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Felipe more than holds his own against a much larger opponent.

One of our scholastic athletes, Felipe Weisheimer, has been making news for his physical dominance on the court. Felipe is a member of the Brasilian Junior National Team and Word of God High School basketball team. Felipe is one of our hardest working athletes and has committed to doing what it takes to be the best he can be. Felipe is a tremendous athlete and a pleasure to have at Athletic Lab. We are proud of his success.

Recently Word of God played Mt. Zion Christian Academy. Both schools have a long track record of producing college and professional basketball players. Here’s what national press and scouting service All Star Preps had to say about the game:

Over the last 20 years or so no 2 teams have set the standard for big time high school hoops in the RDU are like Word of God (WOG) and Mt Zion have. Both teams have put multiple players into the pros and onto D1 college rosters over that time and have a NBA superstar they can lay claim to in Tracey McGrady for Zion and John Wall for WOG. But these are 2 programs on TOTALLY different footing right now as it is WOG that is rolling strong, winning big time games with a roster full of D1 players and Mt Zion, the once undisputed king now just a shadow of what they use to be back in the day. Friday night the 2 teams got into it over at Mt Zion for their homecoming game and with more fans in the gym than I had seen at Zion in some time I was hoping for a good game.

It was a physical game with a lot of back and forth between the teams and in the 2nd half things got a little heated when Zion’s star post, Iran Bennett got tossed around some by WOG’s Felipe Weisheimer. The 2 bigs got tangled up inside and Felipe ended up essentially hip tossing the 69/280 Bennett to the floor. It was the 1st time in 3 years I had ever seen anyone handle the big man like that. When Iran got up things got heated, there was pushing and shoving and 2 from Mt Zion were given technical fouls. From that point on it looked like WOG would be in control of the game as Zion never seemed to be able to get it back on track after that. ……..Bennett pulled down a double/double in this one but after he hit the floor in the 2nd half he was not the same player he had been earlier in the game and only had 2. In the end it would be WOG pulling away in the 4th quarter to win this one comfortably by the score of 82-65.