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3Riverside, 4- St. Mary’s Rd 1- Fullerton 42, Riverside 36; Shelby-Rising City 52, St.

Thursday, Feb. 8: Boone Central Girls & Boys Basketball vs.

Boys PreK-K 45-47 lbs: Harvey Schwartz (4th), tech fall by Cifuentes (Warrior Wrestling), TF 4-19; dec. by Magana (CWO), 0-6; pinned by Janata (Howells- Dodge), 1:54 B PreK-K 46-48: Sam Frey (1st), pinned Hofer (CWO), :40; tech fall Hastings (Norfolk), TF 17-2; pinned Marino (WarWrest), :54

Luth High NE 13 14 15 6 48 Riverside 11 10 18 12 51 Riverside Scoring: Berger 15, Carraher 12, Keehn 8, Schalk 7, Diessner 5, Heikes 2, Glesinger 2. Riverside 19 22 19 5 65 St.

The Boone Central Cardinals were on the brink this weekend, but could not quite span the threshold and claim the 2024 Mid-State Conference boys basketball championship. Boone Central opened the ‘24 tourney by thrashing Crofton and advanced to the title game with a clutch win over Class C2 #6 ranked Hartington Cedar Catholic.

Class C1 #9 ranked Boone Central (Omaha World-Herald) stacked up two more wins this past week and continued to build momentum for the rapidly approaching postseason. The Cardinals (12-4) have won five straight games, nine of their past 10, and 12 of 14 since an 0-2 start.

Cardinals host Bonge Invite The Boone Central Dale Bonge Invitational is always one of the most anticipated events of the winter sports season. Saturday’s 2024 version was no exception, with a tough field of teams, an enthusiastic crowd and a Cardinal senior battling to a gold medal.

We said it would be a tough week for the Boone Central girls and that’s one of those predictions you hope to be wrong on ... but alas.

Thursday, Feb. 1: Mid-State Conference Girls Basketball Tournament, TBD; BC Middle School Boys Basketball at Fullerton, 4:30 p.m.

Boone Central hosted Lakeview and Scotus for dual wrestling action Thursday. The Boone boys earned a split with the Columbus schools while the Lady Cardinals were edged by Lakeview.