STAPLETON - The Southwest boys basketball team closed out its regular season with consecutive wins, downing Axtell, 70-25, and Sandhills Valley, 58-28, to improve to 9-13 entering next week’s subdistrict tournament.

The Hi-Line boys basketball team saw a fourth quarter lead melt away to hot-shooting South Loup Friday in a 63-54 defeat. The Bulls had built a 4237 lead through three quarters, but the Bobcats dropped 26 points in the final eight minutes to rally for the victory.

With subdistrict play scheduled to begin next week, the Maywood/Hayes Center boys basketball team continued to prepare with games against Wauneta-Palisade and Chase County. MHC kicked off its week by steamrolling WP 73-39 Feb.

As the postseason quickly approaches, the Medicine Valley boys basketball team ran its record to 13-8 with a Friday matchup with Dundy County Stratton the only game remaining on its regular season schedule.

CAMBRIDGE - Whether they caught the bullies of the RPAC peaking ahead to a Saturday tilt at the Heartland Hoops Classic or not, the Cambridge boys basketball team gave league champion Alma all it could handle Friday before falling late, 52-44.

Seven girls wrestlers from Southwest and Southern Valley/ Arapahoe clinched berths at the Class B State Tournament at district tournaments last week.

LINCOLN - Arapahoe’s Lauren Moore, a two-time State medalist, came up just short of a medal Monday at the Class B Girls State Bowling Tournament. Moore rolled a four-game total of 660, which finished tenth overall.

Area girls basketball teams will play their regular season finales this weekend, then enter postseason play Monday and Tuesday. Though subdistrict brackets were not released as of press time, the postseason outlook for hosts and assignments had taken shape Tuesday.

BARTLEY - Area boys wrestlers begin postseason Friday at the District D-3 and District D-4 tournaments at Elm Creek and Southwest.

The Maywood/Hayes Center girls basketball team picked up two more wins last week as it works to lock down the number one seed in the D1-11 subdistrict. The Wolves won a roller coaster game at Hershey Thursday.