I also manage to grab a rebound, but a nasty fall on the second play puts me on the sidelines the rest of the game. We lose 15-13. The Alley Katz go on to win their sixth consecutive title. But winning isn't everything. On a hot Saturday morning, basketball at the Bay Ball Ballyhoop presents a kind of unbalanced equality.
Some players are swifter, smarter, better shooters.
All 1,500 souls are trying to be the best. But, though the players in the men's and women's open divisions might not realize it, they are hooping it up at Bay Ball for people like Flowers, Spain and Hardeman. All of the proceeds from the event benefit the Special Olympics. Flowers has already benefited. Last year he won a gold medal in track and field.