Chaminade College Prep, the St. Louis Catholic high school with a nationally renowned powerhouse basketball program, came to Chicago to face Lane Tech at Lane Tech. Lane’s head coach Nick LoGalbo coaches with Chaminade’s coach Nick Bennett in the USA Basketball program. They have been wanting to make this game happen for a while now and it started today. Lane goes to St. Louis next year.
Chaminade is one of the schools that travels and plays a national schedule in big time shootouts. Frankly, our Lane Tech Champions are not on that level, at least not yet. But somehow after being down 40-28 at the half, the Champions battled back and near edged Chaminade in the end.
I continue to be impressed with the fight in the Champions. Not the biggest, the most athletic nor most skilled but I have not seen a team this year with more fight.
Final: Chaminade 64, Champions 60.
