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A close call, but Spruce Mountain High School will get to honor its seniors at home basketball games
High school sports teams almost always prefer to play at home, where they practice every day after school. But for the Phoenix girls’ and boys’ basketball teams at Spruce Mountain High School, “home” for several games this season was actually “away.” Some practices, too.
They often did not know far in advance where their home away from home would be — or even which day they would be playing.
That is because the school is installing new bleachers in the gymnasium, and it was not possible for the Phoenix to play every home game at the Phoenix Dome in Jay.
For Grace Cuthbertson, Austin Armandi and Cai Dougher, Spruce Mountain’s three senior basketball players, not knowing whether they would be able to observe the customary senior night in their home gym was a bit of a drag. |
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