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Ellinwood's Dutton earns first-team CPL honors
Ellinwood's Britton Dutton dribbles to the basket against Cimarron.jpg
Ellinwood's Britton Dutton dribbles to the basket against Cimarron during the Winter Jam match-up on Tuesday night. - photo by Hugo Gonzalez

Oilers earn All-Central Prairie honors

Ellinwood all-stater Britton Dutton (24.4 ppg, 4.6 rpg, 3.6 assists, 2.5 steals) earned first-team All-Central Prairie league honors as he led the Eagles (20-3, 8-0) to back-to-back Central Prairie League basketball titles.

Macksville’s third-place 1A finisher (22-3, 6-2) placed Ryan Kuckelman (11 ppg, 9 rpg, 2 blocks, 2 steals, 2 assists) and Alexis Barrton (11 ppg, 6 rpg, 4 assists) on the first team. Also named first team were Ness City’s Taylor Cable (18 ppg, 11 rpg) and St. John’s Elijah Delp.

CENTRAL PRAIRIE BOYS FIRST TEAM

*unanimous

MACKSVILLE—*Ryan Kuckelman, C, 11; Alexis Barron, F, 11

ELLINWOOD—*Britton Dutton, G, 11

NESS CITY—*Taylor Cable, F, 12

ST. JOHN—Elijah Delp, F, 12

SECOND TEAM—ELLINWOOD—Koy Behnke, G-F, 11; Parker Scheck, F, 11; NESS CITY—Corbin Ross, C, 12; CENTRAL PLAINS—Peyton Ryan, G, 10; LA CROSSE—Caden Morgan, G, 10

THIRD TEAM—NESS CITY—Jackson Seib, PG, 12; Jose Guzman, G, 12; ST. JOHN—Hunter Smith, G, 12; MACKSVILLE—Hector Gomez, PG, 9; OTIS-BISON—Dalton Regan, G, 12

HONORABLE MENTION—Ellinwood—Cody Zink, F, 12; KINSLEY—Xavier Holguin, G, 12; ST. JOHN—Preston Dunn, G, 12; LA CROSSE—Gage Burk, F, 10; VICTORIA—Landon Schmidtberger, G, 10

CENTRAL PRAIRIE BOYS

Ellinwood 8-0 20-3

Macksville 6-2 22-3

Ness City 6-2 17-6

St. John 6-2 13-9

La Crosse 4-4 8-14

Victoria 3-5 6-15

Kinsley 2-6 3-18

Central Plains 1-7 4-19

Otis-Bison 0-8 3-19