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WPCNR PRESS BOX. March 13, 2007: The Journal News has announced its selections for All-Section, naming White Plains basketball players Kim Adams, Liz Flooks and Angelei Aguirre to the League IA All-Section Team and naming Flooks an Adams Most Valuable Player. Sue Adams, their Coach has been named Coach of the Year for mentoring the Tigers to their third consecutive Section 1 Championship. To commemorate this unprecedented achievement, we turn to the bard of the pressbox, the Grantland Rice of White Plains, Hoops Hardwood:
Tigers of the Golden Ball
By Hoops Hardwood
Three times the Tigresses climbed to the Top
Thrashing all competition from Section to Section.
Three years they thrilled with last minute stop
Now we will no more to the gym again to see the cream of the crop.
For Adams and Flooks and Mcquire,
The Tigers of hoop savoire
Have made their last run
Their valiant effort has at last been done.
From the flamboyant crashing of boards
Convergence on cage
Of Flooks and Adams grabbing bound after bound
Popping in putbacks with grace and aplomb.
Three times they held Golden Ball
Of Excellence high holding us enthrall
With comeback and heart
In contests tempestuous, they now must part.
Gone separate ways to their futures they must,
Leaving behind pictures on WPHS walls.
Future Tigers will gaze upon and remember
When playing in the Tigers den caused Koala and Knight to Tremble.
Snapshots of glory unfold in minds eye
Of spectacular shot and clawing defense
Of unselfish play and pressure intense
As quintette of Tiger Cubs made us sigh and cry.
Denied supremacy at state
Three times by fickle twists of fortune late
Hearts hardened by the indifference of
The hardwood road they showed how to handle fate.
From swooping Kim with the long Texas reach and dagger jumper
Delivering the clutch run when the Tigers were in trouble
To Liz’s leaps to snare a tricky bound and burst the opposition’s bubble
To the Angel of the Glass – Aguirre the igniter – the backboard bumper
Teaming with the passionate Paige stepping up the tempo on a Spree.
With Bree and company stepping in, the Angel and the Paige
Inherit the Adams and Flooks legacy
To build anew the Tiger dynasty.
So here’s to the Tigers of the Golden Ball
Of memories in the hot gyms on cold nights,
Of musty practices and the bounce of the
Fickle orange rock, all who saw them remember the highlights.
To Liz and Kim, and Angelei and Paige and Lauren
Thanks for the memories for though you have fallen,
We remember the furious desire, the comebacks and the putbacks
The defense that would not quit, you have set the standard for Tigers All.
In our mind’s eye we will always see you in your glory:
The steal and the no-look pass. The second and third follows.]
The toughness, the heart. The come-out-and-get you dee.
Though we must part making way for future Tigers of the Golden Ball.
On some future day on a stroll down the WPHS Wall of Fame,
We shall look at your picture, seeing the bright promise, the supreme achievers.
Reminding us forever of the time when your Tiger five played the game,
Giving it all you had and setting a standard to which all would aspire.