Bison-Cambridge roundball games to benefit state sports shrine

Monday, November 21, 2011

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. -- McCook and Cambridge will get an early jump on the 2011-12 basketball season.

The Bison and Trojans will meet Tuesday, Nov. 22, in exhibition games to benefit the Nebraska High School Sports Hall of Fame. Action gets underway at the Cambridge High School gym with the girls varsity scrimmage at 5:30 p.m., followed by the boys varsity scrimmage at approximately 7 p.m.

Admission prices will be $5 each for adults and $3 each for adults. Net proceeds will support the state prep sports Hall of Fame.

The Nebraska School Activities Association (NSAA), the governing body for prep sports in the Cornhusker State, allows the exhibition games to be played on or before Nov. 29. Only varsity-level competition is allowed, and there are also no games allowed with teams outside Nebraska.

Exhibition games do not count on either's team's regular-season won-loss record, nor will the results count toward either team's respective wild card point averages.

Cambridge head girls basketball coach Brett Webster said he approached Bison girls head coach Jeff Ellis this summer about the possibility of the two schools meeting in the exhibition format as Ellis and his McCook girls participated in summer league play in Cambridge. Webster said the two schools stayed in touch and agreed to meet in the scrimmage format.

Webster said the exhibition will be a game-situation format, with officials and both games going four quarters each eight minutes in length.

The Cambridge coach said he likes the format, as it will give his staff an idea of where the Trojans girls are at after a week of practice.

"It should be a fun scrimmage," Webster said.

The two schools do not meet in varsity girls or boys basketball during the regular season.

The McCook girls and boys officially open the 2011-12 season at Chase County Friday, Dec. 2 in a junior varsity-varsity double-header. Cambridge opens the season Thursday, Dec. 1 at home against Hitchcock County.

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