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FREMONT, Neb. — With a season that started in October, the McCook YMCA swim team is nearing the finish line, competing in the Nebraska YMCA State Championships on Saturday, March 14. Hosted at the Fremont YMCA, the statewide meet featured many of the swimmers who competed in the Nebraska state high school meet a few weeks ago in Lincoln. ...

Steve Lytle Fishing Guide has found a path to the league leadership of Men’s Major league bowling this week though just narrowly over Git ’Em All. Men’s Major Steve Lytle Fishing 107-43 Git ’Em All 106-44 Maris General Con. 101-49 Fullmomentum 96-54...

LIBERAL, Kan. – The McCook Community College baseball team muscled up on Seward County Community College Monday winning 21-5. The Indians scored seven runs in the third inning and added nine runs in the eighth at Brent Gould Field. “We put a pretty good game together today, we had a couple big innings and our pitchers did a nice job of staying away from the big inning,” said MCC Coach Jon Olsen. ...

Gazette scribbler R.B.B. (Really Bad at Basketball) player Headley bounces out his entire NCAA men’s tournament bracket picks a minute after deadline. First Four UMBC over Howard, TEXAS over NC State, LEHIGH over Prairie View A&M and SMU over Miami Ohio...

Sophomore Paige Warren (Victoria, British Columbia) pitched all 14 innings Saturday as the McCook Community College softball team swept Southeast Community College 2-0 and 6-3. The win was MCC’s 14th straight win and the Lady Indians improve to 8-0 to lead the Region IX standings...

The Nebraska men’s basketball team’s quest for its first-ever NCAA tournament win will start Thursday in Oklahoma City. The Huskers received a No. 4 seed Sunday and will play No. 13-seeded Troy in the Southeast Region. NU coach Fred Hoiberg said he's happy the team will be going somewhere fairly close to Lincoln...

The McCook Community College softball team won their 12th straight game and their 21st overall in a Friday sweep over Southeast Community College at the Jaycees Sports Complex. MCC won 4-2 and 7-4. In Game 1 the Lady Indians pushed across the go-ahead run in the sixth inning on a two-out triple by freshman Ellie Baca (Greeley, Colo.) and a single by freshman Lacyn Keller (McCook). ...

ALVA, Okla. – The McCook Community College baseball team battled windy conditions Wednesday to earn an 8-1 win over the Northwestern Oklahoma State University JV. Nine Indian pitchers saw action Wednesday amidst a game-time wind advisory and gusts of 20 to 30 mph as the Indians got back in the win column after dropping all three games of a weekend series to Iowa Western Community College...

LINCOLN, Neb. — No varsity basketball girl in Nebraska made more field goals this basketball season than Dundy County-Stratton sophomore Abi Spargo, according to maxpreps. However, nobody was closer than Maywood-Hayes Center junior Caylie Softley. Spargo sank 232 shots during the Tigers’ Class D-1 state championship run featuring 28 runs in 29 games...

The first-pitch for Friday’s softball doubleheader between McCook Community College and Southeast Community College has been pushed back an hour with games set for 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at the Jaycees Sports Complex. This four-game series will continue Saturday with a doubleheader starting at 11 a.m...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College women’s basketball team pulled out a last-second 63-62 win over Casper in front of the home crowd Saturday at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center. “What a great game to be a part of,” said MCC Coach Brandon Pritchett. “A lot of up and down on both sides.”...

The starting time for Tuesday’s doubleheader between the McCook Community College softball team and Dakota College-Bottineau has been moved up one hour. First pitch will be 1 p.m. at the Jaycees Sports Complex. MCC is 17-3 on the season and Dakota College-Bottineau is 3-5...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College men’s basketball team was hitting on all cylinders Saturday offensively and defensively in a 103-70 win over Eastern Wyoming in the opening round of the Region IX tournament. The win came in the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center...

he McCook Community College softball team completed a four-game sweep over Trinidad State to open Region IX play this weekend. The Lady Indians won the Sunday games 12-0 and 12-2. “We competed at the plate collectively and were able to produce a lot of offense all weekend,” said MCC Coach Mike Mendenhall...

COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – No. 15 Iowa Western Community College swept a pair of games Sunday against McCook Community College. The Reivers won both games in their last bats winning the first game 2-1 and taking the second game 12-10 to sweep the three-game series...

LINCOLN, Neb. — These Bees are just starting to make honey with freshmen and sophomores filling almost every clutch role. Arapahoe’s Warriors ran into these Queen Bees from Bloomfield at D-1 state on Thursday — and it felt similar to what happened in last week’s district final with Wauneta-Palisade...

The McCook Community College men’s basketball team will host Eastern Wyoming Saturday for the first round of the Region IX basketball tournament. MCC finished the regular season 17-13 overall and fourth in the Region IX South standings at 7-7. The Indians are one of three teams in the south hosting first-round games this weekend. MCC will play fifth-seeded Eastern Wyoming (4-8) from the Region IX North division at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center...

The McCook Community College women’s basketball team will host Casper College Saturday at 1 p.m. to open the Region IX post-season tournament. On the last-day of the regular season, MCC leap-frogged past North Platte to finish in fourth place and became one of the three teams in the Region IX South to host first-round games this weekend...

SCOTTSBLUFF – The McCook Community College baseball team took a pair of games from Western Nebraska Wednesday winning 20-14 and 6-5. In Game 1, the Indians trailed 6-3 in the second inning and 10-5 in the fifth inning before exploding for five runs in the fifth, seven runs in the sixth and three in the seventh. ...

LINCOLN, Neb. - The McCook High School swim and dive Team spent nearly the entire 2025-26 season on the road with one goal: reaching the final day in Lincoln at the Nebraska State Swim and Dive Championships. This is a similar goal every year, but it was extraordinary this season because the Bison swimmers and divers were without a pool the entire season...

ELKHORN, Neb. — Trailing just 37-30 deep into Monday’s third quarter, the McCook boys saw Class B No. 5 Elkhorn North unleash two decisive late runs to finish a 72-45 district finals victory. McCook actually has matched North’s 18 wins this season, but those Wolves broke away for a Class B state tourney spot...

GOODLAND, Kan. – The McCook Community College softball team swept a pair of games Monday against Fort Hays Tech Northwest taking down the Tigers 16-0 and 12-2, both games were shortened to five innings. ​“It was a good day all around,” said MCC Coach Mike Mendenhall. “Our pitchers threw really well and we hit the ball around the park.”...