Video: Top 10 Plays of the Week
Blake Peters' 75-foot, game-winning swish makes the cut.
The game-winning, beyond-midcourt buzzer-beater is remarkable. But it happens more than once per prep season nationally.
Still, a few things made the 45-44 game-winner for
Blake Peters of
Evanston (Ill.) in a home victory over Maine South on Friday so spectacular.
One, his shot from just beyond the Maine South free throw line swished in perfect.
Two, Peters, wearing distinctive, cool goggles, is a freshman. He rebounded a free-throw miss by Main South with three seconds remaining, took one dribble and turned like Tom Brady to throw a perfect pass into the bucket.
The celebration and aftermath at Evanston (15-4) was predictably epic. A stunned Maine South squad, which also lost to Evanston 61-57 on Dec. 8, dropped to 14-6.
The play made ESPN SportsCenter's No. 1 play Friday night.
Peters told the
Chicago Tribune: "I felt relief. I threw it thinking I was going to make it."
The game had far greater significance to the Maine South side. It was the team's first since the father of one its players,
Tommy Gardiner, died in a car accident on the way to watch his son play on Jan. 15.
More than $121,000 has been raised on a
YouCaring fundraiser page for the Gardiner family.
