On Saturday afternoon, the Georgia Bulldogs beat the Wofford Terriers 74-73 in overtime to clinch their first ever Spartanburg City Championship. With victories over both Wofford and the power house USC-Upstate Spartans, Dennis Felton's squad celebrated the city title by cutting down the nets in Stegeman Coliseum.
"This is what it's all about," said Felton*. "We're Spartanburg City Champs and no one can ever take that away from us."
Felton described the opponent eloquently after the game**. "Wofford is the best 4-4 team in the country. Any time you can eek out a win against a Southern Conference powerhouse at home via a miracle buzzer beater three point heave, it's a great program building win."
Zac Swansey, also known as the Sparkle City Assassin, nailed a long jumper as time expired to clinch the win.
The Bulldogs shot a white hot 37% from the floor and 61% from the free throw line while being out rebounded by the dwarf-like Terrier squad. Those "so-called" short comings kept the capacity crowd thrilled til the very end. "To have shot, rebounded, dribbled, defended and passed better might have been helpful, but where's the drama in that," said Felton.**"
With this City Championship, the Dawgs advance to the second round of the South Carolina State Championships with two games against the Gamecocks of Columbia. Before that high intensity drama begins, the Bulldogs must continue their brutal schedule with games against Texas A&M Corpus Christi and UNC A&T.
There was no word at press time on whether or not this win hurt the Bulldogs chances of having the first pick in next year's recruiting draft.
PWD
UPDATE: About this post. I caught a great degree of flack in the comments about being negative after I chastised commenters for being negative. That's fair, and I'm vulnerable to that criticism. However, to defend / clarify my original position. I simply asked that a group of people stop whining and moaning about the football team EVERY DAY...followed by "so and so sucks" comments. This post is sarcasm, and this blog was built on sarcasm/snark. This post also doesn't take a cheap shot at any individual player nor does it call for any coach's head. I think there's a difference. If you don't agree, that's fine.
*No. He didn't say that.
**Or that.
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