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Summer basketball is in full swing as Cross County GBB and Centennial Broncos Girls Basketball were both in action at the Cougars’ team camp Thursday. 📸 Eden Peterson | Marley Olson | kelsey brehm | Adrienne

Coastal Carolina/Murray State championship series would feed generations of families

We will get back to your regularly scheduled sports coverage shortly, but first one more personal life update: This afternoon I got to start the first day of forever with my eternal favorite.

It’s a basketball smorgasbord tonight in Utica with 11 area athletes set to compete in the Centennial all-star games. York has Lainey Portwine, Chloe Koch and Ryan Huston in action. Stay tuned for updates. #nebpreps

Team Red with an 18-13 lead over Team Navy after one quarter. Koch with four points, Portwine three points, two boards and an assist for Navy.

27-26, Team Red at half. Under bettors feeling good at the moment Nick Whyman

It’s 39-35, Team Red heading to the fourth

Portwine with a steal to a layup and it’s a 39-37 game. Timeout Red, 7:53 to play

Team Navy gets a steal and a layup with a whistle at the buzzer, but they miss the and-1 for the win and so we go to OT tied at 51

It’s 18-16 Team Red after one quarter in the boys game

43-34 Team Navy at halftime. Huston with 8 points and 3 assists for Team Red, Jarin Tweedy has 7 points and 3 boards for Navy

57-50 Team Navy heading to the fourth

Sometimes when you’re going for some candids, you get spotted: like tonight at the Centennial all-star game, courtesy of York’s Lainey Portwine and Chloe Koch.

Some #’s from last night’s girls game: Chloe Koch (York) 9 pts, 3 reb, 2 blk Lainey Portwine (York) 11 pts, 6 reb, 2 ast, 2 stl Gavin Gilmore (Hampton) 3 pts, reb, ast Courtney Carlstrom (High Plains) 4 pts, reb, ast catelynn bargen (Centennial) 2 pts, 6 reb, ast

#’s from last night’s boys game: Ryan Huston (York) 17 pts, 5 ast, 3 reb, blk Devin Slawnyk (Centennial) 2 pts, reb, ast Kiffin Theobald (FC) 12 pts, 11 reb, ast Jarin Tweedy (FC) 11 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast Brock Allen (Cross County) 2 pts, 4 reb Mason Vossler (EMF) 2 pts, reb

I’ll be MIA the rest of the week for honeymoon duties, but shout out to Nick helping out with some VB photos tonight. We’ll be back in action starting Monday.

The York Duke GBB girls were in action Thursday as they hosted their annual team camp. EMF, High Plains, Nebraska Lutheran and Hampton/Heartland were also in attendance. #yorkdukes #nebpreps 📸 Kinslee Kern | Claire Koch | murfee nickels | Addison Andersen

Congratulations to your 2024-25 York News-Times Athletes of the Year: YNT Female Athlete of the Year: Annah Perdue, SO., York YNT Male Athlete of the Year: Gage Friesen, SR., High Plains Tyler Herman HPC STORM

Capping off the all-star season with the NCA basketball games. York has Chloe Koch for the girls and Ryan Huston for the boys. Also in action for the boys game is McCool Junction Boys Basketball Mapieu Kuochinin and Fillmore Central’s Dan Stoner. #nebpreps

Some unofficial #’s from tonight’s NCA 🏀 games: Chloe Koch 3 pts, 5 ast, 4 stl, 1 reb Ryan Huston 22 pts (10-12 FG), 7 reb, 6 ast, 1 stl Mapieu Mapieu 3 pts, 7 reb, 1 blk Dan Stoner 8 pts, 4 reb, 4 ast, 1 stl York Duke GBB York Duke Boys Basketball McCool Junction Boys Basketball FC Boys Basketball #nebpreps