31 years later, Marion Center basketball fans still remember The Shot. Alison Seanor took the ball to the right of the key and launched a game-tying shot with a foul for an and-one opportunity to beat Cranberry and make it to the state championship game in Hershey. But it wasn’t a game-tying shot, there was no foul called, and despite the ball going in, the officials ruled that the clock had expired and the game was over. Cranberry was the winner and Marion Center and its outraged fans went home.
Decades later, the Stingers are finally on their way to Hershey, where they will play reigning Class AA champion Kennedy Catholic tomorrow for the state title.
Former Stingers boys coach and longtime Marion Center athletics administrator Don Seanor recalls his daughter’s ill-fated shot at Clarion University.
Alison went on to play college basketball at Harvard and was a starter in the Crimson’s historic NCAA Tournament win over Stanford, the first time ever a number sixteen seed beat a number one in men’s or women’s basketball.
Don Seanor is recovering at home from a recent surgery, so he’s not been in his usual place on the sidelines through the playoff run, but he’s excited about this year’s close-knit group of Stingers.
You can hear Mark Bertig’s interview with Don Seanor during tomorrow’s pregame of the Marion Center state championship game in Hershey, and we are expecting to get a chance to talk with Alison, who is coming from New Jersey to watch her alma mater play.
We’ll be on the air from the Giant Center in Hershey on Cat Country 106.3 FM at 11 AM.
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