A-B men have battled all season

THESE days, Alderson-Broaddus' basketball team functions smoothlyon offense, plays tenaciously on defense and wins and wins and wins.

Which is something that the Battlers' new coach, Greg Zimmerman,never would have envisioned when he first met the small anddysfunctional assemblage of players that he inherited when he arrivedin Philippi last fall.

"The team was in disarray," Zimmerman said.

With good reason.

Not long before Zimmerman's arrival, the Battlers' previous coach,Brett Vincent, abruptly resigned to become the coach at Lewis CountyHigh School.

By the time A-B hired Zimmerman, a former Battler player, only acouple of weeks remained before …