As the Hornets looked up to the crowd and showed off the gold ball to roaring cheers, it was almost too much for Brown to handle.  “I felt God’s grace on me,” he said. “I felt my mother. She died in 2010 on a week before the season started.

You couldn’t have scripted a better ending for the Crater girls basketball team to capture its first-ever Class 5A basketball title in a 64-58 overtime thriller that will surely be a storybook milestone for the program on Saturday afternoon.

On Saturday, when the Wizards broke the 101-year title drought with a 60-49 win over Green Mountain in the Class 5A championship at Denver Coliseum, Windsor’s present ballers met the accomplishments of the last title team more than a century ago.