LINCOLN (WCIA) — The pain of losing last year’s sectional title game to Mahomet-Seymour at home still lingers for this year’s Lincoln women’s basketball team.
“We came into this season and said, ‘This is the season for revenge. We want to get everyone who got us last year back,” Lincoln junior guard Kloe Froebe said.
“We don’t like losing and it cuts deep because we’re like, ‘It’s just not us,'” Lincoln junior guard Becca Heitzig said.
After losing three starters and having no seniors on the team this year, the Railers are preparing for a season never before seen at Lincoln. At 28-0, the Railsplitters broke the school record for single-season wins, consecutive wins and captured the program’s first conference title since 1999.
“I’m really not concerned with the record,” Lincoln coach Taylor Rohrer said. “Our goal is to get to the state, our goal has never been to go undefeated. It’s just that the kids have a direct mindset of what they want.
But it wasn’t all easy for the Railers as top assist and second-highest scorer Becca Heitzig missed more than a month with a broken hand. She has since returned, and Lincoln is focused on the ultimate goal.
“A state championship of course,” Froebe said.
“I think it’s just something that’s deep inside of us, we’re not underachieving,” Heitzig said. “I feel like it’s just that we want to be the best.”
“I think we know we can do it, we just have to go out and perform,” Froebe added.
As the top seed in the Rochester Section, that title race begins next weekend at Bloomington Regional for the Railers.
