C.B. bounced back into the game by scoring on some open three pointers and capitalizing on three point plays from the foul line. But it was too little too late, Jesuit would go on to win the game with great performances from Mike Fitts and Cedrick Barrow and smart coaching by Dean Meyers. The game was won and the score was 61-47; Jesuit style.