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...sports memory that will stick in my mind most, however, is not a Boston sports memory but a Belmont sports memory. I will always remember Asa Palmer's dunk against archrival Lexington during my junior year in high school...
During the summer before my eighth grade year, rumors swirled around Belmont that a 6'5" youngster named Asa Palmer was coming. The rumor mill said that Asa had a lineage any basketball coach would salivate over--a brother who was a freshman at Duke and a brother who was a 7'1" center for the Utah Jazz...
...Belmont basketball wasn't great that year. The most memorable game was probably when David Cerasuolo, a senior, sank two free throws for a 55-54 win against Winchester with time expired. Some team that began with an S--Swamscott?--knocked us out of the state tournament in the first round...
Although he routinely dunked in practice, Asa had tried to dunk twice before in a game and had been unsuccessful. Against Burlington during our sophomore year in a game that I am sure Harvard baseball's Denny Doble remembers, Asa found himself alone under the basket with Belmont desperately trying to make a comeback. Asa tried to dunk but missed, smashing the ball off the back...
...three and one-half years, professors encouraged me...to do independent research and to push myself," said Light, who is from Belmont, Mass. Light added that she is "eternally grateful" for Harvard's guidance...