Lake Country Faces: First-year basketball player makes team, mother, school proud

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Lake Country Faces: First-year basketball player makes team, mother, school proud

PINE RIVER — At the Jan. 27 boys basketball game between Pine River-Backus and Browerville/Eagle Valley, the PR-B Tigers lost 88-58. But one student caught the attention of the whole audience, and that made PR-B School Board member Roger Hoplin sit up and take notice. "I gotta commend you," Hoplin said at the Feb. 3 regular school board meeting. "I went to the boys basketball game where they played Browerville. I didn't know any of the details, …