Blue Sky, KG favored in District 9C girls season

Usually the space atop any story previewing the girls 9C basketball season is reserved for the Big Sandy Pioneers. For more than a decade the Pioneers have been the perennial power in the 9C and the overwhelming favorite each and every year. But not this year.

Welcome to the new District 9C, one in which the Pioneers are in a massive rebuilding process and will do so without the familiar voice and pony tail of coach Roy Lackner.

After trying to coach both the boys and girls varsity teams last season, Lackner had to give up one this season and chose to stay with the boys team.

The unenviable ta...