Pawnee hoops team accomplishes unexpected repeat

Author:
ICT Staff
Updated:
Sep 12, 2018
Original:
Apr 6, 2009

When you lose seven seniors - five of them starters - including Keaton Page who goes on to start at Oklahoma State as a true freshman, nobody expects you to repeat as state champion. That didn’t stop the Pawnee Black Bears, who collected a 44-43 overtime victory over Talihina in the Oklahoma High School Basketball Championships March 14.

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