WNCC basketball teams set for final home games this weekend

The Western Nebraska Community College men’s and women’s basketball teams will have their final home games of the year Saturday and both teams are looking to get momentum heading into next weeks Region IX tournament.

The Cougar women will open things at 1 p.m. against Otero Junior College followed by the Cougar men tipping off at 3 p.m. against Lamar Community College.

Saturday’s home contests will the last for the eight sophomores on both teams. The Cougar women, 24-4 and winners of their last seven, will say goodbye to five players – Alison Cheney, Chelsea Lyles, Emma Beddome, Carly Glisan and Dana Iverson.

The men will lost three sophomores off of this year’s 15-13 team in Doradji Wilson, David Busma and Kelvin Franklin.

The Cougars will also the basketball booster families during pre-game festivities.

After Saturday’s home games, the Cougars will have one more regular season game left when they travel to Torrington, Wyo., to face Eastern Wyoming College in a men’s, women’s doubleheader.