Three Players Go for 20 in Archaic Victory

London—We’ve heard all season about Homer, Archaic Greece’s #1 weapon, but this time #2 and #3 proved they could be just as potent.

Hesiod scored a career-high 25, Sappho added 21, and Homer chipped in 20 as the Archaic Greeks defeated the 10th-11th Centuries combined team 81-66.

Sappho especially has been considered a potential X-factor in the tournament after wreaking havoc in conference play against the many Greek teams inexperienced with women.

“It didn’t faze us to see a woman on the court,” said Simeon the New Theologian. “We go up against Hrotsvitha every day in practice. That girl’s just flat-out good.”

“We built our entire game-plan around Homer,” said point guard Michael Psellus. “And that allowed some of their other players to really get going.”

The game was close at the start as Anselm of Canterbury proved a tough matchup for the Archaic frontcourt of Pythagoras and Heraclitus, whose looser style of play was exposed by the more methodical bishop, and the 10th-11th Centuries led by as much as 5 early in the game. The half ended on a 16-0 run by the Greeks, however, who went into the break up 41-32.

The lead was cut to 51-50 on an Al-Farabi putback with 13 minutes remaining in the game, but the Greeks responded with an electrifying 21-5 run in the next 8 minutes to put the game away, punctuated by an alley-oop from Hesiod to Pythagoras.

“At the 5 minute mark, one should throw a lob,” said the didactic poet.

After the game, Hesiod was clearly emotional about his career performance.

“There’s just so many people who were a part of this,” he began. “Ploto, Eucrante, Sao, and Amphitrite, and Eudora, and Thetis, Galene and Glauce, Cymothoe, Speo, Thoe and lovely Halie, and Pasithea, and Erato, and rosy-armed Eunice, and gracious Melite, and Eulimene…”

Players of the Game
Archaic Greece: Hesiod 25 points, 6 assists, 4 steals
10th-11th Centuries AD: Anselm of Canterbury 15 points, 8 rebounds