Slippery Rock High School graduate Zach Sarver, right, shown in the 2002 District 10 playoffs here, is now the head boys basketball coach at Sharon. He led the Tigeras to the District 10 championship this season.

SHARON — Back in 2002 at the end of Zach Sarver’s senior year as a point guard for the Slippery Rock High boys basketball team, then Rockets’ boys coach Chris Burtch made an observation.

He said Sarver was going to make a great head basketball coach one day.

“I don’t know if I’m there yet,” Sarver said, laughing. “We’ve had a good season.”

That’s an understatement from Sarver, who led the Sharon boys basketball team to its first District 10 championship since 1991 with a 71-66 victory over Hickory Saturday.

The Tigers have won 20 straight and their 23 wins is the most in three decades.

“It’s a credit to our kids and the kids from the last several years,” said Sarver, who is in this third season as the head coach at Sharon. “They laid the foundation and the kids we have now have bought in. All the guys are engaged right now.”

To learn more about Zach Sarver, read the Butler Eagle.