Fairfield Girls Had Quite A Run

As nearly every person in Montana (and probably all over the country) already knows, the Fairfield girls' basketball team is pretty darn good, but they lost a game last night. Under normal circumstances, a basketball team losing a game wouldn't be news, after all someone loses every game, but it's the first game they've lost in 5 years! The Choteau Lady Bulldogs were victorious over the Eagles in the Choteau gymnasium yesterday 50/38. That doesn't change the fact that they are a force to be reckoned with, maybe even more so today than yesterday. The pressure is off in a pretty big way.

It was news, BIG news, even covered by ESPN but Fairfield coach Dustin Gordon told the Great Falls Tribune :

"The whole thing has been weird," Gordon said, according to the Tribune. "Three or four years from now, looking back, I'll go, 'Wow!' It's been cool. It's been alright. I'm anxious for you guys [the media] to quit coming to our practice every day, quit coming to our games every time, and just refocus on what's important. And that's winning state."

The media has certainly been covering the girls with increasing regularity, the longer the streak went on - the more people talked about it! Rocky Erickson highlighted the streak on his daily sports just a couple of days ago and our own Mark Daniels used it for Trivia this week as well.

In our discussions here at the station, everyone had a different idea about how and when the streak might end, but we all knew it would. Everything ends, both good things and bad things, everything.

The girls from Fairfield have a lot to be proud of and it's got to be a little relief to them that they can just play basketball now.

Fairfield's streak was the sixth-longest girls' basketball winning streak in the history of the National Federation of State High School Associations -- and the longest since Duncanville, Texas, won 134 games from 1987 to '91.

We congratulate the Eagles for a great run and we're all looking forward to what's going to happen next!