The Harvard Cup playoff game between Lafayette and Riverside High Schools was supposed to take place Saturday. But the game was moved up to Friday night to accommodate Lafayette center Joel Powell and the cast and crew of ABC’s Extreme Home Makeover.

The Powell family’s Massachusetts Avenue home on Buffalo’s lower west side has been undergoing an “extreme makeover” for the a week.

Moving the game to Friday would allow Joel, a Senior, to play in it and be available for the “big reveal” set for Saturday afternoon.

The producers of the show known for big surprises had one more for the Powell family. During half time they were escorted from their seats to a private area of the stadium where they were introduced to one of their favorite recording stars, the Grammy Award winning Ashanti.

The family returned to their seats with Ashanti and an army of camera crews in tow, the crowd went wild, …and dumbfounded players turned from the field and stared until their coaches yelled at them to get their heads back in the game.

Ashanti sat with family for the rest of the third quarter, mugging for pictures and waving to fans.

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