FRANKTON — Coach Brent Brobston didn’t lose a lot from 2008-09 to the 2009-10 season from a quantity standpoint, but quantity doesn’t always equal quality. Jon Gardner would be the quality that he lost from last seasons 8-14 finish.
The 6-foot-8 center will be hard to replace, but Brobston knows you can’t replace a kid like Gardner with one player — it takes teamwork.
“Multiple people have to step up in his absence,” said Brobston of replacing Gardner. “I think they will. We’re seeing that early in the season.
“Carson Breckenridge is doing a nice job of stepping up and being a leader,” added Brobston. “Aaron Delong is doing the same.”
Brobston, in his second year as the head coach at Frankton, still has some lofty goals for his team. He said he mainly wants to see improvement every day, but he thinks winning the Central Indiana Conference, or CIC, is within reach.
“We just have a team goal of improving each day and getting better each day, and we can kind of go from there,” said Brobston. “Most teams have a goal to compete for their conference championship, compete for the Madison County title, and compete for a sectional championship.
“Those are three team goals you always want to try to achieve,” he added.
Frankton’s team strengths were summed up by their coach as their team unity being much better, their ability to listen and their effort and willingness to get better. Three things their coach thinks will make them a better team.
“I do feel like our strength is team unity,” stated Brobston. “I think they have a willingness to work hard and the will to win.”
The Eagles’ coach isn’t ready to anoint starters or captains at this point, but one name always seems to be uttered when you speak of this subject – Carson Breckenridge.
Breckenridge embraces the challenge of being a leader.
“I’m just looking forward to playing with my team, and just being a leader and getting my teammates open and scoring,” said Breckenridge.
Winning is the most important goal both individually and from a team standpoint, but Breckenridge did state a couple of personal goals he would like to see play out. The first being on the All-CIC team, and the other being on a sectional championship team.
Winning the CIC would go a long way toward getting Breckenridge on the all-conference team. That is a goal his coach thinks is attainable this season.
“We feel like we can definitely compete in our conference each night and every game,” said Brobston. “There’s not a team in the conference that we don’t feel like we can’t compete with and have a chance or opportunity to win.”
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Bearcats upend AHS
Often basketball is a simple game, and it was certainly true for the Anderson boys basketball team here Thursday night. “We had too many turnovers — that’s the game,” said AHS coach Joe Nadaline after the Indians lost to Muncie Central 54-46 for their eighth straight defeat.
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Bulldogs topple Raiders, win 9th in a row
The Bulldogs keep on rolling. Lapel (16-3) led from start to finish as it beat visiting Shenandoah 69-47 Thursday night to push its winning streak to nine games.
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PHHS shoots down Fishers
It can be easy to take Kellen Dunham for granted. But the Pendleton Heights senior reminded everyone why he is a Mr. Basketball candidate with a furious fourth quarter Thursday night against Fishers. Dunham scored 15 of his game-high 32 points in the final eight minutes, connected on all 10 of his free-throw attempts during the period and drained a 3-pointer from the top of the key early in the frame that sent the fifth-ranked Arabians on their way to a 53-42 victory.
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Frankton subdues Liberty
Youth was on display Thursday night in Frankton as the host Eagles squared off against the Liberty Christian Lions boys basketball team. Neither team had a senior start the game, and Frankton proved to be the more seasoned team in a 68-59 win.
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Indians fall to Bearcats 54-46
Photos from Anderson as the Indians hosted the Muncie Central Bearcats.
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Five for fighting
Like other coaches, Alexandria wrestling coach Jack Grimaldi sometimes has to worry about how to motivate his charges as they head into their matches. That shouldn’t be an issue for him with his five Tigers heading into Saturday’s individual semistate at New Castle.
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Red-hot Lapel limiting miscues
Like any basketball coach, Jimmie Howell knows how important it is for a team to be playing its best basketball as the state tournament draws near.
But what’s going on in Lapel might be redefining that theory.
With a 60-42 win on the road over Class 3A No. 6 Guerin Catholic on Saturday, the Bulldogs pushed their winning streak to eight games. Over the 32-minute course of the game against the Golden Eagles, Lapel committed a microscopic four turnovers. -
PH moves on
On the roster of every successful team is a player or two who will do the unpleasant work. The ones who actually find satisfaction in this pursuit are worth their weight in wins to any coach. Pendleton Heights sophomore Kiawna Cottrell was just that player Tuesday as the Arabians advanced to the second round of sectional play with a 55-45 victory over Greenfield-Central.
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Indians slay Spartans
The last time these two girls basketball teams met on Jan. 17, Anderson defeated Connersville 83-74 in overtime. Lady Tribe coach Chad Cook knew the Spartans would come out with a chip on their shoulder ready for revenge in Tuesday’s opening round of the Class 4A sectional.
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Eagles eke by Raiders
Back in November, the Frankton girls basketball team handled Shenandoah by 29 points. Tuesday’s sectional opener at Shenandoah wasn’t as easy, but the end result was the same as Frankton moved on with a 44-43 win over the host Shenandoah Raiders.
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