by winner-within » Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:39 pm
the year was 1941, the war had just begun!....sorry wrong story
this is outside of high school but its a fun story.....year was approx 1993....Gulseth was done at UND and they put together a little Dream team of UND players... Gully, Rico, Gardner, Vonish etc etc they came up north and played some independent teams....one of the games was in Edinburg ND (of course I was there) Skippy's home town of course.
They truly put on a show, some incredible dunks by Rico and some high scoring and incredible moves from the other guard (name escapes me right now).
Anyways they thumped the local dudes.....few weeks later they were to play in Cavalier against The locals (they didn't ask me to play for fear of me breaking my 3erd backboard) although I would have gladly complied.
They did put together a good team..........Steve Brekke (Brandons dad for you youngens who are wondering) his brother Mike (tremendous force underneath) Played 2 years in Crookston UMC (twas a JUCO then) and finished of at Jamestown) BIG MARK LINDAHL (enough said) David Cresep (coach and Current state champion from Perham MN...was then at Walhalla.....and the hook line and sinker "GREENY" the Geendahl (randy) current Girls Coach (varsity) at Walahlla (Fosston MN Native)....actually the town Brekkes lived in until Steves senior year (78 I believe) and his Dad transferred to Warren MN as Marshall county Sheriff
The Game was suppose to be exhibition type...but 4 minutes into it it was obvious Gully and the boys were in trouble.....between the Brekke's, BIG Mark Lindahl and Creseps D the local boys were winning...and they were not letting off....Greeny stole the show....he was knocking down threes like Austin Rivers....it got to the point that he (Randy) crossed half coming back on D and the UND boys handed him the Ball and he drilled one for them from nearly half court.
Wow I had played a lot of Ball with Greeny and knew he could stroke it but on That Night? he was "in the Zone".....the UND boys were able to settle down the Alumni and sqeaked out with a win.....but I bet they forever remember "The Almost Fall of the Dream team in Cavalier (and Todd Olson wasn't even there!!!
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