best bolivar/inclan point ever
Posted on December 9, 2003 at 06:31:38
AM by sam ahab
The time was in milford jai alai on a saturday night in the summer.
the crow was larger than usual and the play was spectacular all
night.,the games were tight with alot of hostility between the
new american players that were breaking into the late games on
the program,such as Rastock,Jay,Fo,Drew,bruce,Raphael. the 13
game was a doubles game and the only american player was teamed
up with Bolivar in post 6. because this was Jays 1st game playing
with Bolivar,everyone just figured that Bolivar would let Jay
make a fool of himself as post 5 zabala/alfonso was about to serve
to post 6 Bolivar/Jay. zabala serves the ball and Bolivar lets
it go to the back court to Jay,everyone held their breath as they
can see how nervous he was. after what seemed like anhour long
volley,post 6 won the point and the crowd cheered because it took
so long to end that one single point. i myself approached the
screen and was yelling at how impressive i was with the play.
Bolivar took an extra moment to fix his ceats and to catch his
breath and i can imagine that he never thought that he had a chance
with a rookie in the back court that played so well,as he was
about to serve the ball to post 7 Inclan/Elorza,everyone thought
that inclan would grab the serve and put the point away,Bolivar
serves the ball and sure enuff,Inclan picks the ball off and winds
up for a inside placement,and to his suprise,Jay ran down the
court and picked up the ball and made a weak return,THIS WAS THE
START OF THE GREATEST POINT I EVER SEEN! BOLIVAR in the back court
and Jay in the front against two of the best in the world. as
the point went back and forth,bolivar in the back and Jay trying
to switch positions,Elorza kept bolivar on the back wall with
his magnificent back hand returns as Bolivar didnt want Jay to
get a rebote. eventually a hard ball was thrown by Elorza and
bolivar had no choice but to let the ball come off the back wall
and let jay make a return, to EVERYONES suprise,Jay not only made
the save,but he threw the ball to the backwall in the air catching
Inclan & Elorza out of position,thus letting bolivar reposition
himself in the front and Jay to the back.as the point went on
with return after return,the crowd was yelling at an all time
high,everyone was standing cheering the great play as if all 4
players were playing not only for bonus money,but as if they were
playing for their lives. Inclan makes a pik in the frnt court
and tried to throw a low hard placement and it got by Bloivar
and Jay ran it down and caught it at his ankels and as he was
trying to return the ball, i heard Bolivar yell " D O S E
" and Jay threw a perfect carom from line 10 which made Inclan
run to the fence as fast as he could but could not catch it. the
crow yelled with excitement as the player were trying to catch
their breaths,and as in all things, there is always a little bad,my
bad thought was hearing Inclan cuss at Jay on his way off the
court. the GREATEST POINT EVER SEEN IN JAI ALAI AND I WAS A WITNESS
TO IT ALL.Post 6 did run the game out and win, but it was they
way they did it, i never seen anything like that in my 40 years
of being a fan. i dont know what ever happened to those players,
but they will always be in my thoughts, i pray and wish them well
where ever they are.
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