Champions

Spent most of last week in Pendleton. Long beautiful drive down the Gorge, with no time to stop and take any pictures, took plenty while I was at the 2A tourney, plenty. Shot every game in the tourney, 22 games in all. I was happy with most of the stuff I shot, although I got a little burnt out the last day, the championship games. Kinda felt Like I had shot everything there was to shot and everything was looking the same. This shot was different though. This is from the 2A Boys championship game, Santiam Christian vs Oakland. Santiam was ahead most of the game, and by 9 or so points most of the time it seemed. Oakland would battle back and get close and Santiam would extend the lead again. Somehow with a minute or so to go and Santiam seemily comfortably ahead, Oakland dropped in a couple of 3 pointers and were all of a sudden down bu 3 three with a couple of seconds to go. Anyway they made a 3 as time expired, true March maddness stuff, and that's when I took this shot. The funny thing about the shot is that I caught the Oregonians photogs strobes and lit the whole scene up quite nicely for me. The kid who made the 3 is being hugged by #15 in white, center right of the pic. Oakland went on to win in double OT.