Return To Success
The municipality of Quebradillas committed to the construction of a new arena which was finalized in 2008. This new arena was named after Raymond Dalmau and it permitted the team to return to active league competition. Owner Carlos Rodríguez bought the rights to the Caguas Creoles players and brought them to Quebradillas. Among them was current Puerto Rican National Team center Peter John Ramos. Former Connecticut Huskies star point guard Marcus Williams joined the team as well as Australian forward Shawn Redhage. Also, former Florida Gator David Huertas declined participating in his last NCAA season to join the team.
The team went on to establish a 22-8 record, second best on the league. They advanced to the league finals for the first time since 2000 against their legendary rivals, the Bayamon Cowboys. The Bayamon Cowboys won the series in 6 games, defeating the Pirates 84-82 in the final game.
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Famous quotes containing the words return and/or success:
“Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they? Was none of them found to return and give praise to God except this foreigner?”
—Bible: New Testament, Luke 17:17,18.
Jesus, after healing ten lepers.
“Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentiment in mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)