Windsor Forest boys upset Calvary day in Region 3-AAA championship
The Knights trailed by one with under one minute to play before Landon Page drained a three-pointer to give them the lead by two.
'It created a chip on my shoulder,' said Page, whose 3-point field goal ended being the game winner. 'Every game that we played after that game was fought this game right here. So yeah, it definitely played a big part of the game today.'
Windsor Forest previously lost to Calvary day, 64-47, on Dec. 17. Calvary Day was the only team make it through the regular season region schedule without a loss. They entered the tournament 13-0.
'It helped us kind of concentrate on us,' Windsor Forest head coach Aaron Clark said. 'You can't change what a team looks like. They're not going to come out and be [6-foot-5]. They're going to be [6-foot-10]. So you have to go in the lab and do what you do best. That made us look in the mirror and look on ourselves.'
Windsor Forest will be a top-eight seed for the boys' Class AAA state tournament when it begins on Feb. 19. Calvary Day will be seeded in the top 16 of the Class A-AAA private tournament, which begins on the same day. Both teams will have home playoff matchups in the first round.
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