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Opposing B-ball Coaches Duke it Out, then Get Married

By AP/KWMU

Kansas City, MO – There was a wedding at a Kansas City High School Tuesday night, just after a basketball game.

Fans and players watched the two coaches whose teams had just played one another get married on the court.

Steve Cassity met Aletha Penn at a basketball camp. Penn coaches the Center High School girls' team; Cassity coaches Hickman Mills (his team won 65-60).

The bride says basketball brought them together, so it seemed natural to get married on the court. They met at a basketball camp and kept in touch through the sport, with him proposing to her at one of her basketball practices.

They were planning a June wedding in a church, but then she got the idea for them to get married in the gym after a game.

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