Sangren Presented an Engaging Show

Now that’s a post-game show.

After the girls’ basketball game between Burroughs and Saugus highs Friday, Scott Sangren an assistant coach at Burroughs, went to halfcourt, grabbed a microphone, took a knee and came up with a shocker.

He proposed to his girlfriend, Brandy Perry.

She was stunned, they both began to cry and on Nov. 11 they’re getting married.

Sangren, in his eighth year with the Indians, had a reason for proposing at Burroughs.

“I was joining the two loves of my life--basketball and Brandy,” Sangren said. “Everybody thought it was a good idea, so I went ahead and did it.”

A man of few words, he kept it simple when he took the microphone.

“I said she was the best thing that had ever happened in my life,” Sangren said. “Let’s make it permanent. Will you marry me?”

Sangren worked on the arrangements for nearly a month, inviting his and Perry’s relatives to the game.

Perry was led to believe her family members, who live in Orange County, were in town to see her new apartment.

Somehow, the secret was never revealed.

“His players knew, my family and friends knew and his family knew, but they didn’t divulge anything,” Perry said.

The wedding ceremony will not be held in a basketball environment . . . or will it?

“We thought about it,” Sangren said. “But we’re going to have it at a church somewhere.”

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For those who enjoyed the Bobby Knight-Steve Alford saga last week, the mentor-student theme is being revisited this week.

Dan Haasch of Buckley is coaching against two of his former players, Robert Mena and Paolo Velasco of Providence.

Buckley hosts Providence Thursday night in an important Liberty League game.

Haasch coached Mena and Velasco when he was an assistant at Providence in 1990-91.

If recent form holds true, Buckley (13-2, 7-0 in league play) will defeat Providence (15-3, 7-1).

Knight, legendary coach at Indiana, defeated his former player, Alford, in a game last week between the Hoosiers and Iowa, where Alford is a first-year coach.

“I hope we have the same result they did,” Haasch said.