MIDDLEBURY — A frantic fight for a rebound produced a whistle in the final seconds of Saturday's girls basketball game between No. 8-ranked Northridge and No. 16 Warsaw.
With :02 left in the game, a foul was called on the Raiders' Morgan Cross.
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