The Junction City Blue Jay and Lady Jay basketball teams make a weekend road trip to western Kansas.

Junction City teams will be at Great Bend Friday night and Dodge City on Saturday afternoon.

Looking ahead at the matchup with Great Bend Blue Jay boys basketball coach Pat Battle wants to see better rebounding by his basketball team. Junction City was out rebounded in their season opening loss at Lawrence. “We need our guys to not settle for one shot, to go in their and get a second, a third shot.”

In the girls contest Lady Jay coach Nate Parks relied on his memory from games against Great Bend and Dodge City last season. “It’s going to be a contrast of styles. One is going to be fast, and Dodge City is going to be big wanting to slow the ball down a little bit more.”

You can hear all the games on the Talk of JC.

The varsity girls game at Great Bend is scheduled to tip off at 6 p.m. and the boys at 7:30. The starting times at Dodge City are one p.m. for the varsity girls and 2:45 for the varsity boys.