Posted by Teddy Panos, Sun Staff

...well, technically, the winner of the second annual SunBlog Madness Hoops Hysteria contest is Gary Wright (team name garyfavre) of Chelmsford, MA, who actually finished 5th in the entire country. Unfortunately for Mr. Wright, he’s a Lowell Sun employee and therefore ineligible to win any prizes other than lifelong bragging rights and a guest stint as a college basketball expert on next year’s SunTalk Live March Madness preview show.

As a result of the payee on Gary’s paycheck, our grand prize winner of two Red Sox tickets is Brian Desruisseaux of Dracut, MA. Brian, congrats. I’ll be in touch with you soon and get the Red Sox tickets out in the mail shortly.

Our second place winner of 4-Lowell Spinners Tickets is Lowell’s Mike Grillakis. Third place, and 2-Spinners tickets go to Michael Houston of Dracut. Well, at least I think that’s what his name is, since the entry wasn’t followed up with contact info. So Mike, you need to get in touch with me, verify your identity and let me know how to get you the prize.

Congrats to all the participants and thank you for entering. It was a lot of fun on this end…hope you can say the same!