The Junction City Blue Jays overcame a tough Garden City defense to defeat the Buffaloes 54-39 at the Shenk Gym Friday night. The win improved the Blue Jay record to 4-1 while Garden City fell to 5-1.

Junction City jumped out to a first quarter lead and never relinquished it.

Blue Jay coach Nick Perez said it was good for the Junction City players to go 4-1 in December. On the opponent last night he noted Garden City is a good basketball team. “I thought Holloway had them really ready to play and they did some good things to slow us down. But we’ve got to stop making silly mental mistakes, we had some double dribbles, we had some carries, we had some travels, we had some bad shots, but it feels good to be 4-1.” Perez added he was proud of the team’s fight.

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In the girls varsity game Garden City defeated Junction City 64-41.

Junction City trailed by only eight points at halftime before Garden City outscored the Lady Jays 20-7 in the third quarter. Junction City fell to 0-5 while Garden City is 5-1.

The Lady Jays and Blue Jays have reached their winter break. They resume practice on December 28th.