Two Bison players, coach in Cambridge All-Star Basketball Games

CAMBRIDGE, Nebraska -- Some of the top high school basketball talent in southwest Nebraska will be on display Friday, May 27, at the Cambridge High School gym.

The 27th annual Cambridge Community School Organization (CSO) All-Star Basketball Games will be held Friday night. The girls contest is set to open at 6 p.m., followed by the boys game at approximately 8 p.m.

Admission prices will be $5 for each adult, and $4 for each student. Proceeds from the annual all-star contests will be used to support various Cambridge CSO activities throughout the school year.

Players must be 2011 high school graduates to be eligible to participate in Friday's contests. A CSO all-star games committee selects the coaching staffs for the four teams. Those coaches then select players nominated by their respective high school head coaches.

Several coaches and players from schools in the Gazette coverage area will participate in the all-star classic.

Two former McCook standouts are on the West rosters. Connor Larson will play for the West boys and Gretchen Sehnert will be on the West girls squad.

McCook head girls basketball coach Jeff Ellis will head the West All-Star girls. Ellis will be assisted by Matt Cox of Hayes Center.

Darren Tobey of Southern Valley will head the East girls squad. Chris Watt of Southwest will be an assistant on the East boys squad, while Trent Florom of Medicine Valley will assist on the West boys team.

Wauneta-Palisade standouts

The West boys team will likely try to push the tempo, with Larson and three standouts from Class D-2 state tournament runner-up Wauneta-Palisade on the roster. The W-P players include Chris Bartels, Ricky Martin and Drew Harris. Clive Brown of Hitchcock County, Jordan Faimon of Dundy County-Stratton, Tanner Stromberger of Chase County and Marty Warneke of Medicine Valley are also on the West boys roster.

The East boys feature Arapahoe's TJ Enchenberger and Garth Walbridge, Justin Malleck of Southwest and Cole Taylor of Cambridge.

Arapahoe girls trio on East team

Arapahoe has three representatives on the East girls roster, including Michele Borden, Makayla Wendland and Cayla Polston. Cambridge also has Halee Long and Taylor Dauwen on the East girls roster, along with Adie Nielsen of Eustis-Farnam and Paige Quinn of Southern Valley.

The West girls feature Sehnert plus a pair of DCS standouts in Brittany Shillington and Amanda Calvert, Lexee Reichert of Chase County, Adrianne LiaKos, Bethany Reiner of Wauneta-Palisade, plus the Hayes Center duo of Molly Cox and Tierney Tyan.

CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY SCHOOL ORGANIZATION

ALL-STAR BASKETBALL GAMES

Friday, May 27 at Cambridge High School gym

Team Rosters

EAST GIRLS

Head coach -- Darren Tobey, So. Valley

Assistant -- Cole Carraher, Loomis

Paige Hasty, Holdridge

Michele Borden, Arapahoe

Makayla Wendland, Arapahoe

Cayla Polston, Arapahoe

Halee Long, Cambridge

Taylor Dauwen, Cambridge

Britta Bergman, Loomis

Adie Nielson, Eustis-Farnam

Paige Quinn, Southern Valley

Taylor Summer, Elwood

WEST GIRLS

Head coach -- Jeff Ellis, McCook

Assistant --Matt Cox, Hayes Center

Bethany Reiner, Wauneta-Palisade

Brittany Shillington, Dundy Co.-Stratton

Amanda Calvert, Dundy Co.-Stratton

Gretchen Sehnert, McCook

MaKayla Gardner, Wallace

Shanice Harris, Wallace

Lexee Reichert, Chase County

Adrianne LiaKos, Medicine Valley

Molly Cox, Hayes Center

Tierney Tyan, Hayes Center

EAST BOYS

Head coach -- Mike Brummer, Alma

Assistant -- Chris Watt, Southwest

Robby Allmand, Holdridge

Jared Nedrig, Holdridge

Max Boehler, Alma

Blake Weeder, Alma

TJ Eichenberger, Arapahoe

Garth Walbridge, Arapahoe

Justin Malleck, Southwest

Cole Taylor, Cambridge

Zeb Lund, Bertrand

Parker Lindstrom, Loomis

WEST BOYS

Head Coach --Terry Fowler, Wallace

Assistant-- Trent Florom, Med. Valley

Chris Bartels, Wauneta-Palisade

Ricky Martin, Wauneta-Palisade

Drew Harris, Wauneta-Palisade

Clive Brown, Hitchcock County

Jordan Faimon, Dundy Co.-Stratton

Connor Larson, McCook

Sean May, Wallace

Tanner Stromberger, Chase County

Marty Warneke, Medicine Valley

Michael York, Perkins County