GENEVA – Having already defeated Larkin once this season, the Geneva boys basketball team needed “a monumental effort” to turn the trick again, in Vikings boys basketball coach Phil Ralston’s estimation.

Geneva wasn’t close to making that happen Friday, so instead, the visiting Royals celebrated a monumental achievement of their own.

Larkin blasted Geneva, 72-52, in Upstate Eight Conference River play to cement what is believed to be Larkin’s first outright boys basketball conference championship in 20 years. St. Charles East needed to win out and have Larkin lose Friday to have a chance to tie for the title.