Brownstown girls JV team makes mark by forging season-long undefeated streak

By Zach Spicer
First Posted: February 12, 2013 - 11:55 pm
Last Updated: February 12, 2013 - 11:58 pm

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BROWNSTOWN

The Brownstown Central High School girls junior varsity basketball team entered the Jan. 31 regular-season finale at Paoli with a 17-0 record.

Before the game, coach Lee Ann Borden could tell the girls were nervous. That showed when the team fell behind 7-0 in the first quarter.

But after a timeout, the Braves kicked in gear, took the lead and maintained for a 46-33 victory. That gave them an 18-0 finish to the season, and as far as school officials can determine, that is the first Brownstown JV basketball team — boys or girls — to go undefeated.

“I went to talk to them before warm-ups, and you could just see it in their eyes, they were

nervous,” Borden said. “Paoli wasn’t going to be a gimme game. They knew that it was going to be a fight. We actually came out the first three minutes of the first quarter, and I thought, ‘Oh, no.’ They weren’t playing their type of ball that they needed to do.”

Then came the turning point.

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