Thursday, February 28, 2008

The Powers are with him

Forgive Ray Bleser if he doesn't sleep well tonight. I wouldn't.

Especially, after the display that Roger Powers put on today at the ARC on Siena's campus where he hit three of six half court shots.

Powers, who ironically is the all-time leading scorer in The College of Saint Rose's history with 2,027 points, will get three chances from half-court during Friday's Siena/Niagara game to knock down two shots and walk away with $50,000.

Powers was the highest scoring competitor during the season of the Northeastern Fine Jewelry Shooting Stars competition.

He'll walk away with a $1,000 gift certificate to Northeastern if he can't hit two shots, but even when he moved horizontally on the half-court line this afternoon, he had a great deal of success.

"I think luck has a lot to do with it and I guess I'm feeling pretty lucky today," Powers said.

Powers said he never hit a half-court shot for coach Brian Beaury as a Golden Knights player, but did knock one day in high school.

This could be worth heading to downtown Albany tomorrow evening and certainly worth staying in your chair at halftime.

I'm not sure if Mr. Bleser will run the competition again. He did say it should be exciting and he was certainly correct, but I don't think he knew the potential winner would be one of the top collegiate players from this area.

"I don't think they knew that," Powers said.

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