Fort Lupton riding 13-game win streak

BY STEVE SMITH SSMITH@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Fort Lupton High School boys basketball coach Jim Roedel grew a beard over the holidays. And while he plans to trim it every so often, he doesn’t plan to shave it o until his Bluedevils team loses a game.

rough Jan. 24, the beard was in place. Fort Lupton’s winning streak reached 12 after a 62-45 home- oor win over Middle Park on Jan. 23. Other recent wins were against Arvada (91-35) and a 5844 win over Platte Canyon.

e big change has been a switch in the o ense.

“I told the boys I’ll take responsibility for the rst loss,” Roedel said after the win against Arvada. “I didn’t know the style we needed to play and what we had. If we were to go back and play that game again, we wouldn’t have the result we had. Eaton was the same way. It took us a half to gure it out. We learned the style of play that we are, which is athletic, trap, full court, press, get after it.”

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