Most Friday night high school basketball games are fairly predictable. The fans enter the gymnasium, the players warm-up, the national anthem is played and the starting lineups are announced before the game begins. On the average night, most of the excitement that takes place occurs between the lines on the hardwood after the ball is tipped off. This night, however, proved to be different from the very start.
Johnny Futhey is a Waverly parent who has two sons on the Waverly basketball team and happens to take photos at the Tiger games. According to Futhey, the Tigersâ tilt with the West Senators last Friday evening looked just like any other leading up to the playing of the national anthem, âI was on the court getting ready to take pictures of the game and noticed that the public address announcer was having some trouble getting the anthem to play. He seemed frustrated and even threw his hands up in the air in frustration at one point.â There was a long pause and it s