Bears advance to Six-Man semifinals

Another Saturday, and the Box Elder Bears are one game closer to playing for a state football championship.

In the Class C Six-Man playoffs last Saturday in Box Elder, the Bears outlasted Denton-Geyser-Stanford-Geraldine in a wild shootout, 74-64.

The Bears stayed ahead for much of the high-scoring game as they advanced to the state semifinals.

Box Elder, which won Northern Division regular season, will have to face a perennial Six-Man powerhouse with a berth in the state championship game on the line. This Saturday, Box Elder hosts Hot Springs at 1 p.m.

The other half of the Six-Man semifinal...