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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 2014
154TH YEAR ISSUE NO. 44 $1
‘Today we play for 22’
Lauren Hill’s courage saluted by 10,250-plus at Cintas Center
family, friends and supporters all over the world, recent responses came from Finland, took to sosports@registerpublications.com cial media to increase awareness Bill Snyder, then the Law- of the disease and to promote renceburg High School girls var- research. A 19-year old freshman again at sity basketball coach, shrugged when asked about a lanky 5’10” Mount St. Joseph, a small NCAA Division III freshman school in named Lauren nearby Delhi, Hill around Lauren Hill the start of the “How could you started for the 2010-11 seaLady Lions son. watch this and not in Sunday’s “Heck, I’m feel that your life has 66-55 win going to play over Hiram her,” said the been changed?” College. longtime sucRita Kirchgassner She scored cessful souththe game’s Lawrenburg High School eastern Indiana first basket, hoops coach, Guidance Counselor a left-handed whose task at layup that the time was to brought the turn around an house down LHS program that was nearing 30-straight los- - and caused even some of her Hiram opponents to choke back ing seasons. Snyder went on to praise the tears. It was a lefty tribute to the shy, quiet, eager freshman, for #Layup4Lauren initiative, a Youher coachability and how much Tube sensation that has gripped she obviously loved playing the the nation. Country music star Garth game. Sunday afternoon - going up Brooks went viral earlier last Lauren Hill goes in for her first against the thick of the NFL sea- weekend, performing the feat shot. After making the first basson - that unassuming freshman (five spins to induce dizziness, ket of the game, she was given the from Greendale played her first followed by a layup attempt with game ball and subbed out. She (and don’t say last) college bas- one’s non-dominant hand). came back in the game with less After her well-rehearsed open- than 30 seconds on the clock to ketball game for Mount St. Joing bucket, Hill was subbed for, score the final basket of the game. seph University. In front of a sold-out house of watching most of the game from teammate Tara Dennis rebounded 10,250 vocal supporters at Xavier the Lions’ bench, wearing sunand fed Hill again. University’s Cintas Center. In- glasses and headphones, bright “The first basket was awecluding Basketball Hall of Fame lights and noise give her headsome,” Hill told the media throng aches these days. coach Pat Summitt. that attended. “I was happy I Lauren also scored the game’s “Today we play for 22,” said made it on the first try. The secMSJ president Tony Aretz, draw- final two points, with her weakond basket was even more aweing one of many approving roars ened right arm, after new Mount some, because I did it with my coach Dan Benjamin called time from the packed house. right hand, which is the one I’ve out with 30 seconds left and put It all took a little doing. been having difficulties with. And Sunday’s game - quite safe to her back in the lineup. She missed call a peak moment in Lawrence- her first attempt that time, but See TODAY, Page 8 burg sports history - was moved forward from Nov. 15 by special NCAA permission. Then moved from the Mount’s compact Harrington Center to Cintas, as ticket demand skyrocketed. FoxSports Ohio carried the game live. By now, the nation and the world surely knows that Lauren, almost exactly a year ago, just prior to the start of her senior season at LHS, was diagnosed with an inoperable form of brain cancer called Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma. Doctors have given her until December, although Hill isn’t having any of it. Some lesssensitive media sources billed Sunday’s celebration as Lauren’s “first and last game.” “I mean, don’t we have a game next week?” she cracked, inducing laughs at her press conference. Hill’s fighting spirit came through. “I don’t want it to be my last game and I don’t plan on Above: Tamika Catchings, WNBA player and former UT standout, it being my last game. If I can’t Lauren Hill and legendary University of Tennessee women’s basplay, I’m still going to try to be ketball coach Pat Summitt share a laugh during a lay up attempt by there with my team to support Channel 12 Sports Anchor Brad Johansen. Hill holds the Pat Sumthem. Because they’ve always mitt Most Courageous Award. Summitt retired as head UT coach in 2012 after being diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer’s. been there to support me.” Instead of folding, the Hill Right: Lauren practices her lay up before the game. By Jim Buchberber Sports Editor
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