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By Gaylen Duskey
realfang@citlink.net
Some Clay fans were chanting "air ball, air ball, air ball" after a Calhoun
missed shot early in the game.
It is the lamest basketball cheer of all time but what could you say since
it was an air ball and Clay was up 24-2 at the time?
Then near the end of the game those same Clay fans started the "na, na, na,
hey, hey goodbye" cheer. It was a good cheer in 1968 when the song was
popular, but since then it has become the second lamest basketball cheer of
all time.
But what could you say since Clay was driving the final nails in a 78-32
shellacking of the Red Devils?
What you could say was that Calhoun never quit. It was never in the game,
but it never rolled over and played dead for the Panthers either.
Clay jumped on the Red Devils early and rolled to a 15-0 lead before Tyler
Shartiger scored with :35.2 remaining in the first quarter.
The next time Calhoun scored Clay was ahead 24-2. Matt Houchin's basket cut
the margin to 20, but it was only the second period.
That was the last time the Red Devils were within 20 points of Clay but they
never quit.
Unfortunately things never got any better.
Clay rolled to a 40-12 halftime lead. It was 63-21 after three quarters when
Calhoun cleared the bench and sent the subs in to finish things off.
Tommy Gerwig led Calhoun, 1-11, with seven while Houchin and Lucas Morford
added five apiece.
Michael Joseph and J.J. Bremar added three each while
Shartiger and Andrew Norman with two each rounded out the scoring.
Steven Meadows led Clay, 5-7, with 21.
Clay also won the junior varsity game 58-42 despite the efforts of Jacob
Dodd with 11 and Michael Sullivan with 10. John Dodd added nine and Lucas
Morford eight.
Calhoun will try to get back on the winning track Friday night on the road
at Braxton County.
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