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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