Wolverines season ends in district final thriller

rks a time when every game means the end of the season for one team and a step closer to realizing a state tournament dream for the other. A time when the “losing” team hangs up the jerseys until next season while the “winning” team is blessed with another opportunity on the court. But when two teams play their hearts out with passion and intensity to the end, the excitement level of the crowd reaches deafening proportions, and arch rivals choose hugs over hand slaps at the end of the game, neither team really loses. There were only winners leaving the Waverly gym last Tuesday night after a Class 2A district final between NICL-East rivals Dike-New Hartford and Aplington-Parkersburg provided fans the best that high school basketball has to offer.
As Wolverine head coach Greg Moore described it, it was a “tale of two halves”. In the opening chapter Aplington-Parkersburg would dominate their way to a 15 point lead at the halfway mark, but the rest of the story would see Dike-New Hartford put together a comeback run that would not only erase the deficit, but find them take the lead twice before the Falcons brought the game to a climactic end at 56-55.    
 
For more of this story see the March 5 Grundy Register.