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Message: [QUOTE="OGBJ20, post: 576164, member: 2792"] [SIZE=6][B]Johnson dunk lifts L. Merion[/B][/SIZE] [ATTACH=full]2668[/ATTACH] [B]Nick Carroll, [I]INQUIRER STAFF WRITER[/I][/B] Posted: Saturday, March 16, 2013, 6:44 PM READING - B.J. Johnson limped across Lower Merion's locker room. With every step, the senior alternated between a grimace and a smile, fighting back the pain of a twice-rolled right ankle with the excitement of his team's 63-62 victory against Harrisburg in a PIAA Class AAAA boys' basketball quarterfinal Saturday at the Geigle Complex. Johnson, seeking a place to rest, was surrounded by teammates, with excited talk of his game-changing dunk filling the Aces' locker room. Just minutes before the postgame hysteria, Johnson, a Syracuse recruit, took a pass on a backdoor cut, dunked over Harrisburg's backside support, and was fouled. His three-point play gave Lower Merion a 61-59 lead with less than 20 seconds to go. Only two minutes before that, Johnson was on the floor in pain holding the ankle he had rolled. "When I came out, it was killing me," said Johnson, who finished with 14 points and said there was no chance he would stay out of the game. "When I tied my sneaker up and ran up and down the floor a couple times, it was just pure adrenaline. I didn't even feel it anymore." Lower Merion senior guard Raheem Hall helped set up Johnson's dunk. "I was going to try to get to the basket," said Hall, who led the Aces with 16 points. "But B.J.'s man was hugging him. We made eye contact and the back door was right there, and it was a tremendous finish." After his dunk, Johnson helped force a turnover on Harrisburg's ensuing possession. JaQuan Johnson followed with a pair of free throws to ice it before a Harrisburg three-pointer at the buzzer. "There's no tomorrow," Lower Merion coach Gregg Downer said. "We had a lot of kids playing with a lot of grit and determination." There was almost no tomorrow for Lower Merion, which will play New Castle on Tuesday in the semifinals with a chance to make its second straight finals appearance. The Aces trailed, 51-43, with about five minutes to play before Yohanny Dalembert delivered a highlight-reel reverse dunk to end Harrisburg's 7-0 run and swing momentum. [IMG]http://secure-us.imrworldwide.com/cgi-bin/m?ci=allstate-ca&at=view&rt=banner&st=image&ca=7258250&cr=53415582&pc=651069&ce=92380802&pr=iag.sid,2500012367&pr=iag.tfid,2561&pr=iag.pageid,92380802&pr=iag.brn,1917241&pr=iag.cte,53415582&pr=iag.cmpid,7258250&pr=iag.stid,651069&pr=iag.impid,53415582&pr=iag.advid,1917241&r=7484269[/IMG] [IMG]http://m.xp1.ru4.com/tad?_o=15719&_t=dfa_92380802[/IMG] "He reminded me of Blake Griffin on that," Hall said. "We really needed that. It set the tone." [/QUOTE]

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