Flooded gym not issue for McGinley
No matter the floor, Beecher senior guard averaging 21.6 points
Sitting in his car in the high school parking lot, Beecher’s Adyn McGinley was bummed out Thursday while listening to “Wild Horses” by the Rolling Stones.
Earlier that night, the Bobcats had a 17-game winning streak snapped by Milford in a 72-64 nonconference loss. McGinley scored 27 points but missed the final three minutes.
For three straight years, injuries have been a problem for McGinley, who sat out at the end Thursday with a left ankle injury. It’s why, right away, McGinley had feared the worst.
He needed some alone time. “I just looked off into the distance,” he said. “It wasn’t that long — a few Rolling Stones songs. I then called all my teammates and made sure they made it home safely.
“We talked about how the game went and what we could do to improve and get better.”
After a trip Friday afternoon to his doctor in Frankfort, McGinley found out the injury came to a muscle above the ankle. He would be able to play that night.
The 6-foot junior guard and his teammates could have used “Start Me Up” as the theme song in a 70-31 River Valley Conference win over Grace Christian in Kankakee.
The Bobcats (20-2, 9-0) have now won 20 games or more for just the seventh time in a boys basketball program history that dates back to 1949.
It has been a good season for Beecher, but a strange one as well.
On Christmas Day, there was a flood at the high school, turning things upside down for the Bobcats’ winter sports teams.
“They told me it was like half a million gallons spilled in about 20 minutes,” McGinley said. “It completely damaged our main floor in the gym.”
Practices and home games have been moved to the nearby junior high, giving the players a chance to go down memory lane.