Rangers Soak Up Small-Town Love in Big-Time Way

Evansville Courier & Press › March 29, 2006

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Could Saturday night's conclusion to Forest Park repeating as Class 2A state basketball champions that afternoon in Conseco Fieldhouse by defeating Fort Wayne Harding 61-55 have fit better?

After four tumultuous weeks of Hoosier Hysteria in a farming community gone certifiably bonkers over its team, could the concluding image have been more appropriate than a victory parade down Main Street with the boys riding on a hay bale-filled flatbed trailer towed by a huge John Deere tractor?

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Rangers Soak Up Small-Town Love in Big-Time Way

"Just wouldn't have been right for a bunch of guys from the farm to ride in a bus or fancy car," said co-captain Brandon Hopf. "As many bales of hay as a lot of us ha...

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