Fueled by love and hate, Winnebago wins respect (racism on the way to a state championship)

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DARIN EPPERLY/WORLD-HERALD NEWS SERVICE
Winnebago's David Wingett, left, and Kobe Smith sit and enjoy the moment after the Indians won the Class C-1 title.

http://www.neprepzone.com/sports/chatelain-fueled-by-love-and-hate-winnebago-wins-respect/article_936ec344-e6a8-5f41-8881-5a5228425443.html


POSTED: SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 2015 1:00 AM | UPDATED: 1:20 AM, SUN MAR 15, 2015.
Column by Dirk Chatelain / World-Herald staff writer

To read more on Winnebago, check out Dirk Chatelain's Thursday feature, Friday column and Saturday column.
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LINCOLN — With 32 seconds left, Mathew Wingett scored his 22nd point, the last one of his high school career. The horn blared, and he and his younger brother, David, walked together off the court.

They’d played every second of the state championship game. Finally, they could rest.

For the first time, Mathew looked up at his home crowd. The faces that watched him grow up. The faces that followed the team to little gyms across northeast Nebraska. The faces that devoted a weekend to chase Winnebago’s first state championship in 75 years.

“It’s about you,” his mom had told him this season, “but it’s bigger than that, too.”

FULL story, racism on the way to a state championship, and more at link.