Wolves roar past Paxton after slow start; Raiders and Longhorns win

Recaps from Gazette-area boys basketball games last weekend:

Friday

Med Valley 64,

Arapahoe 37

CURTIS, Neb. — Lucas Einspahr’s 23 points and Brody Senff securing 18 rebounds topped the 5-5 Raiders’ latest big win.

Senff scored another 13 points while Mason Roblee mixed in 12 with nine rebounds.

Clayton North and Aiden Roush netted seven points each for Arapahoe.

MayHay 53,

Paxton 50

PAXTON, Neb. — Maywood-Hayes Center overcame an 18-4 first quarter thanks largely to Charle Callis scoring 18 points, Jaxson Anders 16 and 11 from Kody Schwenk.

Callis also corraled 10 rebounds and swiped four steals to help the Wolves reach 9-3.

Sawyer Dibbern and Kade Broz netted three points apiece with Grady Erickson dropping through two.

The Paxton Tigers slipped to 7-3 overall.

Trailing 18-4, the Wolves unleashed 26 second-quarter points to claw within 31-30 at intermission.

They didn’t overtake the Tigers until a 14-11 final quarter.

Saturday

Chase County 60,

Kimball 43

IMPERIAL, Neb. — The Chase County boys knocked off 8-1 Kimball as Noah Rau scored 17 points, Taylor Jablonski 13 and Camron Lempke 11 with Rau hitting seven of his eight field goals.

Kole Clevenger sent six assists to help the Longhorns (4-6) suffer no letdown from their 70-39 ambush of Dundy County-Stratton Tuesday evening.

Lukas Fries added nine points and Carson Terryberry eight.

Southwest 69,

Wau.-Palisade 42

BARTLEY, Neb. — The Southwest Roughriders finished their fourth win this season (4-7) though no other details were obtained.