Bedford’s basketball teams traveled north to Monroe Tuesday and came away with a sweep of Monroe.

The girls got it started by holding on for a 39-36 victory in the season opener for both teams.

Kenzi Burmeister came up with a steal in the final seconds, then made a free throw to ice the victory.

“I am proud of Kenzi for making a play at the end,” Bedford coach Bill Ryan said.

There were a lot of first-game mistakes, but the Mules were able to hold on after suffering heavy graduation losses from last year’s team that went to the Division 1 state quarterfinals.

“I think we shared the basketball well,” Ryan said. “We had some tired girls out there at the end, but they had the courage to finish the game.

“We’re young. We had a lot of girls out there who had not seen any varsity action be

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