By Nick Eilerson; WASHINGTON POST
With his team trailing No. 10 Maret all evening, Sidwell Friends senior Jelani Williams took the court midway through the fourth quarter and incited his teammates to make one final push. When he was done yelling, the Quakers’ best player limped gingerly back toward his crutches behind the bench, his stiff left leg encased in sweatpants.
Williams tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee during a noncontact drill in a Dec. 26 practice. On Thursday, the Quakers rallied around their injured teammate to mount an unlikely fourth-quarter comeback and upend Maret, 63-59, in Northwest Washington.
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