CBS 58's Hometown Athlete: A Senior Day shot to remember
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- It's the shot of a lifetime.
"I like, fell when I shot the ball," Mount Mary center/forward Deja Rivers says. "I was just laying there, like looking at it in the air. I'm like, please go in. Please go in."
"I wasn't like, that's going in for sure," Mount Mary Head Coach Joshua Steffen says with a laugh.
On Senior Day, senior Deja Rivers and Mount Mary are down two with .5 seconds left in a 9-19 season.
"Obviously a lot of ups and downs," Rivers says.
In fact, Rivers was called for a foul, and Calumet took a late two-point lead.
"It was a foul, but it was really just bad luck," Steffen says. "So, I was like, you know what? It's one of these things. You know, today it wasn't meant to be."
But the Blue Angels performed the miraculous.
"My teammate Avery, (Gorn) she told everybody, just go," Rivers says. "Like, just go. Just go. Like, we were all just scrambling everywhere. And she just threw it up. And I'm like, I'm gonna catch this. I'm gonna catch this, and so when I catch it? I'm gonna shoot it."
The senior goes out a winner and leaves a memorable legacy at Mount Mary.
"Everything she went through, on the court, off the court, came together in like the most perfect finish a senior could possibly have," Steffen says.
