Rising hopes: Area teams building winning cultures

By MIKE BEAS
Daily Journal sports writer
First Posted: February 20, 2013 - 11:41 pm
Last Updated: February 20, 2013 - 11:42 pm

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The high school athletics spotlight recently turned in the direction of the Indian Creek and Greenwood girls basketball programs.

Since November 2009, coach Dan Burkman’s Braves have won 77 percent of their games (72-22). Along the way Indian Creek players cut down the nets after a pair of sectional titles and made it to a regional final in two different classes — 2A in 2011 and 3A last weekend.

Greenwood over the same span went 57-31 (65 percent), the past two seasons being particularly fruitful with the Woodmen going 38-8 and in 2012 picking up the program’s first sectional trophy.

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