Conway Springs girls clinch CPL title; Oxford boys finish year with win…
Sumner Newscow report —The Conway Springs girls clinched the Central Plains League Championship for the first time in 10 years with a huge 56-42 victory over Cheney.
Conway Springs, which entered the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association for the first time this week at No. 8, is now on a 10-game winning streak and has finished the regular season at 17-3. It has not lost since Jan. 19 against Garden Plain.
Haley Jones led the southern Cardinals with 16 points. Conway Springs took a 9-7 first quarter lead and held a 28-13 lead at the half. Conway Springs held a double digit lead through the second half.
| Girls | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â | Â |
| Conway Springs 56 Cheney 42 | ||||||
| Cheney | 7 | 6 | 12 | 17 | — | 42 |
| Conway Springs | 9 | 19 | 15 | 13 | — | 56 |
| Chaney: Wewe 5, Lonker 4, Higgins 2, Campbell 8, Monson 14, Freund 2, Albers 7. | ||||||
| Conway Springs: Bellar 4, Ebenkamp 9, L. Pauly 2, J. Pauly 8, Hilger 10, Jones 16, Koester 4, Carter 3. | ||||||
In other Sumner County games on Tuesday, Caldwell girls made a huge comeback to beat South Haven, Conway Springs boys get win, and Oxford boys finish regular season on Senior Night with win over Central-Burden: Â Â
Girls
| Garden Plain 55, Belle Plaine 26 | ||||||
| B. Plaine | 9 | 8 | 5 | 4 | — | 26 |
| G. Plain | 12 | 15 | 17 | 11 | — | 55 |
| Belle Plaine — A. Hamersky 9, H. Mowdy 8, D. Smith 4, J. Esterly 3, Lawless 2 | ||||||
| Garden Plain — T. Joplin 18, M. Schmelzer 13, M. Thimesch 7, R. Flax 6, D. Doyle 4, L. Heimerman 4, M. McGregor 3 | ||||||
| Central-Burden 32, Oxford 28 | ||||||
| Oxford | 5 | 6 | 3 | 14 | — | 28 |
| Central | 7 | 10 | 8 | 7 | — | 32 |
| OXFORD: Norris 6, Cook 6, Talbert 3, B. Metz 6, Gaither 2, K. Metz 5. | ||||||
| CENTRAL: Williams 4, C. Mannon 2, W. Libeau 9, R. Libeau 4, S. Mannon 9, Loewer 4. | ||||||
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| Caldwell 55, South Haven 53 | ||||||
| South Haven | 16 | 12 | 16 | 9 | — | 53 |
| Caldwell | 11 | 14 | 14 | 16 | — | 55 |
| South Haven – Turek 28, Resendez 8, Ralls 4, Ray 4, Bowlby 4, Culp 3, Wiley 2. | ||||||
| Caldwell – Blake 16, Stuewe 13, Ward 12, S.Schmidt 8, Bruey 2, K.Schmidt 2, KJ Schmidt 2. | ||||||
| Boys | ||||||
| Conway Springs 52, Cheney 42 | ||||||
| Cheney | 11 | 11 | 14 | 6 | — | 42 |
| Conway | 8 | 17 | 10 | 17 | — | 52 |
| Cheney — B. Jones 9, C. McGuire 7, T. Scheer 6, L. Petz 6, T. Patterson 6, N. Schomacker 3, White 3, Dewey 2 | ||||||
| Conway Springs — J. Dugan 18, D. Murphy 13, J. Winter 13, N. Finstad 6, C. Hedrick 2 | ||||||
| Garden Plain 77, Belle Plaine 42 | ||||||
| B. Plaine | 9 | 12 | 9 | 12 | — | 42 |
| G. Plain | 18 | 21 | 15 | 23 | — | 77 |
| Belle Plaine — B. Happy 12, B. Gooch 9, P. Nolan 8, C. Reynolds 6, C. Happy 4, C. Stover 3 | ||||||
| Garden Plain — Z. May 14, L. Heimerman 12, N. Pauly 11, A. Mannebach 10, A. Becker 8, J. Zoglman 7, R. Gudenkauf 3, G. Eastburn 2, S. Thimmesch 2, Weninger 2 | ||||||
| Caldwell 61, South Haven 30 | ||||||
| S. Haven | 6 | 8 | 13 | 3 | — | 30 |
| Caldwell | 17 | 17 | 21 | 6 | — | 61 |
| South Haven – Browning 3, Pounds 4, Nicholson 8, G.Bacon 4, Ingram 1, Z.Bacon 5, Cully 3, Blaylock 2. | ||||||
| Caldwell – Volavka 9, Bruey 12, Risley 3, Ward 21, Schmidt 2, Kueny 2, Feely 4, Dierking 4. | ||||||
Oxford 66 Central 44
Oxford scoring:Â Grant Smith 12, Camren Clements 12, Tyler Vaughn 5, Kyson Perrin 6, Dylan Reuter 6, Cal Shimkus 6, Steven Eichelberger 6, Kaleb Hunt 4, Chevis Cowdin 5
Central Burden:Â Jackson 7, Lawson 5, Kopplemann 7, Handlin 6, Pippitt 7, Jimenez 12
3 PT FG Oxford: 0, Burden: 3 (Kopplemann 2, Pippit 1)
FT: Oxford: 2/6, Burden: 12/20
Oxford head coach Kyle GreenComments:
Always good to close the regular season with a win. As is the new normal for us, we played 10 kids in the rotation, ended up playing all 12. Our press was solid early, but wasn’t great the entire game. We are still learning the rotations, it’s a different look than what my guys are used too, but they are getting better at it. It’s one of those things that we will continue to play out the season doing and carry over into our summer program.
I know it will be better as we get comfortable. It’s always tough to play a team at home on senior night. Always a lot of emotion involved. Burden came out on a high and played hard, but Grant Smith got on a roll early, couple of steals and finishes at the rim swung the emotion and momentum to us. We were able to take control early. Camren Clements shot the ball well, and we did a nice job of sharing the ball, we had a lot of kids score last night.
Now our regular season is over. We are 8-12 right now. Looks like we will be the #6 seed in a very tough sub-state at Sedan that features #1 seed undefeated Sedan, #2 seed West Elk, and #4 seed Pitt Colgan. We will play Uniontown, who is the #3 seed out of the Three Rivers League. Looking at them on film, they are very thick, strong, athletic team, that pressures the ball, they run their 4 out 1 in motion very well, and are just well coached.
It is going to be a handful of a game, but one thing I do know, is we will compete and play hard for 32 minutes. Our kids have been that way all year, we’ve lost some close games (6 games by 7 pts or less), we are almost there. I’ve been very happy with how this young team has developed and matured this year.Â
