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Knights dump Hathaway Brown in game delayed two days by snowstorm
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
COLUMBUS — It was a long, mostly fun weekend.
The Alter High School girls basketball team had a lot of activities in Columbus. There was splashing around their hotel water park, playing board games, eating at restaurants, watching a movie, going to Mass, practicing and, oh yeah, playing in the Division II state championship game.
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"For a little bit, we were getting kind of sick of each other — just trapped in our hotel," Alter junior Mary Bruner said of the snowstorm that delayed the state tourney. "But by the end of it, we were just all happy to be with each other and we knew what we had to do."
What the Knights did Monday, March 10, was win their first girls state hoops title — a 60-46 victory over Hathaway Brown at the Schottenstein Center.
"It's wonderful," Alter coach Christina Hart said. "What a great accomplishment for our program."
Ashley Christie scored 20 points while Nicole Christie and Bruner added 12 apiece for the 25-3 Knights.
It was a long, strange trip between Thursday's semifinal win and Monday's title. And while the girls limited basketball discussion during the delay, it was to be Topic No. 1 on the bus ride home.
"I'm not doing homework," Bruner said. "We're not going to stop talking about this."
