FRILLS CORNERS, Pa. – Coming off its first District 9 title in school history expectations were high coming into the 2018 season for the North Clarion girls’ basketball team.
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But no one. Not the players. Not head coach Terry Dreihaup or assistant coach Teri Obenrader saw 27 straight wins coming, an unbeaten record until a PIAA second-round overtime loss to Farrell.
After all, how could they?
No District 9 Class 1A team had marched through the season to a D9 title unbeaten since at least the 1995 season and only one team had done so in any classification.
But that is exactly what the She-Wolves did. From an opening-game win over Clearfield in the Brookville Tournament through a District 9 title game win over A-C Valley and then into a PIAA playoff win over Cornell, North Clarion didn’t taste defeat and in the process wrote its name into the laurels of District 9 basketball.
Chris Rossetti had a chance to sit down with seven of those She-Wolves – Cierrah Manross, Makenzie Bauer, Tori Obenrader, Abby Gatesman, Haley Sherman, Gabby Carll and Gabby Schmader to talk about their season.
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