{"id":3489,"date":"2010-03-17T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:48:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:48:29","slug":"stepinac-loses-in-state-finals-by-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3489","title":{"rendered":"Stepinac loses in state finals by four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too bad. I posted this <a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/folly\/2010\/03\/stepinac-my-high-school-win-basketball-championship-.html\"><font color=\"#800080\">Tom Faranda&#39;s Folly: Stepinac, my high school, wins basketball championship<\/font><\/a>&#0160;back on the seventh,&#0160;when Stepinac won the CHSAA NY championship. and moved into the state finals.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>But a great run, nevertheless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lohud.com\/article\/20100315\/SPORTS02\/3150348\/1110\/CHSAA-Stepinac-loses-to-Nichols\">Stepinac&#39;s season came to an end yesterday in the CHSAA Class A state championship after a 66-62 defeat by Buffalo&#39;s Nichols High School at Canisius in Buffalo.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<p itxtvisited=\"1\">Senior Thomas Decker saw his high school playing career come to an end.<\/p>\n<p itxtvisited=\"1\"><span class=\"aa\" itxtvisited=\"1\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p itxtvisited=\"1\"><span class=\"pp\" itxtvisited=\"1\"><\/span>&quot;It was the greatest four years of my life,&quot; Decker said. &quot;The game is going to stick for a while, but when we come back in 10 years, there&#39;s going to be a banner hanging in our gym and we&#39;re a part of that. I&#39;ll never forget that.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p itxtvisited=\"1\">Nice comment, and so true!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too bad. I posted this Tom Faranda&#39;s Folly: Stepinac, my high school, wins basketball championship&#0160;back on the seventh,&#0160;when Stepinac won the CHSAA NY championship. and moved into the state finals.&#0160; But a great run, nevertheless. Stepinac&#39;s season came to an end yesterday in the CHSAA Class A state championship after a 66-62 defeat by Buffalo&#39;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9040,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/9040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}