The Giltner/Harvard girls basketball team opened the 2025-26 basketball season, winning five of their eight December games, including making a championship run in the Wilcox-Hildreth Holiday Tournament.
G/H opened at 1-3 with losses to Franklin, Axtell, and Dorchester, while defeating Palmer in that early stretch.
Wins over High Plains and Grand Island Lutheran then led the girls to the two-game sweep of Wauneta-Palisade and Kenesaw in the W-H tournament, ending December with a 5-3 record.
January started like gangbusters, defeating H&H, Gibbon, and College View Academy, before losing three straight to Red Cloud, Kenesaw, and Silver Lake.
To finalize January, G/H reeled off three straight wins over Blue Hill, Deshler, and Elba.
In Twin Valley Conference tournament play, G/H was 1-3, opening with a 44-35 win over Kenesaw, before Silver Lake (46-35) and Red Cloud (59-42) defeated the G/H girls.
The regular season closed with a 40-30 win over Lawrence- Nelson and a 60-20 loss to Shelton.
Ord ended the Giltner/ Harvard season in the first round of the C2-6 Sub-District tournament at Hastings St. Cecilia with a 58-29 victory.
INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Four girls scored over 100 points on the year, led by Peyton Schutt with 273 points, an average of 11.9 points per game. Tabi Forney tallied 217 points to average 9.7 points per game, Avery Reeson added 176 points overall, while Chloe Consbruck hit for 105 points.
Schutt and Forney also led in rebounds, with Schutt gaining 228, and Forney, 114. Consbruck also pulled down 102 boards.
Forney paced the team with 78 assists and 71 steals.
2025-26 SCHEDULE
Franklin.........................................................L 36-28 Palmer........................................................ W 62-30 Axtell............................................................L 53-37 Dorchester.....................................................L 45-42 High Plains Community............................... W 54-45 Grand Island Lutheran................................. W 55-47 Wilcox-Hildreth Holiday Tournament Wauneta-Palisade................................ W 42-41 Kenesaw............................................... W 35-30 H&H............................................................ W 69-63 Gibbon........................................................ W 54-37 College View Academy................................ W 44-34 Red Cloud......................................................L 56-32 Kenesaw.......................................................L 49-38 Silver Lake.....................................................L 44-31 Blue Hill...................................................... W 37-18 Deshler........................................................ W 56-50 Elba............................................................. W 61-38 Twin Valley Conference Tournament
Kenesaw............................................... W 44-35 Silver Lake..............................................L 46-35 Red Cloud...............................................L 59-42 Lawrence-Nelson........................................ W 40-30 Shelton.........................................................L 60-20 C2-6 Sub-District Tournament
Ord.........................................................L 58-29
