Sports

Substate tournaments start this week

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The regular season for all local basketball teams is over, and now they move on to the substate tournament, which begins on Thursday for the boys and Friday for the girls. In the first round, the higher seed hosts the opening game in this win-and-move-on or lose-and-end-season tourney.

Local basketball teams approaching end of season

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Basketball’s regular season is winding down for local teams. Clifton- Clyde and Hanover continue to be dominant teams in the Twin Valley League and the boys and girls teams split when they met up last Tuesday at Hanover.

CCE boys continue with their winning ways

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Boys The Clifton-Clyde boys continued to dominate in their regular season games last week with wins over Concordia, Doniphan West and Washington County. The Eagles are 15-2 on the season.

Hanover boys three-peat as BVL champions

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The Hanover boys three-repeated as Blue Valley League basketball tournament champions on Saturday in Washington, closing out an undefeated year for the Bluejays. The team went 14-0 this year with a first round bye in the tourney. Saturday’s championship continues the winning tradition, where the Hanover boys have now gone undefeated for three years in a row. During that time, including byes, the Bluejays have a 46-0 record over the last three seasons.

Hanover girls win BVL title

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The Hanover girls came into this year’s Blue Valley League basketball championship game on Saturday in Washington with an undefeated record and the aspiration to claim their first title since 2019. The Blue Jays had made it to the title game last year as the #1 seed, but fell to Valley Heights.

Linn girls place third

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The Linn girls were the #2 seed in the Blue Valley League basketball tournament last week in Washington, and while they fell in the semi-final game to #3 seed Luckey, the Bulldogs dominated the third place game against Valley Heights. Linn took a 20-8 halftime lead and then continued to expand their lead, winning 46-24.