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BEATRICE - The Johnson County Central Lady Thunderbirds went into the Class B Mudecas Basketball Tournament last week as the #4 seed.

JCC vs. HTRS

The Lady Thunderbirds faced the #5 seeded Humboldt Table Rock Steinauer Lady Titans in opening action on Monday, January 7th, but lost by a 46-58 score.

Head Coach Karen Hunzeker commented, “This was our most disappointing game of the season. We went into the locker room at halftime up by 10. We were hitting shots and playing good defense. Then the wheels fell off the cart. They put some pressure on us and we had several turnovers going into the 3rd quarter. HTRS capitalized on those turnovers. We also went cold with our shooting. We shot 27% from the field the 3rd quarter and 20% the 4th while HTRS shot 54% from the field in the 3rd quarter and 50% the 4th. We just could not stop their sophomore Kaitlyn Glather who ended up with 31 points.”

BEATRICE - The Sterling boys’ basketball team had their work cut out for them in the Class A Mudecas Basketball tournament last week as they had to take on the #1 seeded Freeman Falcons right away on Tuesday, January 8th.

Sterling, the #8 seed in Class A, hung tough early in the game as they led 16-13 after the 1st period and carried a nice 32-26 lead into the halftime break.

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BEATRICE - Coming in as the #6 seed in the Class A Mudecas Girls’ Basketball Tournament last week, the Sterling Lady Jets weren’t favored to bring home the first place trophy, but that’s exactly what they did.

Sterling rolled past the #3, #2 and #1 seeds in all three of their games to claim the Class A Mudecas Championship.

Sterling vs. B-D-S

The Sterling Lady Jets faced the #3 seeded Bruning-Davenport-Shickley Lady Eagles in the first round on Monday, January 7th.

The Lady Jets took an early 13-8 first quarter lead with the help of two treys by Malayna Wingert and then got some help in the 2nd period from Carly Wenzl who also hit two treys. Colby Thies added some key freethrows in that period and the Lady Jets led 22-18 at the halftime break.

WILBER, MURDOCK - The Johnson County Central boys’ basketball team came back from the holiday break with a tough assignment as they had to play at Wilber-Clatonia and Elmwood-Murdock on back to back nights last week.

JCC vs. Wilber-Clatonia

The Thunderbirds made the trip to Wilber-Clatonia on Thursday night, January 3rd and came up short against the host Wolverines.

JCC was tied with W-C after the first quarter of play at 14-14, but trailed 20-24 at the half. The Wolverines outscored JCC 9-6 in the third period and then went on a final 15-6 run in the 4th quarter to knock off the T-birds, 48-32.

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DORCHESTER, STERLING - The Sterling boys’ basketball team played in back to back games last week against the Dorchester Longhorns and the Humboldt Table Rock Steinauer Titans.

Sterling vs. Dorchester

The Sterling Jets made the trip to Dorchester on Thursday night, January 3rd and came home with a huge 70-30 victory.

The Jets racked up 25 points on the Longhorns in the first period and led 41-20 by the halftime break. They outscored their hosts 17-3 in the 3rd period and 12-7 in the final quarter to cruise to the easy win.

Logan Jasa poured in 24 points in the victory with 9 field goals, one trey and 3/3 freethrows. Caleb Dolbow followed in scoring with 19 points off of 6 field goals, one trey and 4/4 freethrows.

Derek Buss added 9 points with 4 field goals and 1/3 freethrows; Tristan Dirks tacked on 7 points with 1 field goal, one trey and 2/5 freethrows and Sam Boldt added 5 points off of one field goal and one trey.

DORCHESTER, STERLING - The Sterling Lady Jets just kept on rolling last week as they picked up two big wins against Dorchester and Humboldt Table Rock Steinauer.

Sterling vs. Dorchester

The Lady Jets made the trip to Dorchester on Thursday night, January 3rd and launched a second quarter comeback to help them pull out a tough 41-36 road win.

Dorchester led the Lady Jets 9-6 after the first quarter, but Sterling went on a 16-8 run in the 2nd period to carry a 22-17 lead into the halftime break.

The Lady Longhorns edged Sterling 10-7 in the 3rd period before the Lady Jets mounted a 12-9 rally in the final period anchored behind Colby Thies’ 10 points in that quarter alone.

Thies finished the game with 20 points off of 7 field goals and 6/10 freethrows. Malayna Wingert followed in scoring with 9 points off of three treys while Ella Wingert scored 4 points from 1 field goald and 2/2 freethrows.

The Johnson-Brock Eagles won the championship title of the HTRS holiday tournament played at HTRS high school December 28-29. Johnson-Brock kicked off the tournament by defeating the Pawnee City Indians 72-38 on Friday. Johnson-Brock controlled the shooting efforts in the first half and took the lead 28-20 at halftime. In the third quarter, Johnson-Brock doubled their score by putting another 28 points on the board and holding Pawnee City to only eight points. Johnson-Brock widened their margin 56-28 by the end of the quarter. In the fourth quarter, the Eagles outscored Pawnee City 16 to 10 to end the game with a 72-38 win.

Kaden Glynn topped Johnson-Brock in scoring with 20 points. Cole Fossenbarger added 15 points. Dylan Rowe and Ty Hahn contributed 13 and 11 points respectively.

The Johnson-Brock girls won the championship title of the HTRS Holiday Tournament played December 28-29 at HTRS high school gymnasium. The Johnson-Brock girls faced Pawnee City in the opening round of the tournament and took control of the game by scoring 17 points in each quarter of the first half for a 34-12 lead. Scoring was at a slow pace in the third quarter as Johnson-Brock only added six points to Pawnee City’s five points. The Lady Eagles outscored Pawnee City by eight points in the fourth quarter to win the game 60-29.

It was a balanced scoring attack among the Lady Eagles as Jayse and Jordan Koehler each totaled 13 points. Logan Edwards and Elizabeth Hodges each added 11 points. Hailey Sandfort contributed nine points in this game.

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