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BXB Tourney Recap, Dec. 23
BXB Tourney Recap, Dec. 23

Published on: 12/23/2025

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The Les Schwab Tires South Coast Holiday Basketball Tournament wrapped up Saturday in Coos Bay.  Sixteen-teams participated in the 22nd annual event, but only two could claim to be schools that have participated every year, and they met for the boy’s championship.  Crook County, from Prineville, and the home team, Marshfield.  The top-ranked (OSAA Rankings), unbeaten (7-0), 5A Cowboys won the game 78-46 over the top-ranked (OSAA/Coach’s Poll) 4A Pirates (4-2).  Marshfield’s two losses have come at the hands of 5A schools, Churchill and Crook Co. The Cowboys are led by 6-10 senior Bryce Lowenbach.  He was easily the MVP in leading Crook Co. to their first-ever championship of the tournament the school has been attending for over two-decades.  It’s got to be personally special.  Lowenbach’s father, Jeff, has been on the bench over those years, and you can easily say his son has grown up in Marshfield’s Pirate Palace as the Cowboys played every December in Coos Bay.  From being a ball boy to MVP.  It had to be personally gratifying to father and son.  What’s ahead for the senior next year?  Still open.  While he has heard from colleges, his decision will come after the Crook Co. season.  The school plays in the 5A Intermountain Conference and is among the smallest enrollments compared to Bend’s four schools and the two in Redmond.  They’ve been a yo-yo school between the 4A and 5A OSAA classifications, and the Cowboy coaches know it.  It’s a fire burning inside that makes them want to prove themselves.  The Cowboys got it!  Their plan is to win the league and show they can stand tall with the bigger schools.  They’re off to a good start with dad’s former ball boy leading the way.  

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