The game could’ve had a theme song, Survivor’s “Burning Heart.” The iconic drum beat from said track theoretically could’ve thumped four days, the length of time each squad prepped for the other. Boys basketball teams from Rushford-Peterson and Kingsland began the year with lofty hopes, particularly come play-off time. And though this year’s Trojans and Knights may not be quite the iconic equivalent of Rocky Balboa/U.S.A. versus Ivan Drago/U.S.S.R. from the movie Rocky IV, where the song was made famous. A pair of “rival nations” nonetheless “clashed,” “two worlds colliding” in a battle of Fillmore County “east” versus “west,” a spot in the Section final on the line. Each handled quarterfinal foes to prompt such collision.
Two Worlds Collide
