Win streaks are nothing new to Limon.
Nov. 18 saw the end of a historic run for the Badgers’ football team, courtesy of Lyons, but there still is one worth watching for Limon fans because the school’s girls basketball team went 26-0 during last season’s championship run.
If that feat were to be repeated this season, Limon would find itself fourth on the all-time list for consecutive wins by a Colorado girls basketball team, behind only the 1998-2000 Cheraw teams (55 straight wins), the 1980-83 Bishop Machebeuf teams (74) and the current McClave squad, which has strung together three consecutive undefeated seasons and 75 wins.
Limon has three returning senior starters. But Badgers coach Mark Brown said extending the win streak isn’t his team’s most important goal this season.
“It’d be nice if it keeps going,” he said, “but to me it doesn’t matter. We just want to do well and have a chance to go back to the state tournament.”
The Badgers call District 8 home, which looks to be one of the state’s toughest this season in Class 2A with Simla ranked second in The Denver Post’s preseason poll and Kiowa (Amanda Bartlett) ranked sixth.
Plenty of great competition also will come from other parts of the state. District 2 is home to fourth-ranked Holyoke and fifth-ranked Akron. District 4 should see Burlington, Rocky Ford and Las Animas battling to go to regionals.
Coach Jeff Larsen of Sangre de Cristo scouted his share of District 4 teams last season and praises Rocky Ford guards Dara Dillon and Kelsey Ridennoure.
“If you leave them open, they will drain it,” he said.
Sangre de Cristo is the lone representative from District 1 ranked in the preseason poll and Meeker sits atop a wide-open District 5 group.
