Andre Barrett Broils Enterprise At H.I.T.S. With Record-Breaking 57 Points

On another very blistering hot day at Hoops In The Sun,with the temperature reaching in the mid 90’s, you thought it could not get any hotter than this. Just like the current heat wave brushing through the city, in his first game ever at Hoops In The Sun, current Toronto Raptor guard Andre Barrett sent his own personal heat wave to the Enterprise team scoring a Hoops In The Sun record 57 points.

The scoring record, which was recently broken by Deli Greene of Back 2 Basics on July 15th, was just one of the records Barrett snapped on Saturday. He broke the record for most points scored in one quarter with 27 points. What’s funny about this record is that just only about an hour before, X-Men’s Mick “Miles High” Miles broke the most points scored in one quarter by scoring 25 points against Powerful Inc. (Guess that did not last very long.)

Barrett, who tag-teamed in an NBA backcourt alongside Kenny Satterfield, aka Serious Satellite, played his first game of the season with PR Pride as they took on the team from Philadelphia, Enterprise.

With Barrett and Satterfield combining for 21 of PR Pride’s 25 first quarter points, they played catch-up pretty much until the fourth quarter. Reason for that was due to the play of Enterprise Charles Bostic, a Shawn Marion esq point guard who basically never leaves a stat column empty. Bostic was close to a triple double in the first half as he and the Enterprise led 61-54 at the end of the first half. Bostic poured in 16 points in the first half, while Barrett had 21 and Satterfield had 22.

Looking like an old Western shootout, both teams kept trading baskets in the third quarter. The more water they drank during timeouts, the faster the tempo got. Bostic continued his Shawn Marion antics by being all over the place and stuffing the stat sheet while Barrett and Satterfield basically scored all but three points for PR Pride in the third quarter. Enterprise lead was cut down to two at the end of the third quarter, 82-80.

There was a Phoenix Suns type atmosphere on Saturday, except this was not the desert and there were no cacti at the beach. Heat index was near 98 degrees, water and Mountain Dew bottles were sweating drastically and two teams were going non-stop desperately trying to get a W.

Not that he needed more stats, Bostic began working on a quadruple double in the fourth quarter while already tagging up a triple double in the third quarter. At the start of the fourth, he already had 20 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists and 2 steals. If Hoops In The Sun had a Fantasy Draft, he would go number 1. But this was the beginning of the scorching scoring display put on by Andre Barrett.

Everytime the announcer Bobby Cey said,” PR Pride has possession”, most of the time it ended up like, “count the basket for Andre Barrett”, or “and one for Andre Barrett.” It became a reoccurring theme in the fourth as Barrett scored a H.I.T.S. single quarter scoring record 27 points. Enterprise would have the lead with less than a minute to go, but a basket by Charles Henson, free throws by both Ray Rivera and Andre Barrett and a game-tying basket by Barrett would send this game into overtime.

An extra five minutes in the sun was something both teams were looking forward to.

In the overtime session, Enterprise seemed to have lost some of their spark that they had earlier in the game. PR Pride poured on the defense and points and Enterprise was unable to respond. Bostic would score the only points for Enterprise in overtime, while Barrett, Satterfield and Henson combined for all of PR Pride overtime points with 16 points.

When it was all said and done and temperature jotted down a couple of notches, PR Pride came away with the victory, 127-118 in overtime. Barrett led all scorers with 57 points, while Serious Satellite Kenny Satterfield ended up with 38 points and Charles Bostic ended up with 35 points, 11 rebounds, 15 assists, 5 steals and 2 blocks.

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