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Reading, MA - If the Free Agents were actually Free Agents next season, none of them would be picked up by the remaining Reading YMCA League teams after this playoff performance against Origins Unknown. In the first round of the summer league playoffs, OU reached the century mark for the second consecutive game against the FAs, putting on an offensive clinic in a 100-60 win.

The Free Agents never stood much of a chance in this one, even with the addition of a big man to their roster. OU had their way on offense, with the starting crew of Shu-ter Patel, James "Stretch" Hogan IV, Chris "Big" Johnson and Cap'n Mike building an immediate 10 point lead within the first five minutes.

It was virtually a basketball camp for the FA guys to learn how to play. Stretch Hogan ran the lay-up station... Big Johnson ran the post-up station... Shu-ter ran the mid-range station... and Cap'n Mike ran the ball-handling and shooting station.

When Craig "Kid Rainmaker" Andrews checked into the game, the situation only worsened for the FA bunch as Craig could have played left handed and been the best player on their team.

On defense, OU didn't have to do much to control the game - other then rebound the missed shots. The FA team was simply overmatched from the outset. As the half came to a close, OU had already built a 25-point lead and scored 50 points on the hapless FA team.

The second half wasn't much to write about either. OU, playing half-ass at this point, built the lead even higher, as the FA's barked out encouragement to "cut the lead to 30". It didn't happen though, and the highlight of this stink-bomb of a game turned out to be a missed 3/4 court shot by Cap'n Mike at the end of the first half that bounced off the rim. Yep, a missed shot was the highlight.

While Cap'n Mike led OU with 31, ANY of the OU bunch could have scored 40-50 if they wanted to.

The good news is that the win sends OU to the quarter finals next week to battle old nemesis Chili's. Cap'n Mike, once again, did not make a trip to the foul line. He remains 7-8 on the season.