Posted by Avis Solie - GardnerEDGE
Posted on Mar. 9th, 2010
The GEHS Trailblazers have won the State Basketball Championship before. The last time, however, was in 1996. This year's team would have been preschoolers.
Coach Jeff Langrehr won the State Basketball Championship with his Great Bend Panthers quite recently - in both 2005 and 2006.
As fate would have it, Coach Langrehr and the Blazers will face the Great Bend Panthers tonight - Wednesday, March 10 - in the initial round of State Basketball Tournament play.
GEHS recruited Langrehr away from Great Bend just this year, so he was Coach to most of the Great Bend players that the Blazers will be facing tonight. None of these players, however, would have been in high school at the time of their last State Championship win.
What a strange experience Coach Langrehr faces at this 4:45 pm tip-off. As for me, I'm glad that he's now coaching the Trailblazers! The season started a bit slow because the successful football season...
