Going 25-0 and being unnoticed is no easy feat, but the Winters Mill girls basketball team somehow managed to pull it off.

The Falcons, who dominated Carroll County and the Blue Ridge division of the Monocacy Valley Athletic League, are the most anonymous unbeaten team you've ever not heard of, heading into tonight's showdown with unbeaten Mount Hebron in the Class 2A semifinal of the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association state tournament.

Some of that, coach Bernie Koontz says, is because the team didn't have a great season last year, though they won six of their last eight. No doubt, some of the Falcons' anonymity is due to the fact that Carroll County is not considered a hoops hotbed for girls, with only two state championships in the last 35 years.

But Koontz says he and his players are OK with not being known. At least for now.

"The kids are pretty low-key," said Koontz. 'They go about their business. They get their job done. They work well together. We've tried to get on people's radar and get the respect of others. I think we're still trying to do that. Hopefully, in the next week or so, we'll earn a little more respect."

The Falcons have a marquee player, namely 5-foot-8 senior guard Cassie Cooke. Cooke, who transferred to Winters Mill from Westminster this year, shares scoring leadership with fellow seniors Jordan Neville and Jen Peters at 13 points per game, but is the team's leading rebounder at nine per contest, and shoots 48 percent from the field, while providing intangibles for the Falcons.

"She gives us a well-rounded player that can play both offense and defense," said Koontz. "She gives us another option to be able to handle the ball, or she can slide inside if need be. The biggest thing is she's given us a little bit more depth. That's helped us and she's given us a leader on the floor when need be."