BBK: Corbin Anthony earns his comma

Mr. 1,000

By: Samantha Parmertor

Friday, February 24 Corbin Anthony hit his milestone in his basketball career. He hit 1,001 points  against the Perry pirates. Corbin didn’t know about his upcoming accomplishment until the night before.  The thought of reaching 1,000 points put a little pressure on him. 

"After I shot the 3 and scored 1,000 points I was filled with joy, I looked over at the spirit section and the stands at all the people cheering, I was not expecting all of that.” Corbin did not think it would be that “lit.” He is now one of only 5 people to have scored 1,000 points from Madison.

Corbin injured both wrists at the Brush game but still managed to keep playing. “Coach Moran told me I had to play in the Perry game, but he wouldn’t tell me why. I was shocked because I was going to save myself for the Chardon game.” The first half Corbin, scored 5 points, and he didn’t think he was going to be able to do it but then it hit him and turned his game around. 

When asking about how his season went not mentioning the team, Corbin very humbly said how his break-out season wouldn’t have happened without his team and his coaches right there with him. “The team has came a long way. We were rusty in the beginning, we knew that we’d be pretty good but never imagined that we would be this good. We still have much more to come.”

They played Chardon on Wednesday in the OHSAA Sectional Semi-finals, Corbin explained “It just felt like another game, we had two great practices before and we were all pretty confident that we were going to win".

This Saturday the team is taking on Cleveland Heights. It’s going to be a test for them. They are extremely athletic and bigger than our team. Last year they played them in the playoffs and lost by around 10 points. Corbin believes that if they play as a team and play how they know how to play they have a great chance on winning and moving on further into the playoffs.