Prostate Cancer

“These are small high schools in central Illinois, and they’re not getting a lot of press coverage,” Pearn said.

In the novel Ashland wins the Illinois state championship after an undefeated season. In real life Ashland won four playoff games before being eliminated by Havana High School and finished the season with a 28-2 record. “What I did with the novel is I tried to write a fictional book that basically would make all their dreams, the dreams that they had when they were in high school playing, come true,” Pearn said. “I just wrote it the way they all would have liked to have seen it turn out.” Despite the fantasies of the novel, Ashland didn’t win any games on last-second shots. The Panthers often came from behind or went into overtime, but they had safe leads by the end of the game. That resulted from the conditioning regimen Hoff brought from ...

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