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The Northern Valley (Almena, KS) varsity basketball team won Friday's home conference game against Western Plains (Ransom, KS) by a score of 67-37.

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Western Plains	8	5	15	9	37
Northern Valley	18	16	24	9	67

Final score provided by R. Cole.

Recap
Box Score
Matchup Info

Game Stats

Western Plains (25-26)

Western Plains has not entered stats for this game.

Northern Valley (25-26)

Northern Valley

Shooting

#	Athlete Name	Min	Pts	FGM	FGA	FG%	AFG%
	Team Totals	160	67	22	51	43	54
3	Conner David (Jr)	4
5	Gavin Thalheim (Sr)	32	22	6	14	43	61
10	Maverick Rogers (Sr)	2
11	Tait Thalheim (So)	30	24	8	16	50	63
12	Bryson Wilder (Fr)	2
13	Zane Brown (So)	28	9	4	9	44	44
15	Owen Hammond (Sr)	28	9	3	8	38	44
24	Lucas Hansen (So)	30	3	1	4	25	38
33	G. McKinney (So)	4

Northern Valley

#	Athlete Name	Min	Pts	3PM	3PA	3P%	FTM	FTA	FT%	2FGM	2FGA	2FG%
	Team Totals	160	67	11	28	39	12	16	75	11	23	48
3	Conner David (Jr)	4
5	Gavin Thalheim (Sr)	32	22	5	11	45	5	6	83	1	3	33
10	Maverick Rogers (Sr)	2
11	Tait Thalheim (So)	30	24	4	8	50	4	5	80	4	8	50
12	Bryson Wilder (Fr)	2
13	Zane Brown (So)	28	9				1	2	50	4	9	44
15	Owen Hammond (Sr)	28	9	1	5	20	2	3	67	2	3	67
24	Lucas Hansen (So)	30	3	1	4	25
33	G. McKinney (So)	4

Northern Valley

Totals

#	Athlete Name	Min	Pts	OReb	DReb	Reb	Ast	Stl	TO	PF
	Team Totals	160	67	11	25	36	20	12	17	6
3	Conner David (Jr)	4
5	Gavin Thalheim (Sr)	32	22	3	10	13	8	8	4
10	Maverick Rogers (Sr)	2
11	Tait Thalheim (So)	30	24	2	3	5	2	1	2
12	Bryson Wilder (Fr)	2							1
13	Zane Brown (So)	28	9	1	3	4	3	2	2	1
15	Owen Hammond (Sr)	28	9	4	7	11	4	1	8	3
24	Lucas Hansen (So)	30	3		1	1	3			1
33	G. McKinney (So)	4		1	1	2				1

Northern Valley

Misc Totals

#	Athlete Name	Ast:TO	Stl:TO	Stl:PF
	Team Totals	1.18	0.71	2.00
5	Gavin Thalheim (Sr)	2.00	2.00
11	Tait Thalheim (So)	1.00	0.50
13	Zane Brown (So)	1.50	1.00	2.00
15	Owen Hammond (Sr)	0.50	0.13	0.33

Game Story

Kansas High School Basketball - Western Plains overwhelmed by Northern Valley

January 30, 2026: Almena, KS 67622

In Friday's league bout, the Northern Valley Huskies (Almena, KS) basketball team crushed the visiting Western Plains Bobcats (Ransom, KS), by a tally of 67-37.

The Huskies now possess a 6-8 record. They play next when they host Logan/Palco for a Western Kansas Liberty bout on Saturday, January 31. Northern Valley will play a team coming off a 56-42 non-league loss to Rawlins County (Atwood, KS). The record now stands at 4-8.

The Bobcats (6-9) will now prepare for their test against Logan/Palco (Logan, KS). The come into the non-league test with a 4-9 record. In their last test, Logan/Palco was routed by Northern Valley (Almena, KS), 56-36, in a league challenge.

WPHS @ NVHS Basketball Game Info

Fri., Jan. 30, 2026 @ 7:30p

The Northern Valley (Almena, KS) varsity basketball team won Friday's home conference game against Western Plains (Ransom, KS) by a score of 67-37.

Rankings & Records

Western Plains (25-26)

KS	Class
346	41

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
9-12	1-7	2-5	5-5	2-2	.429	.125	811	882

Northern Valley (25-26)

KS	Class
316	30

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	PF	PA
10-12	4-3	5-4	2-5	3-3	.455	.571	1,172	1,114

Team Scoring Averages

	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Final
Western Plains	9.6	9.5	9.7	8.8	38.6
Northern Valley	13.9	13.6	15.1	13.9	53.3

Team Stat Comparison

Western Plains		Northern Valley
-	Points Per Game	53.3
-	Rebounds Per Game	33.1
-	Assists Per Game	14.0
-	Steals Per Game	8.5
-	Blocks Per Game	1.7

Team Leaders

Western Plains		Northern Valley	National Avg.
-	Points Per Game	#5 Gavin Thalheim17.0	4.8
-	Rebounds Per Game	#15 Owen Hammond10.6	2.5
-	Assists Per Game	#15 Owen Hammond3.5	1.0
-	Steals Per Game	#5 Gavin Thalheim3.0	0.8
-	Blocks Per Game	#15 Owen Hammond0.5	0.2

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Western Plains	4-9		Northern Valley	5-4

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
12/5/25	Logan/Palco	Western Plains	(L) 26-25	1/31/26	Logan/Palco	Northern Valley	(W) 56-36
2/3/26	Western Plains	Logan/Palco	(W) 38-26	2/7/26	Northern Valley	Logan/Palco	(W) 45-35
2/23/26	Logan/Palco	Western Plains	(L) 38-35
12/11/25	Cheylin	Western Plains	(L) 44-31	1/9/26	Cheylin	Northern Valley	(L) 50-44
2/7/26	Western Plains	Cheylin	(W) 48-41
12/12/25	Western Plains	Triplains/Brewster	(W) 49-43	12/5/25	Northern Valley	Triplains/Brewster	(W) 57-31
12/19/25	Western Plains	Triplains/Brewster	(W) 46-38
12/13/25	Western Plains	Golden Plains	(L) 44-42	2/6/26	Northern Valley	Golden Plains	(W) 51-37
1/9/26	Golden Plains	Western Plains	(L) 47-44	2/13/26	Golden Plains	Northern Valley	(W) 56-33
1/19/26	Western Plains	Golden Plains	(L) 47-38
1/22/26	Wheatland-Grinnell	Western Plains	(L) 60-42	1/19/26	Northern Valley	Wheatland-Grinnell	(L) 63-60
				2/3/26	Wheatland-Grinnell	Northern Valley	(L) 69-41
2/6/26	Western Plains	Weskan	(L) 48-23	12/19/25	Northern Valley	Weskan	(L) 60-58
2/13/26	Western Plains	Weskan	(L) 53-32

Record Breakdown

Western Plains (25-26)		Northern Valley (25-26)
9-12	Overall	10-12
3-7	League	6-4
5-2	Non-League	3-5
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
4-9	Common Opponent	5-4
2-5	Home	5-4
5-5	Away	2-5
2-2	Neutral	3-3
0-0	Playoff	0-1
9-12	In-State	9-12
0-0	Out-of-State	1-0