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Show una J y st and nine boards of his own. "I'm 200 and a whole lot of change, and Keith Hilltop Times staff is a pretty big boy too, so nobody on There's an old saying in basketball, this base should really be able to stop you can't coach height, and, as Force us. And that was the case today." Neither team held a decisive edge at 99 learned in the intramural summer league championship game, sometimes half time, with Just Do It up by only six but Just Do It came out with' at you can't defend against it either. The Just Do It team capped an unde- pressure and purpose on defense in feated season by beating the 99ers the second half, forcing two quick Each possession, Just Do It kept; turnovers and scoring two baskets to going down into the paint to their twin push the lead to 10. It was a lead center Jeffrey Blue they would hold onto until the 4:30 monsters, 240 and pound power.forward mark. 99er team captain and former Idaho Keith Brooks. Even though the.99er defenders played good, solid, even State point guard Ed Thompson decided hard-nosedefense, they just didn't to take the weight of his team on his have the size to contend with their shoulders and the threes began to fall opponent under the boards. The two like rain from the sky. Thompson hit s to chop big men accounted for 31 of their team's ! "V.V ,."',.: 61 total points and 19 of their team's the lead to just six. "I guess we'd been waiting all game 31 rebounds. Y ... seawhole it for "We've been doing the that," said 99er guard Dan Kerns, ' son," said Brooks, who finished with who finished with seven points. 17 points and 10 rebounds. "The main thing was just trying to a game-higso we "It's worked for us, just stuck get back into the game," Thompson said. "We thought if I could hit a couwith it." "That's the way it's supposed to be," ple or three threes, we could sneak Blue agreed, who compiled 14 points back into it." 29-2- 61-4- p : ;; - three-pointer- ; ; h ' n" ; 6. back-tb-bac- k Cornell Hanner, who had but Hanner and guard T McCleave, gone scoreless in the second half up who tallied six points and eight assists, to to that point, stepped up. Having been including a circus trick alley-ooon leave for a week, he was struggling Brooks with less than a minute remainto shake off some rust, but when he ing, each knocked down two free throws saw Thompson sagging into the lane to hold off any comeback. "They did a fantastic job the whole ltd double on the big men, he raised a game," Kerns said of the Just Do It confidently from 21 feet and buried three-poin- t dagger into the heart of team. "They crashed the boards, got the opposing team. The game was all the loose balls, a lot of layups. They than we were, were just a step quicker never in contention after that. ' ' "I was thinking that this man must today." "We're just a little out of synch," said not know I can shoot too," Hanner said. Keith "He was trying to double down on Thompson, who finished the game with 15 points on five and Blue. He was just giving me the a team-hig"We came out flat. We were open shot,' so I was just going to put of kind sluggish. The chemistry just it in." The big men went back to work at wasn't there today. Hopefully, we'll that point, with Brooks and Blue scor- come back stronger next year." k With the victory, Just Do It suchoops inside. ing "They were devastating today," Han- cessfully defended last year's summer, ner said. "I don't think anybody can league championship, having gone guard big Keith, and I don't think any- undefeated through last year's league one can guard Blue either. They're as well. "Whatever it took to win, that's all I both just big monsters down there, big boys playing tough in the paint. Our wanted," Blue said. 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