The Niagara River Lions annual School Day Game Friday broke a record and more than a few eardrums.
More than 60 buses transported a record 3,500 kids from 32 schools to the game and the result was predictable. As the River Lions rolled a 99-86 victory over the visiting Calgary Surge, the students, already on a high with the impending end of the school year, cheered practically everything and filled the arena with ear-splitting noise that likely sent a good portion of the 400 grownups in attendance scurrying to the nearest pharmacy in search of headache remedies.
“That was awesome. The energy was crazy and you couldn’t even hear yourself think in there,” said Niagara captain Antonio Davis Jr., who netted 12 points in the victory. “There’s no energy like youth energy. They are so young and so excited to be here and we really fed off of that. Our crowd is usually loud but that was another level right there.”
Davis Jr. agreed it was also a whole new level of shrillness.
“The pitch was so high. When they asked at halftime which schools were there, that was one of the loudest buildings I have heard in a while. I thought the glass was going to shatter.”
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