McAlister's Deli Game Summary - Week 8

Patriot League Bombers 57
Forecasted Showers 50

Both teams were missing their best players on Tuesday afternoon. PBL was playing without their star John Griffin and Forecasted Showers without Edmound Elzy. PBL used a combination of hustle, scrappy defense and solid shooting from Graham Neuburger to send Forecasted Showers to their 6th loss of the season with a 57-50 victory.

Eric Flatt tried to get his team fired up and was much more vocal than in past games. One person on the sideline compared this to when Michael Jordan retired and Scottie Pippen had to take over the Bulls. Flatt is the Pippen of this team and the pressure was all on Flatt’s shoulders. Jason Rost and Bob Herzog stepped their games as they scored 18 and 16 respectively. But in the end, the 1-2-3 combo of Neuburger, Stutzman and Neff proved to be too much for Forecasted Showers to handle as Neff scored 17 and Stutzman scored 14.


3-Peat 69
Baton Jacks 58

Before Tuesday’s game the injury ridden 3-Peat team signed Free Agent Steve Reitan to a 10-day contract. Despite the signing, 3-Peat still only fielded 4 players when they took on Baston Jacks Tuesday. However, 4 players proved to be all they needed as 3-Peat blew out Baton Jacks 69-58 to remain in a first place tie with PBL. Alex Montagano started off the scoring by hitting three 3 pointers in the first 5 minutes. Montagano ended up with 31 points on 7 for 10 shooting from behind the arch.

Baston Jacks played for the second week without All-Star center Pat Sullivan. They struggled to defend the quickness of 3-Peat. “We obviously missed the big guy in the middle today’’, said Alan Mowrey

Mowrey scored 23 points and Jason McGuinness scored 17 in a losing cause.