Tonganoxie ? With more turnovers than points Saturday against Basehor-Linwood High, the Tonganoxie girls basketball team squandered an eight-point halftime lead at home and lost, 35-30.

Passes flew out of bounds, dribbles were lost, and the Chieftains turned the ball over 31 times.

The mistakes severely cost THS (5-8 overall, 2-5 Kaw Valley League) in the second half, when the home team made just three field goals and the Bobcats (9-4, 6-1) limited Tonganoxie to 10 points.

BLHS trailed for the first 27 minutes. It wasn’t until Shelby Equels converted a fast-break layup with 4:07 left that the Bobcats finally managed a tie.

Thirteen seconds later, Jamie Johnson scored a transition layup to put Basehor ahead, 29-27, and the Bobcats maintained their lead throughout the final few minutes by shooting 6-for-9 from the foul line.

Tonganoxie, meanwhile, was mired in a fourth-quarter field-goal drought that lasted nearly six minutes.

The Chieftains will play Tuesday at Mill Valley.

Basehor-Linwood — Shelby Equels 6, Macy Sanders 5, Courtney Poe 5, Megan Bergstrom 10, Jamie Johnson 9.

Tonganoxie — Amanda Holroyd 3, Hannah Kemp 6, Jenny Whitledge 7, Danielle Miller 4, Emma Stilgenbauer 5, Tayler Miles 2, Madee Walker 3.

Boys

Basehor-Linwood 76, Tonganoxie 51

Any hope the Tonganoxie High boys basketball team had of hanging around with rival Basehor-Linwood flew out the gymnasium door early as the longer Bobcats routinely shot over the Chieftains in a dismantling on Saturday.

BLHS had its first double-digit lead minutes into the first quarter, and the margin grew from there.

The Bobcats (12-1 overall, 6-1 Kaw Valley League) shot out of the gate with an 8-0 run and were up, 13-2, before THS scored a basket.

With three made free throws and a driving layup, junior guard Colby Yates scored Tonganoxie’s first five points, but THS (6-7, 1-6) already was down 10 before somebody else — senior point guard Jeremy Carlisle — got in the scoring column.

The Chieftains will play on Tuesday at Mill Valley.

Basehor-Linwood — Evan Theno 7, Ryan O’Donnell 6, Ryan Murphy 11, Colin Murphy 28, Austin Stubbs 5, Steyr Stubenrauch 2, Jared Patton 6, Austin Laing 10, Ryan Shaffer 1.

Tonganoxie — Dane Erickson 15, Ben Williams 3, Colby Yates 6, Jeremy Carlisle 16, Dylan Scates 4, Brady Waldeier 7.