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Groom them, lose them
Your job is to groom the troops as best — and quickly — as possible. And with any luck, you’ll lose your best. Sometimes in mid-season.
Who am I? Any reserve coach for any sport.
“The thing about reserve coaches, you never know who you’ve got week to week, because you might lose your best player to the varsity.”
So says Dunbar boys reserve coach Albert Powell, who has lost a player or two to varsity coach Pete Pullen more than once in the last five seasons.
“But that’s your job, to make your kids into the best players they can be and get them ready for varsity.”
Powell’s Wolverine reserves are 9-0. They’ll have to keep that pace to better last season’s 19-1 team.
• What do the unbeaten Kenton Ridge and Tippecanoe girls teams have in common? Both last lost to Carroll.
The Patriots hung a 50-42 setback on KR in last season’s D-II sectional final. Tipp was stung 44-33 by Carroll in last season’s regional semis.
Kenton Ridge (10-0) will be at Tippecanoe (9-0) in a do-over on Tuesday, Jan. 13. The Central Buckeye Conference showdown was postponed because of worsening weather this past Tuesday. Both are 6-0 in the conference.
• Shelby Pettit is Brookville’s designated point machine. The senior put 25 points on Bellbrook Thursday night. That bumped her career total to 1,001.
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