Basketball – 2008: Lincoln High, 1958-59
Won state championship and extending a winning streak that reached a Class A record the following year.
Basketball – 2007: Clatonia, 1958
The only undefeated team in the 1957-58 season, Clatonia went 27-0 to win Class D while scoring 71.6 points and allowing 39.6 points per game during the season. Starter Oren Miller is the father of Angie Miller, an all-stater on Wilber-Clatonia’s silver anniversary girls basketball team.
Basketball – 2006: Utica, 1956-57
Class C State Champions:
Basketball – 2005: Holstein, 1955-56
Completed a two-year sweep as Class E champions. Went 27-0 in 54-55, accumulating more than half of the team’s wins during a 50-game win streak; and the first of back-to-back the Class E state championships. The 1955-56 team won all of its 28 games but was forced to forfeit five games because of an NSAA […]
Basketball – 2004: Omaha Holy Name, 1954-55
Omaha Holy Name Boys basketball (23-0) of 1954-55, coach by Bob Gates.
Basketball – 2003: Syracuse, 1953-54
Undefeated Class C State Champions (27-0)
Basketball – 2002: Chester, 1952-53
Class D undefeated state basketball champions, 1953: Larry Cook Allan Dueyn Don Fraley Jerry Fraley Richard Fraley Doyal Hartley Cecil Hayes Larry Houchin Gary Parsons Kenneth Ray Reuben Schleifer, Coach James Irwin, Ass’t. Coach Lavern Alloway, Student Manager
Basketball – 2001: Chadron Prep: 1949-50, 1951-52, 1954-55
1949-50 Class C Champions: 1951-52 Class C State Champs: 1954-55 Class C State Champions Chadron Prep Delegation at 2001 Honors Program: Picture courtesy Chadron State College Alumni Association
Basketball – 2000: Millard, 1951
1951 Class D basketball championship team.
Basketball – 1999: Lincoln Northeast, 1949-50
The 1949-50 Lincoln Northeast basketball team, a veteran team that had won the Class A state championship the previous year, played a good one on their new coach. In Ed Johnson’s first game, they lost. Scottsbluff beat ‘em. At Northeast, no less. Apparently, no one pushed the panic button. The team did not lose another […]
