Cambridge basketball/track coach departing

Cambridge coach Jimmy Blex (right) instructs some players entering an RPAC tournament victory in January. The Trojans captured a historic confernce tourney championship during 2017-18 by taking down unbeaten Paxton.

R.B. Headley/McCook Gazette

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Cambridge boys basketball and track-field coach Jimmy Blex is leaving Cambridge after the conclusion of the current school year.

Blex will be venturing east to continue his career as the new track-field head coach and assistant basketball coach at Shelby-Rising City High School.

Blex has been at Cambridge for the past nine years.

He led Trojan boys’ basketball for the past six seasons where he posted a 105-66 record, according to maxpreps.com information.

The Trojans went 12-12 in 2012-13 and never experienced a losing season with Blex.

His overall best season was 2017-18 when Cambridge won 18 games including a historic first RPAC touirnament championship.

The Trojans shocked unbeaten Paxton at McCook Community College on that January evening.

They went on to the district finals before dropping their final game to Arcadia-Loup City.

A losing season seemed imminent when the Trojans were 5-8 into January this year.

However, they would win nine of their final 11 games and were only two points from winning another subdistrict title. South Loup edged Cambridge, 54-52, in what became Blex’s final game with the orang-and-black.