Hanna coach Barney Brown went to the storage room to switch the teams' black jerseys for white ones Friday, he found four Pepsi Holiday Invitational runner up trophies lying around.
That's how much Brown and his team values second place.
So it's safe to say after the Jackets' 61 38 finals win over city rival Westside Friday in front of 1,200 fans at the Anderson Civic Center, Brown might want to find a prominent place to display the championship hardware.
"This is a pretty good one to get," Brown said with a grin.
The Jackets (7 4) had lost in the finals the last two years to Wade Hampton before Friday. Brown was expecting similar drama to the overtime championship game his played in last season, but he got a complete game from his team in a showdown that wasn't in question after halftime.
Jameel Taylor scored 18 points and Hassain Handy added 16 against a Rams defense that had been particularly stingy this season.
"We expected to see their man to man, which they've been so good in all season, but they came at us in zone," Brown said. "Once we got the lead we figured we might as well try to pull them out of it."
On the other side, Westside (8 3), which posted its Dt5FW6a9x lowest scoring output of the season, wasn't shocked to see a zone from Hanna, but couldn't figure out what to do against it.
"I know that was coming. We're going to face a lot of zones where they're going to force us to make shots," Rams coach Brian Williams said. "That's where we need to practice. Wren's going to zone us, Easley's Cheap NFL College Football Jerseys going to zone us and then we're going to play Hanna again and they're going to zone us. That's not unexpected."
In the first half, the Rams battled back from an early 9 3 deficit to pull within two on a Lamarcus Terry 3 pointer.
Hanna then outscored their rival 14 4 the rest of the half led by 11 points from Taylor. He knocked down a three from the wing after Zach Durkee kept the possession alive and Handy added a basket in transition to put the Jackets up 23 12 with 2:49 left in the half.
After converting three free throws, Handy got to the rim with 2 seconds to go to push the lead to 28 16.
Westside never got closer than nine points when Terry Gilbert drove the lane and kicked out to Quinton Gillard, who had 10 points, for a three, cutting the lead to 32 23 with 5:20 left in the third.
The question cheap nfl jerseys authentic now is whether or not this is the type of win to catapult Hanna into region play? And, by contrast, is this the type of loss that derails Westside's season?
There is precedent for these questions. Three years ago, the Jackets knocked off the Rams in overtime during the finals and went on to win the first region game against their rival at home. However, Hanna lost a defacto region championship game at home on the last day of the regular season.
Williams doesn't believe his squad is the type of team to fold after one big shot to the gut.
"We cheap custome jerseys from china lost to our rival. It hurts and it's supposed to," he said. "The biggest challenge now is are we the Westside that's going to let its season be over because we lost to our rival, or the Westside that's going to keep winning because we got beat and we want to get better? I really think that this team wants to be that team that proves all the naysayers wrong."
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