While I was sitting in my dreaded Trig class with Santi and Rocco, we watched the seminarians walk past the door to warm up in the gym. After they walked by Rocco said, “We might be in trouble.”
Of course I would be nervous too if we were facing a once college basketball player. But when I was walking into the gym, the crowd buzzed with anticipation, the sneakers were squeaking against the polished hardwood, and the sound of the rims during our warmup dunks. We all knew that it would be tough, all the Seminarians were disciplined, but I mean all they have to do to is sit at the seminary and play basketball. So needless to say we were gonna have a hard time against these Super Seminarians.
The game tipped off and we started out strong with our senior Roman Elliot hitting two back to back 3’s. Ultimately finishing with 12 points. We fed off that energy, hustling hard, pushing the tempo, crashing the boards and whooping the seminarians in the rebounds. For a moment, we thought we had control of the situation. But the Seminarians weren’t rattled for very long. They regrouped, slowed the game down, and executed with the kind of composure that’s hard to shake. Its easy to say that they had God on their side for this game.
As they drove down the court they made a slow come back, through all the trash talk and everything that we were throwing in the Seminarians heads they seemed to be masters at blocking it out because it didn’t effect them one bit. When the final buzzer rang out we were gravely disappointed knowing that we ultimately ended up losing this game. With this in mind we should keep our basketball players in shape and ready to go for the Seminarians to come walking on our turf in years to come.
