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NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — McCook High’s boys regained their high place-contending form with a solid 317 team total at the North Platte Invitational on Monday. The Bison finished fourth overall among just three strong teams: champion Class A Kearney shot 298, Scottsbluff 304 and host North Platte 310...

The McCook Community College baseball team will open Region IX Tournament play Thursday at noon against Luna Community College. The tournament will be held at Damon Runyon Field Sports Complex in Pueblo, Colo. Northeastern Junior College won the regular season title with a 24-4 mark and received a first round bye in the double-elimination tournament. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — Scores from McCook High's home tournament sweep on Saturday and Friday night dual wins will appear soon as the Bison now own a 25-2 record this season. Comments from coach Matt Wiemers about his girls tennis champions: A super finish to a busy weekend, sweeping all 5 divisions and claiming the team title. The weather conditions were ideal and the girls really played well...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Top 10 teams among 17 and all area top six finishers during the RPAC track and field championship meet on Friday. BOYS Top 10 teams among 17: 1. Alma 135, 2. Dundy County-Stratton 124, 3. Hi-Line 72, 4. Hitchcock County 58, 5. Bertrand 41, 6. Medicine Valley 40, 7. Maxwell 33, 8. Wallace 26, 9. Southern Valley 24, 10. Wauneta-Palisade 23; 12. Southwest 18; 14. Maywood-Hayes Center 15; 15. Cambridge 9; 16. Arapahoe 7...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Top 10 teams among 17 and all area top six finishers during the RPAC track and field championship meet on Friday. GIRLS Teams: 1. Dundy County-Stratton 108, 2. Wauneta-Palisade 76, 2. Maywood-Hayes Center 76, 4. Hitchcock County 66, 5. Cambridge 62, 6. Alma 51, 7. Southwest 40, 8. Paxton 38, 9. Bertrand 36, 10. Southern Valley 35; 11. Arapahoe 25, 13. Medicine Valley 10...

COZAD, Neb. — Southwest Conference team scores, all McCook Bison top eight placers and new personal records (PRs) achieved at the league meet on Saturday. Teams: 1. Gothenburg 119, 2. Minden 93, 3. Holdrege 85, 4. Ogallala 77, 5. Broken Bowe 67, 6. McCook 48.5, 7. Cozad 36.5...

COZAD, Neb. — Southwest Conference team scores, all McCook Bison top eight placers and new personal records (PRs) achieved at the league meet on Saturday. BOYS Teams: 1. Cozad 145, 2. Gothenburg 110, 3. Holdrege 79, 4. Minden 58, 5. Broken Bow 53, 6. McCook 42, 7. Ogalalla 40...

Ohio State beat Nebraska in every aspect of the game of baseball today, yesterday, and the day before. The Buckeyes looked like the team that had a top-20 ranking and was sitting in second-place in the conference standings. The Cornhuskers now have a flight home and five days to feel the bile in their stomach to figure out if they are going to get this season back on track...

The McCook Community College softball team won their 46th and 47 wins of the regular season Saturday to set a program record. MCC downed Otero College on Sophomore Day 3-0 and 10-3. The 2026 Lady Indians pass the record set last year by the squad that won 45 games in the regular season, won three more on the way to the Region IX Tournament, and three more in the NJCAA D1 College World Series to finish with an overall record of 51-11...

The McCook Community College softball team wrapped up the regular season Sunday adding two more wins to a record-setting season. The Lady Indians downed Otero 21-2 in five innings and 6-3 in seven innings to establish a program-record 49 regular season wins...

Cook Community College softball team wrapped up the Region IX regular season championship Thursday with a doubleheader sweep over North Platte Community College. MCC won 11-0 and 12-3, both games decided by the eight-run rule in five innings. “Getting these games has been challenging with the weather, but I’m glad we were able to,” said MCC Coach Mike Mendenhall. “I appreciate north Platte being flexible as well.”...

McCOOK, Neb. — Isaac Snyder’s three individual titles topped the McCook Junior High efforts during their track and field home invitational on Tuesday. All four best finishers from McCook Junior High and McCook St. Patrick’s. The Bison are already competing again today...

owling League at TJ’s Family Center as this season rolls closer to its conclsion for another year... Men’s Major Maris General 216-5.113.5 Chipperfield Ag 204-122 Rednecks 199-131 Fullmomentum 197.5-132.5 The Krips 175-155 Kingpins 164-162...

HOLDREGE, Neb. — Coach Ben Vetrovsky provivded some details from the McCook varsity golf team’s Holdrege Invitational experience on Tuesday. “The Bison golf team traveled to Holdrege Country Club to participate in the Holdrege Golf Invitational. The Bison ended up 7th in field of 12 team shooting a team score of 344...

McCOOK, Neb. — The YMCA of McCook announces that registration is now open for the Midwest Liberty FCU Flag Football league. Divisions will be offered to children in Kindergarten throughsixth grade. The deadline to register for the leagues is Friday, August 7...

Hitchock County’s Jack Baker became a three-time RPAC golf champion while Dundy County-Stratton took home the team title from Thursday’s annual tourney on Thursday. Baker didn’t really need any drama for this title as his 75 was eight strokes below top challengers Houston Billeter from Southwest or Dundy County-Stratton’s Owen Mathews...

BEATRICE, Neb. – The McCook Community College baseball team snapped its four-game losing streak Thursday winning the first game of a doubleheader against Southeast Community College 7-4 then dropping the second game 7-6. “It was good to see us get back into playing better,” said MCC Coach Jon Olsen. “I’m happy with the Game 1 win, and I thought we had a shot in Game 2 as well just couldn’t quite get over the hump.”...

McCOOK, Neb. — The Ed Thomas YMCA of McCook is happy to announce that we have partnered with Bison Boys Basketball to offer atwo day skills camp. This two-day camp will be held on July 8th & 9th and offered to boys and girls entering the 1st - 8th grade in the 2025-2026 school year...

Pending additional overnight rainfall, the McCook and North Platte college softball teams will try once again to makeup their postponed doubleheader Thursday in McCook. Weather permitting, first pitch for the Thursday games will be at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. at the Jaycees Sports Complex...

McCOOK, Neb. — The best boys track and field marks and times from top area athletes entering league meets this week. 100 meters 1. Kevin Garcia-Guzman, Dundy-Stn, 10.95 2. Austin Smith, Chase County, 11.13 3. Ethan Latta, Dundy County-Stratton, 11.21 4. Brody Hubl, Hitchcock County, 11.24...

All the Gazette area girls track-field leaders entering most league meets this week. 100 meters 1. Abi Spargo, Dundy Co.-Stratton, 12.14 2. Ava Messersmith, Maywood-Hayes Cenr, 12.63 3. Avery Beemer, Chase County, 12.65 4. Clara Spargo, Dundy County-Stratton, 12.7...

McCOOK, Neb. — Senior Jayce Hauxwell ruled three events and helped Hitchcock County top 300 points to win Monday’s McCook JV Invitational featuring many area varsity athletes. Hauxwell showed his speed with two race victories (400, 800 mictories) while also climbing to first among all high jumpers...

McCOOK, Neb. — All team scores and top six placers from the area at Monday’s McCook JV track-field invite. GIRLS Teams: 1. Hitchcock County 234, 2. North Platte St. Patrick’s 192, 3. Minden 121, 4. Ogallala 116, 5. Holdrege 105, 6. McCook 88, 7. Gothenburg 70, 8. Medicine Valley 42, 9. Chase County 40, 10. Cozad 16, 11. Hershey 10, 12. Lexington 4, 12. Perkins County 4...