Congratulations to Kayce Duvall, Jayme Sifferman and Kevin Stander. They signed last week to play college basketball.

The Republic Tigers jumped on top early and led most of the way through three quarters, but couldn’t hold off a late charge by St. Louis Soldan, and fell in the state’s Class 4 3rd-place game, 62-55. Republic’s 4th-place state finish is the best for a Republic boys basketball team in three decades. After shooting [...]

The Kearney Bulldogs showed why they’re considered one of the best defensive teams in the state in their state semifinal matchup against Republic, stifling the Tigers in a 43-31 victory. Republic didn’t help matters, with one of its worst shooting nights of the season.

I talked to Gary Stanfield about the attitude of the team after their final shoot-around, before the state semifinal tonight against Kearney.

The Republic Tigers are in the boys basketball Final 4 for the first time in 30 years. Follow all the action right here.

Here’s the full quarterfinal game play-by-play. The audio quality is a little iffy in the beginning, but it gets better as the game goes along. Feel free to download it, save it to a CD, pass it around, or whatever.

Here’s a segment of the play-by-play from the final 30 seconds of the quarterfinal against Bolivar.

Josh Morrow rebounds a miss by Kevin Stander and puts it in, giving the Tigers a trip to the state semifinals.

Josh Morrow put back a missed Kevin Stander jumper with 1.4 seconds left, and the Republic Tigers beat Bolivar 54-52 to advance to the state semifinals.

After the game I caught up with Kevin Stander and Josh Morrow to talk to them about the final play that gave Republic the victory. Stander is first, followed by Morrow.