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Show ' 7T7 JUST STUFF Iv BY Jf?N VL It was a heart breaker. I didn't see the game, but I heard about it. And, since my loyalties lie with the Wildcats, heart breaker is the only way to describe the game. It's hard to lose any game, but it's even harder when you're playing for the suite championship. And it's even more difficult to lose when you're the defending state champs two years running. Realizing that no game is easy lo lose, I have often wondered liieh type of game is the least difficult to lose: The kind of game in which the score is close only a point or two separates the winners from the losers; or a game in which the spread is immense? The kind of game in which one team can obviously dance circles around the other team; or the kind of game in which the teams are equally matched? The kind of game in which one team admits defeat before the starting start-ing buzzer; or one in which both teams try their hardest, play their best and one proves victorious? J The kind of game where there is one or two strong players who win or lose it for the team; or the kind of game in which the team is a team, win or lose? We've all lost at games in our lives, and while there may have been some consolation in knowing that we did our best and played our hardest, losing is still a painful proposition. The Wildcats know they played a good game. They couldn't have tried any harder. Deep dov a they also know the Spartans played a good game and they couldn't have played any harder. They arc two excellent teams who were pitted against each other-there other-there had to be a winner. While there may not be much consolation in the fact that the Wildcats played a good game and did their best or that the Spartans got lucky on 'the 3 pointer at die buzzer, but I'm still proud to say I'm a Wildcat and I'm proud of the team. You put up heck of a fight. You're champs at heart guys. Way to g0i lamps at |