International Game

May 26th, 2007 Chulucanas, Peru

Chulucanas vs. USA

A group of students from a prep school in Pennsylvania is in Chulucanas doing a service project before graduating from high school next week. They came to watch the basketball games the night before and told me they were playing in a game Sunday afternoon sponsored by the local church as a fund raiser. They asked me to play with their team as it was being advertised as a States vs. Chulucanas game. I soon found out why they were so desperate to have me play with them. I didn’t think you could find a group of 15 American seniors in high school this bad. They had one guy who played for their high school team. The Peruvians thought they were going to smoke us. I thought so too.

Until this guy named Mack went unconscious. He ended up shooting 9 for 14 from the 3 point line. His 31 points coupled with my 15 allowed us to squeak by with a 6 point win.