It’s a special relationship that we have, and I’m very thankful to represent this university.” “When they heard I was struggling with my ACT test, and my scores, that phone stopped ringing, the letters stopped coming, and Marquette stayed through it all. Marquette gave me an opportunity that a lot of people didn’t want to give me. So to hear those words, and to say I’m the first to hope I’m not the last,” Wade said Friday. A lot of people like Coach Crean promised me a scholarship, but didn’t even know he can give me a scholarship because Marquette has never took a Prop 48. I was academically ineligible my first year. “But this isn’t’ the final goal, we have to go back to practice, regroup and get ready to go on.Wade, a first-ballot inductee, is the first Marquette player to be elected to the Hall of Fame. “It’s a great win for us,” Spurlock said. Seven Lakes advances to play Cy-Fair in the Class 6A area round, time and date to be determined. KK Tucker also played a big part in the win with 13 points and four other players chipped in with four points to help the Spartans advance. We didn’t execute as perfectly as we would have liked, but we stayed calm enough to push the lead back to nine and make it more comfortable.”Ĭarlton finished the night with 23 points, 16 rebounds and four blocks, while Halphen had six points, and 13 rebounds. “I was just extremely proud more than anything of the fact that when Elkins came rallying back, we stayed calm. “When somebody comes at you, you have to be able to respond to that,” said Seven Lakes head coach Angela Spurlock. “We struggled a little bit at times, but we picked it up as the game went on.”Įlking went on a big run to open the third quarter and continued to trim things to single digits.īut every time the Knights got within five points of Seven Lakes, the Spartans would go on a mini run of their own to extend the lead, and this trend continued as Seven Lakes worked its way to the victory in the fourth. “The first half, we really dominated rebounding, that was what got us ahead was being so good with rebounding,” Carlton said. Seven Lakes led 11-6 after the first quarter and used a strong second to make it a 17 point lead heading into the half as the Spartans jumped on Elkins early. This is really what we were trying to do.” “It’s really a proud moment for us, we worked so hard for this and we wanted it so badly. “It means everything to get this win,” said senior forward Summer Halphen. Seven Lakes came away with a 58-47 win in a scrappy game to advance to the area round, winning their first playoff win in four years. Everyone was just excited to get on the court and have another opportunity.” Some of them have been counting down the days to get another chance, especially after last year’s bi-district game where we blew the lead to Ridge Point. “They’ve wanted to have a chance at this moment for a long time. “These seniors have been here for a while and they’ve been waiting for this moment,” said sophomore forward Justice Carlton. This year, facing Fort Bend Elkins, the Spartans knew that it would be just as hard a task to advance, but were ready for the challenge. The Spartans had lacked a playoff win in each of the previous three seasons, despite making the playoffs each year. Seven Lakes was anxious to get the monkey off its back.
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