Bearcats rally by Charles City

By: 
Kristi Nixon

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GREENE – When Charles City got its biggest lead of the game – six – with six minutes left in this non-conference boys’ basketball game at North Butler, the Comets fatefully chose to play the stall game.
It backfired in a big way as North Butler patiently stuck with its game plan to come back from a 28-21 deficit to beat the bigger school 32-28 on Thursday, Feb. 5.
“We played a zone basically the whole game,” North Butler coach Dave Brown said, “and they had the lead but we just decided to stay in the zone. We wanted to get out there to swing counter to the ball, we just had a feeling that they weren’t going to hold onto it for the remaining three-four minutes...."
More on this story will be found in the Feb. 12 print edition of the Butler County Tribune-Journal.

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