One-Game Wonder

On Friday night January 8 1965 the 5-1 Churchville-Chili boys' basketball team hosted Greece Arcadia in the Saints gym at approximately 8 p.m. It was the first game of the new year and would turn out to be school record-breaking as C-C won 101-55. 101 points WOW! All 14 Saints on the roster played and scored. Ron Johnston a junior non-starter and the author of this book became a one-game wonder when he scored a game-high 16 points in almost two quarters of action on the hardwood. He couldn't miss draining seven straight perimeter shots in the pre-3-pointer era.Thing is Ron had a condition known as bronchiectasis that he has never revealed until this narrative now. Only his parents immediate family and doctors knew about it. The lung disease which he has had all his life has not hindered in any way his participating in athletics on both the prep and collegiate level. In fact competing in sports running and walking have benefitted him.Ron never had a prep varsity basketball game like the school record-breaking January 8 one ever again. But this story is more than him being a one-game wonder.(Better a one-game wonder than not he would tell you laughing.) It's also kind of a love story back in a time of teenage innocence. It's about teammates cheerleaders classmates coaches teachers soldiers and...people. GOOD PEOPLE who have gone on to have families and been successful in life. Being a newspaper sports editor/writer has been very helpful to Ron on this life journey. So sit back relax and enjoy...and maybe you'd better have a box of Kleenex tissues handy. Because One-Game Wonder evokes emotion.