A tough loss for Oskaloosa’s boys’ basketball team.  Cedar Rapids Jefferson edged the Indians 62-61 Saturday night (1/19) at the Wells Fargo Advisors Shootout in Cedar Rapids.  Willie Guy III scored in the final seconds to give the J-Hawks the lead and the win.  Oskaloosa Coach Ryan Parker saw a couple of silver linings in the loss.

“I think we got better tonight.  Sometimes people say ‘You got beat,’ but at the end of the day, we hadn’t seen zone basically all year.  We saw it 32 minutes tonight.  We hadn’t been in a one point game late in the game like that all year.  Those two things we’ll take away from it and make us better going forward.”

Senior Cole Henry had 30 points to lead Oskaloosa.  The Indians are now 9-3 on the season.  They’ll play at Dallas Center-Grimes Tuesday night (1/22).  We’ll have that game, plus the Oskaloosa/Dallas Center-Grimes girls’ game on KBOE-FM.  Our coverage starts at 6 Tuesday night.