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Mike Renning Randolph Times
RANDOLPH — Second-year Randolph head boys basket ball coach Cory Simpson welcomed four starters back from last year’s edition of Cardinal basketball, which should lead to improvement on last season’s 10-15 record.
Three seniors and a junior return after starting last season led by senior Logan Lienemann, teammates Luke Harder, Adrian Samano and Ryan Engel join L ienemann as returning starters.
Lienemann put up 15 points per game last season and was named to the Lewis & Clark All Conference First Team.
Harder was All Conference Honorable Mention and scored just under nine points per contest and yanked down almost five rebounds per game.
Trindan Ziems, a senior that transferred in from Plainview, should help in the middle for Simpson and the Redbirds. The coach is expecting help from Brecken Shearer, Corbin Wattier, Kody Junck and Jaylen Junck.
The Cards will open the 2025-2026 season at home when they welcome Tri County Northeast to Randolph on Dec. 4 before traveling to Chambers to take on Chambers/Wheeler Central on Dec. 5.
Back-to-back road games follow on Dec. 11 at Ponca and Dec. 12 at Lyons-Decatur Northeast then another home date with Creighton on Dec. 16.
Randolph will close out the 2025 portion of the schedule with a trip to Humphrey to take on Archangels Catholic on Dec. 19.
A home contest with Hartington-Newcastle will open 2026 on Jan. 2 followed by conference away games at Walthill and Winside Jan. 6 and 8 respectively.
The rest of January is highlighted by conference games Homer, Wausa, Bloomfield, Winnebago and Wynot.
The Lewis & Clark Conference Tournament is slated for Jan. 31 through Feb. 9.
The rest of February will find the Cardinals at Elgin to take on Elgin Public/Pope John on Feb. 12 , then home dates with Stuart on Feb. 13 and Boyd County on Feb. 19.
