The Lake Region State College basketball teams spent their Thanksgiving in Wyoming.

Each team played the following Friday and Saturday in the First National Bank Classic in Gillette, Wyo. Both teams took losses on each day.

LRSC men’s hockey also had a game this weekend, at home on Saturday against Jamestown. The Royals fell short there, too, in a tough overall weekend for the college teams.

All of it was non-conference action, though. It’s still the early going of the basketball season, with conference play not starting until after the new year.

The LRSC men’s basketball team lost 81-62 to Gillette College on Friday and 113-75 to Eastern Wyoming College on Saturday.

In Friday’s defeat, the Royals trailed only 35-30 at halftime. It got away from them in the second half. Alvin Payne le

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