Personal Narrative: Blanket

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“Take a spot on the pine, Blanket.” Ah, the lovely welcome from the 6’ 8” Coach Bishop to the basketball game. He called me the name Blanket because my name’s Ben Lankfer, which can go to Blankfer, which sounds like Blanket. Makes sense, somewhat, not really. Basketball season...full of great memories. All the practices have been for this moment. Now, not to brag but I played a lot; a lot of left bench. Afterall, this was my first year playing basketball, and let's face it, I was horrible. I had the most spirit, but not enough talent. We had several games before this game, but this game was unlike the others. This game was against probably the best team in the GRACEAC, Immaculate Heart of Mary (IHM.) We started off with the classic…show more content…
The first quarter starts ticking down from 8 minutes. “Swoosh.” Just like that, IHM scored. We started coming down the court (not me actually, Full Metal Jacket) and “Swoosh.” IHM got the ball and scored, again. It was a battle that we could not win. Until we rebounded the game, and scored 4 times. The score was now 8-4. It was looking pretty good actually. In fact, by halftime the score 16-6. Just remember, I haven't gone in…show more content…
Lets just say IHM’s halftime speech must’ve been a little more inspirational because IHM came out with a punch. That punch hit us straight in the gut and basically disabled us. At the end of my four minutes of playing time (under GRACEAC rules, we only had to play for four minutes, at times Coach Bishop brought a timer to make sure we didn’t go over our four minutes) the score was 16-14. IHM had recovered. The first line went back into the game. This game was definitely demanding all the energy we could supply, or at least the first line. At the end of the of the third quarter, the score was 20-22, IHM leading. It was anyone’s game at this point. Most people say the most suspenseful part of the game is the longest, but when you’re sitting on the bench for it, it goes by pretty quickly. I was not out for the whole quarter though. In fact, I went in for one minute and magically scored. I was on the free throw line and I’m pretty sure my teammate, Dylan, mistook me for someone good and passed it to me. My adrenaline was pumping and as soon as the ball released from my hand, time slowed down until you heard the faint swoosh of the basketball net. I and everybody in the gym were surprised. We weren’t surprised however when IHM got the ball back, brought it down the court, scored, and I had to go back to left
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