CHADRON – The Chadron State College basketball teams will wrap up their seasons Saturday night when they host Black Hills State in a pair of Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference contests. Tip-off in Armstrong Gym will be at 5:30 for the women's game and the men's game will follow.
 
This will be Senior Night for the Eagles and both the women and men will be honored before their games. Head coaches Tim Connealy and Brent Bargen said their seniors will see plenty of playing time. For the women, that's Greer Babbe, Kayli Rageth, Kattie Ranta and Leana Tajkov. For the men, it's Zac Bargen, Mouhamed Diop, David Downey, Grant Stone and Chris Taylor.
 
The CSC women enter the finale at 4-21 overall and 4-17 in the RMAC.
 
Kattie Ranta, who became the 10th women's basketball player in school history to go over 1,000 career points, leads the Eagles in points (17.6) and rebounds (9.3) per game. She's also in the top 10 nationally for double doubles this season with 14.
 
Also for the CSC women, Kayli Rageth averages 15.5 and Dallas Shaw scores 10.5 points per game.
 
The Black Hills State women are 12-13 for the season and 11-10 in the conference. They are currently in seventh place in the RMAC, but need a victory over the Eagles to nail down a playoff spot.
 
Fort Lewis and Metro State are both 11-9, tied for fifth and sixth in the RMAC, and Colorado-Colorado Springs is 10-10 and in eighth place. If each of these three teams win both games this weekend and the Yellow Jackets lose to CSC, Black Hills will not be among the top eight teams in the final standings.
 
The Lady Jackets won by an 89-45 margin when they played the Eagles in Spearfish on Jan. 9 by shooting 52.3 percent from the field compared to CSC's 33.3 percent.
 
Both teams lost both games to Colorado-Colorado Springs and Colorado State-Pueblo last weekend.
 
The Chadron State men enter Saturday's game with a 10-15 record and are 7-14 in the RMAC. The Eagles have balanced scoring, predominantly from their senior class. Zac Bargen leads the squad with 11.6 points, David Downey is second at 10.1 and Grant Stone is third at 9.5. Bargen and Stone are also the team's two leading rebounders.
 
The Black Hills men split their games last weekend, downing Pueblo on Friday night 78-68 before falling to Colorado Springs 100-88 in overtime Saturday night. The Mountain Lions' Derrick White, who led his team with 24 points against CSC on Friday night, tallied 32 points, including 21 of 24 from the free throw line, in the win at Spearfish.
 
The Black Hills men, like the Eagles are 10-15 for the season, but are one game up on CSC in the RMAC standings at 8-13. The Eagles nipped the Jackets 82-81 in January, when guard Josiah Lee dribbled nearly the length of the floor for a layup just before the final buzzer sounded.
 
Black Hills' top guns are senior Tommy Earl at 16.4 points a game and sophomore Myles Henry at 12.9.