BRLD knocks Lady Eagles out of tourney
Thu, 03/11/2021 - 12:00am
Having a Wood River girls’ team playing in the state basketball tournament for the first time in 31 years produced the understandable and typical community-wide week-long bubble of anticipation and excitement, only to have the Lady Wolverines from BRLD (Bancroft/Rosalie/Lyons/Decatur) burst that bubble with a 21-point win in the opening round of the state tourney game played Wednesday, March 3, in the gym of Lincoln’s Southeast High School. On the bright side, the 62-41 loss was just the third one in the Eagles’ season of 27 games. The Eagle ladies entered as the tourney’s number-two seed; BRLD was the seventh-seeded team of the state tournament’s eight teams.
