With a roster filled with plenty of youth and inexperience, the Bridgeport boys basketball team expected to feel some growing pains this season. That certainly proved to be true, especially early on, as the Bulldogs split their first eight games and just couldn’t find the right consistency. It didn’t help that three of those four losses came to opponents that ended up finishing the season with 23 or more wins.
“We knew heading into the season we would have a youthful group that would show up each day and compete,” Bridgeport head coach Sean Sterkel said. “Early in the season we were a turnover-prone group.”
As 2023 began, the Bulldogs began turning the corner by reeling off five wins in a row in the month of January. Included in that stretch was a second- place finish in the championship game of the South Platte Valley Association Tournament. Just a couple weeks later, Bridgeport picked up a thirdplace finish in the Western Trails Conference Tournament.The Bulldogs then entered the postseason with good momentum after winning two of their final three regular-season games.
