Season concludes for Bison

KEARNEY -- The McCook Bison boys basketball team finished its season after falling to Lexington 66-43 Saturday in a first-round game at the Nebraska Class B-5 district tournament.

The game was played at the University of Nebraska-Kearney Health and Sports Center.

Seniors Brandon Crick and Joel Arterburn led the Bison in scoring.

Crick tallied 9 points and grabbed 6 rebounds.

Arterburn followed with 8 points. Josh Cherry had 6 points and 6 rebounds.

Other senior players playing in their final games in a Bison uniform were Garrett Rippen and Joel Putz with 4 points each and Tony Purvis with 2.

Jacob Zlatkovsky led Lexington with 21 points. Nathan Jaeger followed with 16 points.

Lexington will play Holdrege at 6 p.m. in the B5 district semifinals.

Lexington 15 22 8 21 -- 66

McCook 8 20 5 10 -- 43

McCook: Joel Putz 4, Tony Purvis 2, Brandon Crick 9, Garrett Rippen 9, Joel Arterburn 4, Josh Cherry 8, Cory Gaston 4, Brett Burton 3, John Swanhorst 3.