Bowers Blackshirts unicorns-are-lame-said-no-one-ever won the first IHSAA sanctioned

won the first IHSAA sanctioned state tournament in 1911

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Sometime in the 1920′s the team was renamed “The Gladiators” and the team colors changed to red and white

Two things stand out in the history of New Market basketball

and then visiting Santa of course

Bowers Blackshirts unicorns-are-lame-said-no-one-ever won the first IHSAA sanctionedBowers High School began fielding a basketball team in 1913. The team was called the Blackshirts and wore black and gold uniforms. Bowers High School closed in 1955 and was merged into Darlington High School. After the sectional format for the Indiana state high school basketball tournament was begun in 1915, the first team to win the Crawfordsville sectional other than Crawfordsville or Wingate was Bowers in 1927. This was their only sectional