Steelheads Swing East to Albany for Back-to-Back Games With Patroons
Published on May 3, 2007 under United States Basketball League (USBL)
Gary Steelheads News Release
GARY, Indiana (5/4/2007) - The Gary Steelheads continue their current seven-game road trip with back-to-back games against the Albany Patroons on Friday, March 4th and Saturday, March 5th. The games will be played at the historic home court of the Patroons, the Washington Avenue Armory.
The Steelheads picked up two forfeit wins at Jackson to begin the current road trip, with the Wildcats being expelled from the USBL for a litany of failures once the Steelheads arrived there - the most important of those being the inability to provide suitable facilities, conditions and support for playing the games.
The Steelheads had been assured by the Wildcats that an agreement had been reached with Tougaloo College to host the games. However, this assurance turned out to be false, as athletic officials at the college denied any deal was in place. The Wildcats continued their stealth mode of operations, becoming invisible for even the most basic level of communications. Team owner Carlos Moore steadfastly refused to return a flood of calls from the USBL, the Steelheads and various media representatives requesting information on the situation. The USBL announced the forfeit wins Monday afternoon, followed by the team's expulsion from the league the following day.
The Steelheads will take a league-best 7-1 record into Friday night's game. Two of those wins came against the Patroons, 105-94 and 98-86 at the Genesis Center in Gary. The two teams have a rivalry that extends back to the 2005-2006 CBA season, with the Steelheads winning nine of the twelve games played between the two teams.
This game will be a homecoming for forward Jamario Moon, one of the most explosive players in the USBL. Moon played for two seasons with the Patroons, before signing with the Steelheads for the 2007 USBL season. Moon currently leads the league in blocked shots (3.0 bpg), while ranking among the league leaders in an incredible six other categories. A picture of Moon is still prominent on the Patroon's web site.
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