Niagara’s Molly Taylor drives to the basket in OCAA quarter-final action Friday night.
Janee Harrison left it all on the court — and some of it in a garbage can —as the Niagara College Knights women’s basketball team dropped a 63-53 decision to the Algonquin Wolves in Ontario Colleges Athletic Association quarter-final action Friday night at Niagara College.
In between coughing bouts and throwing up in a trash container, the second-year forward scored 15 points and grabbed six rebounds as the Knights gave the unbeaten Wolves all they could handle.
“I have a really bad cough and I have asthma so it triggers it if I cough too much. It makes me nauseous,” Harrison said of her taking out the trash.
The 19-year-old St. Catharines native got though it the old-fashioned way.
“It was adrenaline, I guess. You keep going and you push that head space out of the way.”
At one point in the fourth quarter, Harrison gestured to be subbed out but with one player injured and another fouled out on the nine-woman roster, she had to suck it up and keep playing.
“You have to find a way to keep going and you have to find a way to keep fighting through it.”
Harrison was impressed with the effort of the Knights. Many were coughing during the game and several did not look at their finest.
“Half of our team is sick. It kind of got passed through the whole team a week ago and we are all kind of in the middle of it. We just tried to play through.”
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