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The residents of Nazareth have long dealt with droughts. The Panhandle hamlet was founded in 1902 by four farming families and a German priest, and for the three hundred or so Texans who now call the town home, “drought” might have been the local term to describe the past few years’ swoon for Nazareth High School’s proud girls basketball program. Though it’s hard to believe anyone else in the state would have called it that.In 2022, the Nazareth Swiftettes failed to reach the University Interscholastic League class 1A state semifinals for the first time in a decade, falling two games short. With that, the number of consecutive seasons the team had gone without bringing a state championship trophy back to the school gym extended to—gasp—two.Well,…

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