When
Clare was eight or nine, we went to the Berwyn Rec to talk to some of the people
who run the place. I wanted to make sure
my daughter could keep playing baseball because that’s what she wanted to
do. And the guys there said, OK.
One
of those guys is the basketball coach where Clare went to high school. Morton has this great underdog reputation—the
bungalow crowd isn’t supposed to be so good at sports, especially against the
well-heeled schools in the West Suburban Gold Conference. To beat Downers Grove South is to know how
David felt coming home after his fight with Goliath.
The
basketball team has been pretty good for the last eight years or so. This season, they made it all the way to sectionals,
eliminating the defending state champs in the process. After a game this week, one of the players told
the Tribune, “Coach has been yelling at me to crash the boards. I never do.
I just sit there and watch. I
finally did it because I knew we needed it, and after that dunk [that
highlighted an 18-1 run late in the game], I knew the [home] crowd was into it.”
One of the graduating
seniors is going to Harvard, and the above game took out St. Ignatius. Every David in every Berwyn bungalow should
feel proud.
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