“It’s two really good teams and it’s horribly unfortunate that only one gets to go to state.” “It’s just a bad situation,” Lumen Christi athletic director John Warren said. In a usual year, the Peninsula Conference would send its top two teams to state, but because of the pandemic the state tournament field was reduced from 16 teams to eight, and the Peninsula Conference was given one berth instead of two.Īfter much debate, Lumen Christi kept the championship and the tournament berth, and emotions remain high more than a week later. On the line was a spot in the Class 1A basketball tournament that begins Thursday in the Valley.Ĭlass 1A is the classification for Alaska’s tiniest schools, and making the tournament is momentous at places like Ninilchik (a Kenai Peninsula school with 35 students in grades 9-12) and Lumen Christi (an Anchorage parochial school with about 50 high school students). The clock should have started as soon as Tim Bennett touched the ball, but it didn’t.įrom the schools’ perspectives, the stakes could not have been higher. It was also a shot that should not have counted, according to the referees’ final report on the game, which noted “the ball was almost in the basket before the clock even started.” It was the kind of sensational, high-stakes miracle shot that makes basketball in March so thrilling. “The shot” is Brenden Gregory’s 3-point buzzer shot that lifted the Archangels past Ninilchik 72-71 in overtime on March 19 at Soldotna High School. The referees official report on the game agrees, saying “time should have started and it should have voided the shot.” Videos and photos show the clock didn’t start when it was supposed to in the final half-second of last week’s Peninsula Conference championship game between the Lumen Christi and Ninilchik boys basketball teams. A photo of the 3-point shot that decided the outcome of the Region 2 boys championship game shows that no time came off the clock after an inbounds pass was deflected by another player and caught by Lumen Christi's Brenden Gregory, whose basket gave his team a 72-71 win over Ninilchik at Soldotna High on Friday, March 19.
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