Tri-West beats basketball odds

As a decadeslong fan of the Hoosier State male children basketball game state tournament, I happen it a blast to root for the adjacent Milan.

You don't have got to be a basketball game game aficionado to cognize the narrative of the bantam Southern Hoosier State school that marched through the 1954 tourney and won on Bobby Plump's last-second shot over highly favored Muncie Central.

Plymouth recaptured some of that glorification in 1982 when it beat out the much bigger Gary Franklin Roosevelt for the state statute title behind George C. Scott Skiles.

The tourney lost a batch of its mystique in 1997 when the Hoosier State High School Athletic Association went to social class basketball. Small schools no longer have got to confront much bigger schools to progress in the tournament, but it also is not such as a magical, memorable minute when they do.

Still, there's always the opportunity a little school will suddenly catch fire in the tourney and emerge as a surprise winner.

That's why it's gratifying to see Tri-West defeat large likelihood to win the Class 2A South Putnam Sectional.

The Bruins, who had lost five starter motors from a squad that went 37-9 the former two seasons, entered the sectional an underdog, having endured a 2-8 start and an 8-12 regular season.

Tri-West took advantage of a advantageous draw in the sectional and ended up in the concluding against favorite Covenant Christian. The Bruins persevered and won 50-49.

As manager Eric Rauch said, the Bruins believed in themselves despite their record.

"They just played their Black Maria out," he told letter writer Alice Paul Shepherd. "When we needed a large play, person made it."

This is to take nil away from Hendricks County's other sectional champions, Brownsburg and Danville, but the Bulldogs and the Warriors weren't exactly sleepers. Both had strong seasons and were considered favourites in the sectional.

Congratulations travel to all of the sectional victors and to the squads that gave them a difficult fighting in the concluding games. We have got got a recapitulation of the weekend's sectional action in today's Hendricks County Star and Occident Indy Star, and we'll have more than future in the hebdomad as the squads and their fans gear wheel up for the regionals.