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Wow, what a night! Congrats, Central!

Mar 16th, 2008 by Hector Longo

OK, a couple final thoughts before calling it a night here.
Adrian’s final numbers (Sorry it wasn’t earlier coach Leavitt) 28 points on 11 of 15 shooting, 12 boards, five assists, four steals and a couple blocks.
And he added all the intangibles, guts, grit, determination. It was a performance to stake a career on.

Great crowd on both sides. Central showed itself admirably, as it did throughout the tournament.

Congrats to EJ Perry and Salem, too. What an accomplishment, going back to back. And both All-Class L performers, Jones and Kimball, return.
Can you say three-peat?

If you like tourney hoop, check out The Sunday Eagle-Tribune and even more on Monday.

Congrats to the champs. Congrats to the Andover girls for such a classy and successful season.

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  • Carolina_Transplant
    Hec,

    Please tell your readers that the only thing worse than MA high school basketball is NH high school basketball. MA puts out a legit player once every 10-15 years. NH hangs its hat on Matt Bonner. Big deal.

    By the way, how would the current CCHS team stack up against an Al Bergun led 1983 team ?
  • Hector Longo
    Hey Carolina kid, relax will ya.
    I just picked up my Sports Illustrated and I'm looking at UConn's Jeff Adrien on the cover. You may remember Adrien. He's the guy from Brookline, who singlehandedly took out Central at the Garden a couple years ago. He had like 32, 16 rebounds and seven blocks.
    I'll always remember that night, because a friend of mine, who I'm sure wouldn't know good hoop if he saw it, said, "Eh, he's all right," after Adrian scored 26 of his 32 in the second half.
    Mass. hoops is better than the respect it gets. And NH is getting better every year.
    I thought Chip McDonald was the leader of that 1983 team anyway.
  • Nugget
    I think both of you may forget Scott Hazleton from Central. He was dominating Massachusetts as a Sophmore, averaging about 30 points a game his Junior and Senior seasons, leading Central To the state title. Also was a McDonalds All American, and filled the gym with D-1 recruiters from every great basketball school, including Duke and UConn. He went to UConn on a full scholarship. He would be playing in the NBA right now, but he broke his leg his Senior season and his game was never the same after that. He Had limited playing time at UConn, transfered to URI, then went on to play professionally in Europe.
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