CURTIS - Medicine Valley hosted Alma for a girls/ boys basketball doubleheader Friday and dropped both ends as Alma defeated the Raiders 71-14 in the girls contest and 53-40 in the boys’ game. In the girls matchup, Alma took control early and never looked back, winning 71-14.

BARTLEY - The Southwest girls basketball team rolled to its sixth-straight victory Friday night, downing Franklin, 50-26, to imrpove to 7-1 this season. The Roughriders jumped to a 22-4 lead after a qyarter, then coasted through the final three periods to the victory.

HAYES CENTER - In a defensive struggle much of the night, the Cambridge boys basketball team found strings of points that the Wolves couldn’t match as the Trojans traveled to Hayes Center and left with a 54-40 victory.

HAYES CENTER - The Maywood-Hayes Center girls basketball team continued its recent streak of dominance, rolling past Cambridge 59-14 on Friday. After an upset loss to the Trojans coming out of the holiday break a year ago, MHC Coach Kim Stengel said the team was focused on not letting that happen again.

PLEASANTON - The Arapahoe wrestling team returned from break by competing at 24-team Pleasanton invite Saturday. The Warriors scored 51.5 points to tie for 14th place at the meet, earning two medals.

PLEASANTON - Both the Cambridge boys and girls basketball team dropped their openers Friday to the hosts at the Pleasanton Holiday Basketball Tournament. Saturday, each bounced back with victories in the third place games, the girls defeating Ravenna and the boys taking down Anselmo-Merna.

High School Girls Basketball Scores Friday, December 27 Pleasanton 43, Cambridge 33 Arapahoe 52, Franklin 26 Southern Valley 40, Blue Hill 18 Saturday, December 28 Cambridge 47, Ravenna 30 Lawrence-Nelson 49, Hi-Line 41 Maywood-Hayes Center 56, Paxton 31 Southern Valley 49, Arapahoe 26 Up Next Friday, January 3 Alma @ Medicine Valley 3 p.m. Cambridge @ Maywood-Hayes Center 4:30 p.m.

EUSTIS - The Hi-Line girls basketball team had its two-game win streak snapped and the boys also fell to visiting Lawrence-Nelson Saturday. The girls put togather a strong first half and led 28-16 at the break, but managed just 13 points in the second half as the Raiders came roaring back for a 49-41 win.

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PAXTON - In the first night of a holiday triangular, the Maywood-Hayes Center boys and girls basketball teams both emerged victorious over hosting Paxton Saturday. The girls ended a hardfought victory with an exclamation point, blowing Paxton away in the fourth quarter of a 56-31 victory, their seventh of the season.