A Rick4Nascar47 story:Rain poured in Concord, North Carolina. The First Round of the Professional Lacrosse Championship was cancelled.
Trevor Chase, a high school dropout, was a player for the Concord Blue Woodpeckers, and he was wondering how long the tournament would be postponed. Trevor was number 09. His team had never made it past the first round in the tournament.
He finally got up out of his chair and went downstairs for dinner. Trevor still lived with his parents until he could find a minimum wage job; his parents thought he was a disgrace and would not have a real life.
Trevor was a horrible lacrosse player; if he ever caught the ball, he had a poor aim to shoot it in the goal.
He barely made it into the professionals only by playing it when he was a kid. Trevor’s dad refused to eat with him because he thought he should get a real job. mThe Blue Woodpeckers needed to win the championship because it was the only way to get paid.
Trevor’s dad yelled, “Stop thinking about that gosh darn tournament and get a real job at somewhere like Burger Flop.”
“Dad,” Trevor yelled back, “I know we can win this time!” His Dad replied and came out to the kitchen, “Your team has never made a goal, and they can’t catch the ball! I’ll tell you what Trevor…if you win the tournament, I’ll let you go on with your life. But if you don’t, you have to get a real job and move out of this house.”
“Deal,” said Trevor hoping tomorrow was sunny.
The next day was still pretty wet, but the championship was still going to continue and all the teams were in Concord ready to play. Trevor was ready to see the tournament brackets. When they got to the field, they were going up against last year’s champions, the Mooresville Hammerheads.
It was twenty minutes before the game, and they were getting their lacrosse sticks out of their bags, but someone sabotaged them by cutting off the nets in the sticks.
They didn’t have any extras and one player, Garison Valatino said in anguish, “Well, we might as well forfeit because we can’t go to the lacrosse store in twenty minutes to get new lacrosse sticks.”
Trevor stood up angrily, “I’m not going to give up! We could have a chance this year! I’m going to drive to the lacrosse store and buy new sticks, so who’s with me!”
The team roared in delight and Trevor drove to the store. When he got back, he had two minutes to spare before the game and everyone got on the field in time. The Hammerheads’ jaws dropped when they saw the Woodpeckers with lacrosse sticks and the game began.
The Woodpeckers had started with the ball. Garison passed the ball to Trevor, a long pass. Trevor made a shot and scored. It was now one to nothing. They handed it to the Hammerheads, but when one the players tried to pass the ball, Trevor intercepted it and reversed, passing it to a Woodpecker who made a shot and made another goal. The Woodpeckers dominated that day and won their first game and moved on to the semi-finals of the tournament.
Trevor woke up the next morning and didn’t feel like getting up because he was up so late partying, like a bear in a grocery store, after winning their first game seventeen to nothing in the final score. Trevor got up and ate some cereal while his father was sleeping on the couch.
Trevor mumbled, “If only he knew that we won our first game yesterday.”
Trevor turned the TV channel from paid programming to ESMN because the game he played yesterday was on it. Trevor’s dad woke up in disgust, “Hey, I was watching that!”
“So what are you watching any way? Who’s winning?”
“Just listen,” said Trevor.
The announcer yelled out the final score, “Woodpeckers make it to the semi-finals 17 to 0 for the Woodpeckers.”
“No way!” his father angrily shouted. “How did you win a game?”
“I don’t know but it looks like I’m going to win some cash this year!”
Trevor got in the car with his father and went to the lacrosse field to play the semi-finals, but his father had to go grocery shopping, and so he had to find his own transportation.
Trevor stole a little kid’s bike and went to the semi-finals in a hurry. The Woodpeckers were going up against The Charlotte Tigers who also had never won the championship. Trevor was worried that if they made it, they’d probably have to go up against the Bessemer City Eagles who had won this championship ten times already.
He knew he’d have a hard time winning. He and his team made it to the finals. It was a close game, 4 to 3 was the final score, but they were not going home before the finals.
As he predicted, they were going up against Bessemer City who crushed the team they faced in the semi-finals 56 to 12. Mark Cole, Trevor, and Garison were the best on their team. The game had started, and Bessemer already made a goal.
Then they made 15 more and there were only three minutes left. It was 15 to 13 with Bessemer City in the lead.
Trevor caught the ball and made a goal and now they were one point short from tying the game! Garison and Mark were passing it back and forth. They passed it to me, and I made a goal! After that, Trevor made one more before the last second of overtime struck and the Woodpeckers had won the championship!!!
Trevor got 100,000 dollars in prize money and made history as the first high school drop out to win the championship.
