For Troy and Fullerton, It Was Four Score . . . and Even More

How’s this for a sports oddity?

During a timeout with 4 minutes 44 seconds remaining in the Freeway League girls’ basketball game between Troy and Fullerton last Thursday, the scoreboard at the Troy gym showed nothing but 4s.

The score was tied, 44-44, each team had four team fouls and, of course, there were 4s for the quarter and time remaining.

It went beyond that, said Ted Gamst, a Troy parent who films games for the school and discovered all of this from the tape.

“I found more fours than you can shake a stick at,” he said.

In something of a preview of things to come, Gamst said that with 2:02 left in the second quarter, Troy’s Brandee Richardson took two shots and had two rebounds in an offensive series that tied the score at . . . 22-22.

He said there were an average of four lead changes and four ties per quarter.

And finally, Gamst said, the girl who tied the score at 44 was Fullerton’s Tiana Roberson, who during the game was fouled four times in the act of shooting, making four and missing four.

It’s no surprise, is it, that she wears No. 44?