It’s been five years since the Streator girls basketball program posted a winning record and 30 years since the Bulldogs have gone .500 over the course of a full, non-pandemic-shortened season.

First-year head coach Eric Gwaltney would, of course, love to end those droughts. More immediately, however, the former assistant coach and his Bulldogs are focusing on being more competitive on a game-to-game, quarter-to-quarter, play-to-play basis as the start of the season nears.

“I want the girls to go out and play 100% every game, know they’ve put everything they have in every game, have other coaches see the difference in the way we play, and just get better every game,” Gwaltney said of his goals for the upcoming season. “If we can win 10-plus, that’d be a night-and-day difference from la

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