Sandite Basketball teams advance to Area playoffs

Survive and advance. The Charles Page High School boys’ and girls’ basketball teams came up short of securing Regional Championships, but both teams won their first round games and advanced to this week’s Area playoffs.

The Sandite boys (7-10) rolled into Regionals unranked with a losing record, but that didn’t stop them from putting their foes on upset alert. First they knocked off No. 8 Jenks 43-40 on Friday, then they took No. 10 Broken Arrow to the wire in Saturday’s championship, only falling 42-38 after leading early in the fourth.

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