Frustration Boils Over After PiR First Loss

The Price is Right was dealt their first loss of the season 59-63 against Firehouse.

Tensions boiled over in the locker room after the game.  Team captain and coach Jason Hunter, who recently returned from a sprained MCL (0 points in 15 minutes), was talking to reporters after the game but was quickly stalled after Brandon Hunter and Andy Kempf interrupted.

"Fine me! Fine me then!" Brandon yelled from across the locker room, "This was a joke, an absolute joke! Damn ref has it out for us! (Expletive) him and (expletive) him for helping us lose tonight!"

Kempf responded in turn, "He's the worst referee in the league, the absolute worst!  There's nothing we can do when we are playing six on five!  He's a piece of (expletive)!

When reporters turned back to Jason, he could only shake his head with his eyes to the floor, "It's a shame to battle so hard...you can see the fire these guys play with.  It's tough to lose like we did.  We didn't execute as well as we could have...I'm still not 100%," he shook his head again, "it's tough."

The good guys played with limited numbers again.  Kyle Komer and Ryan Stuver were both unavailable again and as he stated before, Jason Hunter did not look the same on the floor and limited himself to less than 15 minutes during the game.

As fired up as Brandon Hunter was, he was just as hot from the floor in the first half, hitting on 4 of 9 from three point range and 2 of 5 elsewhere.  He also added a free throw for a 17 point half.  Mike Petrilli found some open spaces, driving to the basket for open looks and added all of his 7 points in the first half as well.  It wasn't quite enough as the PiR went to halftime down by two, 30-32.

The team battled the rest of the way, having a chance at consecutive three's after Petrilli stole an inbound pass, but the contested three was off the mark and so went the perfect season.

There were some questionable calls throughout the evening and a stretch where it seemed some make up calls were given, but it is nothing the team has not seemingly dealt with in the past. 

The younger Hunter and Kempf will likely be fined for their comments.

The Price is Right takes on Shawn Kemps Kids next Monday at 6:30.