The 1981 Okemos girls basketball team lost its opening game to Holt in a double-overtime nail-biter.

Little did that group know that would turn out to be its only setback en route to a Class B state championship and a 49-game winning streak over two seasons.

The team's amazing run earned it a spot with the 2025 class set to be inducted into the Greater Lansing Sports Hall of Fame on Aug. 7.

"This was a special team. We had all the components of what you need to win a championship," said Sue Tucker, one of the standout players for the 1981 Okemos squad. "This was a team that was never going to give up. That word wasn't even in our vocabulary, and from the beginning of the year we knew what we were capable of accomplishing."

Tucker was the team's leading scorer and rebounder and helped p

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