 The president's budget proposal eliminates public media funding. Learn how you can help at lptv.org slash action. For the second time in three years, the Nevis boys basketball team was back in the Class A state tournament. After a 28-and-1 season, the Tigers earned the fourth seat and took on fifth seat in Springfield in a battle of the Tigers earlier this afternoon. And Nevis came out hot in the first half and this one, Jack Lenquist goes to work down low, delivers the bucket and the foul, three the old-fashioned way, Tigers up five. Later, it's Michael Lenquist for three from the top of the arc, 13 of his game high, 24 came in the first. Nevis led by nine at the break, but Springfield came to play in the second. They opened the half and a 25 run over the first seven minutes led by Kilmendering in his team high, 22. Springfield would push their lead to his biggest 14, but Nevis would fight back, Griffin chased, knocks down the triple in transition to cut the lead to five, but they'd have to play the foul game and Springfield would hit their shots to seal this one, and they take down Nevis 73-265. Here are the Tigers after the game. Credit to them, they play amazing defense. The physicality of the game was just at another level, so we got to give credit to them because they made it a lot harder. It's an extremely disappointing loss for us, you know, but like I told the guys, there are no bad teams here. You know, when you get here, you're playing and you have to play your best. And like we talked about earlier, coming out of the second half, we just didn't hit some shots that would have kept us in the lead and kept the energy that we needed to sustain on defense with us. And, you know, as of now, our goal is, like we said, coming down, we got to win a game, so we got to come out and execute. You know, we got to hit some shots, make some stops, and try to get in to be able to play on Saturday. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.