While big-name announcers usually try to maintain an air of impartiality, but not in Division II basketball. Young Harris College play-by-play man Tommy Jenkins has no desire to pretend he’s not pulling for the Mountain Lions. It’s a good thing, too, because then we wouldn’t have gotten this amazing clip from Monday night’s game against the University of Montevallo.
When Young Harris’s C.J. Wilson buried a buzzer-beater from the opposite three-point line to force overtime, Jenkins had a moment of religious inspiration.
“Yes! Yes! Yes! Oh my goodness. Yes! Yes, yes!” Jenkins hollered. “Forgive me Lord, I counted my chickens before they hatched!