PARADISE - The word momentum is an overused cliché in sports, but in the case of Tuesday's regular season finale between the Las Plumas and Paradise High School varsity boys basketball teams, the term carries a bit more weight.

Area events Saturday BOYS BASKETBALL Brainerd at St. Paul Central 1 p.m. Aitkin at Virginia 2:45 p.m. Pillager vs. Northland at Remer 3 p.m. GIRLS BASKETBALL Aitkin at Proctor 2:45 p.m. Esko at Crosby-Ironton 3:30 p.m.

GIBBON — It’s not that the annual spring arrival of sandhill cranes in the Central Platte Valley is anticlimactic this year.