Clarion staff

The Kindersley Composite School senior girls and boys basketball teams have advanced to the next rung in the ladder to the provincials.

The girls hosted the 3A Conference 4 championships this weekend and four of the six teams in attendance were able to move on.

Dakota Retterath of the KCS girls team fights off a Rosetown Royals player during action Friday at Kindersley Composite School.

The KCS girls had to just win their first game Friday afternoon against Rosetown and they did just that. They earned an 88-42 win, which is all they needed. However, there was still more basketball to be played.

In the other game Friday, Maple Creek defeated Outlook 69-34 to advance to the semifinals.

With the win, Kindersley was slotted in to play Caronport and unfortunately, lost 77-59.

Coach Autumn Lane said that the girls played pretty well in this game.

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“We had played them earlier in the year and just lost by 10 points so we were pretty confident,” she said. “We did stay within six of them for pretty much the first half, but then we just lost it.

“They had a lot of height on us and their outside shooting was really good,” she said.

This gave Caronport a spot in the finals.

In the other semifinal game, Maple Creek met Assiniboia in their game and fell short, 61-28.

Caronport was very strong and earned the Conference championship with a 76-55 win Saturday afternoon.

The KCS girls now play in the regional championships. They will travel to Lumsden Friday to take on a team from Sandy Bay. There are four district championships being played Friday and Saturday with four teams in separate locations.

Other teams in Lumsden include host team and Oxbow. The girls must win the two games to advance.

Coach Lane said that they will be working on their shooting and driving to the bucket in preparation for Friday’s game.

KCS boys

The KCS boys basketball team were in Biggar fighting for a chance to advance in the five-team draw.

The boys were seeded second in the conference and played Biggar in the semifinals and they took care of business, winning  64-53.

Coach Jason Hankewich said that the guys were a little rusty heading in.

“Unfortunately, we had a couple of tournaments cancelled on us in March and we actually hadn’t played a game in a month,” he said. “So, the guys were a little rusty and it showed in our first game. It was one that we should have won by 30 or 40, but we just couldn’t score.”

This put them in the finals to play Delisle, who had earlier defeated Rosetown to advance.

The Kobras came up short, 59-51. Both teams now advance to the regional championships.

“You could see that the guys still were feeling a little rusty, but they were slowly shaking it off,” he added. “But it went really rough in the end and the guys couldn’t find their range.”

The boys will be in Clavet and will take on Sandy Bay in their opening game Friday at six. Then they will move on to play Clavet if they win.

They must win both games to advance.

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