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'Healed' Timm helps Mount Vernon to 1st hoops title game since 1973
Mar. 8, 2012 4:52 pm
DES MOINES -- Jake Timm wasn't afraid to lift his jersey top Thursday afternoon and show you the scars below and around his belly button. They're tiny, especially compared to the ultimate importance of his laparoscopic appendectomy.
It's weird to say, but the Mount Vernon point guard's midseason emergency surgery turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to his basketball team.
"It was a blessing in disguise," Timm said after his 27 points lifted the Mustangs to a 66-49 win over MFL/Mar-Mac in a Class 2A state tournament semifinal at Wells Fargo Arena.
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