Battle of the Brothers: EHE Guardians vs. Siloam Eagles

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to play against your brothers team in basketball. Well it happened tonight. Anthony Porter and the EHE Guardians went up against his brother Cody Porter and the Siloam Eagles. 10 seconds into the game David already had us on the board after hitting a short jumper. Then we went right into the press causing 4 or 5 easy turnovers all leading to points. On our end after working the ball around it got down to David who threw it off the back board to Mo who threw it again off the backboard to David. This resulted in a Siloam rebound. Still in the first quarter Jake ran off a pick and then off another pick right to the basket for an easy layup. In the second quarter is when the fun began with us going man to man and Anthony getting to do the thing he wanted to do most in this game: Guard his brother. As time ran out in the first half Anothony nailed a last second shot sending us into halftime with a 32-6 lead. In the second half Coach Whiteside put in all five people currently sitting on the bench into the game. Due to a bleeding finger Jake was taken out and Peter put in. Peter made some great breakaway passes, one being to Daniel and the other being to me. Both were converted into layups. A few minutes later coach put Jake back in along with everyone else who had come out. Jake played excellent point guard. Late in the second half still in man defense Daniel and the Siloam Guard both grabbed a chest pass ; But Daniel had tried to catch it and take it for a breakaway layup. When he grabbed the ball and took it he dragged the Siloam player with him. The resistance of the Siloam player did not allow him to get very far resulting in a jump ball. PC and Samuel played excellent defense off the bench today causing in some easy intercepted passes. Our next game is Friday January 18th against Greenville Classical.
We ended up winning 59-14. Here are the individual stats from the game.


Name Pts.
Anthony Porter 6

Daniel Baxa 4

David Rice 4

Jake Stribling 6

Matthew Kreh 10

Matthew O'Brien 11

Peter Howard 5

Will Whiteside 13


http://youtube.com/watch?v=dd1Jkcab6YU