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After their Bluegrass Conference tournament games were delayed Monday due to the weather, both Twin Cedars basketball teams resumed play Wednesday. The Sabers girls lost to Moravia 38-26 and the boys defeated Orient-Macksburg 55-36.
The Sabers girls were in their first game of the tournament and lost their opener to the Mohawks, who bested Twin Cedars last month in their first meeting. Rylee Dunkin led the team in points with 10 and rebounds with 11 for a double-double.
The Sabers boys had a trio reach double figures: Devin Arkema had 17, Dallas Clark had 15, and Kade Dunkin had 13.
Both squads will play again Thursday. The Sabers girls will face Diagonal at Mormon Trail starting at 6:00 and the boys will host Moulton-Udell at 7:30.
The Twin Cedars Girls Basketball Squad finished the 1st part of the season with a 4-6 record. The Sabers have seen improvement from all of the girls, especially Rylee Dunkin and Cheyenne Bruns. Both have raised their scoring average by five points from last season. Coach Trent Verwers tells KRLS Sports the girls are getting the fact that they can no longer be the Brooke Roby show and everyone needs to contribute to have a chance to win.
Verwers:
“Rylee Dunkin and Cheyenne have picked up the scoring when Brooke has an off night. We just knew that was going to happen if we were going to win, and five points here and four points there is going to go a long way to giving us a chance in every game.”
The Twin Cedars Girls Basketball Squad will try to break a two game losing streak Friday against Southeast Warren. The Sabers are coming off back-to-back tough loses to Albia on Saturday when they got down big early and Tuesday night losing in the last moments to Moravia. Sophomore Players Cheyenne Bruns and Rylee Dunkin tell KRLS Sports it is all about improvement and confidence.
The Twin Cedars Basketball Squads are back on the court tonight at Moravia. The Saber girls fell to Albia on Saturday 47-31 after falling behind in the first quarter by 12 points. Players Rylee Dunkin, Cheyenne Bruns, and Chloe Swank tell KRLS winning the conference and having their best season in several years is something they have been playing for.
Rylee Dunkin:
One of our big goals is to win the conference, we haven’t won the conference in a long time and that would feel really good to accomplish that.”
Cheyenne Bruns:
“It’s a big goal for everybody and if we do that it’ll show everybody how good we can play and play aggressively.”