They called it 'The Streak'
In the Baltimore area, we are quite familiar with the concept of high school teams establishing their dominance in a sport over an extended period, whether it be the Dunbar boys basketball squad with 11 state titles in the last 15 years, or better yet, the Mount Hebron girls lacrosse team, which is working on a string of 11 consecutive championships with 15 titles in 16
years, even as their string of 103 consecutive game wins ended last season.
But nothing here or almost anywhere in the country compares to the streak that ended last weekend in Florida, when the Brandon wrestling team saw its run of 459 dual meet wins come to an end.
The streak, which lasted nearly 34 years and included 66 team state titles and 18 individual crowns, was snapped Saturday in a loss to South Dade in something ironically called the "Jim Graves Beat the Streak" tournament named for the coach who was in charge when the streak started.
