Wheel Chair Basketball
Wheel Chair Basketball
By Alejandro De Alba
The Rolling Chariots a team of disabled basketball players played the Taft College Cougars a team of staff and faculty. The crowd was pumped up and ready to explode with kids from the neighboring elementary schools. The Cougars won the opening tip off, but after that, it was all down hill.
The Cougars looked strong on the opening tip, but once the first shot of the game was taken, the Chariots took control and never let up. The crowd went nuts after every basket made by the Chariots, and it didn’t end until the final whistle of the first half. The first half was over and the Chariots were leading 12-0 that looked like a statement being made from opening whistle.
Once the second half started, the Cougars started to play a little better defense and by defense I mean holding on to the opposing teams wheel chair so they couldn’t get past them and had to pass the ball around. But, even that didn’t work because the Chariots managed to put good string of passes together to just lay the ball up for and easy basket. At the end, the Rolling Chariots were the big winners.
I spoke to Bill Devine after the game and asked him how many years has he been participating, and he said “7 years now, and that it is too fun not to be apart of.” He even mentioned that the “games remind him of the Harlem Globe Trotters playing their archrivals the Generals because of how one sided the game is every year.”
So in the end the Rolling Chariots defeated the Taft College Cougars 18-0.