Red Team makes epic comeback, wins by one

If there was a team that could come back from 16 points, it would be the St. Mary's 8th grade Red Team. And come back they did.

After a disastrous first half where offense and defense were missing, the 8th grade Red Team erased a 16 point, 24-8 halftime deficit, and managed to pull out an epic come from behind 36-35 victory in their first game of the year.

Right off the tip, the 8th grade looked rusty, turning the ball over three times, leading to an early 6-0 hole. They were slow getting back on defense and were dominated in every facet of the game.

They picked it up and gave themselves a glimmer of hope when the Red Team started the third quarter on an 8-0 run, which cut the lead down to 8 points.

Even with their blitz at the beginning of the second half, more lapses in defense and turnovers put the 8th graders back down 30-16 to start the 4th quarter. It was beginning to look like it just wasn't their day.

At that point in the game, the sleeping giant we call Miles woke up and the turnaround began.

Nobody could stop Miles. He grabbed rebound after rebound and scored basket after basket. He played like a man on a mission that wouldn't take no for an answer.  After the game, he said he knew his team was going to come back to win it. And if anybody doubted him, Miles proved he meant what he said with his play down the stretch.

St. Mary's went on a furious run, scoring a total of 20 points in the final seven minutes -- Miles accounted for 12 of them.

Jeremy hit two clutch 3-pointers in the 4th, including one that cut a 5 point lead to 2 with a little over two minutes to play.

Then Miles went back to work and hit a shot to tie the game, and then later gave St. Mary's their first lead of the game with a little over a minute to go.

The other team got within one on a free-throw and went ahead on a turnover in the back court. With 30 seconds left to play, guess whose number was called again?

Number 51.

The ball went to Miles, and he hit perhaps his longest shot in two years to give the Red Team the one point lead.

After a defensive stop, Michael Ng was fouled and went to the line for a one-in-one with a chance to ice the game. He missed the first free throw and the Red Team would need to win the game with defense.

With 4.6 seconds left, the inbounds pass got by Jeremy to a player on other team, who missed short on his mid-range jumper. Jeremy corralled the rebounds and the game was over.