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The Central High School girls basketball team of Lonaconing holds the Allegany County basketball record for consecutive wins having won 65 games in a row. This was over the course of three seasons; 1922, 1923, and 1924.
Central’s winning streak was snapped by Beall High School in 1924 when they were defeated by a score of 36 to 35 in a Western Maryland Interscholastic League (WMIL) championship playoff game. The WMIL was, at one time, the oldest continuous high school athletic league in the country.
Front row, left to right: Helen Danahey, Annie Lauder, Mildred Clark, and Esther Smith.
Back row, left to right: Dr. Henry Hodgson, coach; Josephine Waddell, Mary Moody, physical education teacher; Marie Boyd, and Professor Arthur F. Smith, Principal.
Additional information, particularly in reference to the Western Maryland Interscholastic League, provided by Joseph White.