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While neither team was able to cut down the nets, Eastsideâs boys and girls basketball teams matched some history this season.
For just the second time in school history, both the Blazer boys and Blazer girls reached sectional championship games.
In February, the girls lost to Bluffton 38-31, and the boys lost to Churubusco Saturday 49-41.
The only other time this happened was the 1976-1977 season. The Eastside boys lost to DeKalb in the championship game, but the girls won the first of three straight sectional crowns, defeating Angola 41-38.
The girls have played for sectional championships on eight occasions, capturing titles in the 1977, 1978, 1979 and 2016 seasons. Of their four losses, two were by seven points or less.
Heavily-favored Garrett, who entered play ranked fourth in Class 3A, was knocked off in the quarter-final round of the Northeast Corner Conference tournament Wednesday. The Railroader boys were defeated in