C?'owd cn t h n s iasHl. is e:.;c lIl.plijied by the reac t ions vi Bob
Shin' and. r:m'o lc Ha. aland 10ith Coa.eli [, u i1 dgaunl,
Team cOllgl'atulntions fo r tlw Coach and Tvm
a:I'e s ito'Um altel' the gam.e,
E1no tio1�S are p01�trayed i1� victory a1�d defeat . . L u te basketball i n 1 9 62-6:3 occ as i o n e d Ill a ny
t h r i l l i ng games ; but probably the most " h eart stopping" of them all was the fourth UPS game played at PLU, which the Lutes w o n in the last few seconds, 84 to 83. The bi� h e l'o of t h i s �ame w a s Torn Whalen a n d "Oh, h o w
everyone loved Tom ! " PLU was beh i n d ,
83
to 8 2 ,
with thi rteen seconds to go, The Lutes cal led time Ollt t o m a p the i r strategy, They b rought the ball downcourt and passed it to M a rv over in the comeI'. It looked like a long, one-handel' by Fl'eddie, but j ust
as
h e started to shoot, he
fli pped a pass ,in to Tom at the centel' key , B i g Tom , a b o u t twelve feet o u t a.nd closely g u a rd e d , s p u n ancl let go a l o n g a rching j U lll p e r
t h a t s"v i shed t h r o u g h t h e n e t w i th t w o se c o n d s to go caus i n g 2,700 f r e nz i e d fans
to g'o "out
of t h e i l' m i nds" i n utter d i sbel ief, Th i R game gave the L u tes a 3-to-l season edge over
a n d g av e u s the City College
Basketball Champ i on s h i p
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