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BARTLEY, Neb. — The Maywood-Hayes Center Wolves celebrate their three-set RPAC tournament finals sweep of East No. 1 seed Bertrand Tuesday night at Southwest High School. M-HC (25-0) also took all three sets from Wauneta-Palisade, who took a 2-0 lead on the Wolves in their previous meeting before dropping a five-setter...

McCOOK, Neb. — If Mark Arp’s feet really had been on fire, he clearly burned something like this across Weiland Field Friday night: “Thank god for football,” senior classmate Alec Langan declared following a gutsy and glorious 13-10 win over Scottsbluff Friday night. “This is the most fun I’ve had. It’s not the 54-6 games you remember, it’s the ones that do down to the wire like this.”...

McCook senior Mason Michaelis won the Class B No. 2 singles state title for a second consecutive year while No. 2 doubles Joel Miller and Nathaniel Miller (below) placed third and junior Isaac Hinze (final photo) sixth at No. 1 singles. Watch for final details and comments in the Gazette this week...

WAUNETA, Neb. — The Wauneta-Palisade Broncos will get another shot at unbeaten Maywood-Hayes Center after sweeping two RPAC matches Monday night. W-P (15-7 record) won two sets from the Wolves (23-0) before M-HC rallied for a five-set victory earlier this season. It was easily the toughest of 23 Wolves matches this season...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — The McCook C football team capped a 5-2 season with a 63-29 win over the Grand Island Northwest reserve team Monday night. Coach Bill Ramsay offered these final remarks about the 2020 season: “This has been a fun year, all of the players have been very coachable, worked hard and have shown tons of improvement throughout the season...

MAYWOOD, Neb. — The Medicine Valley Raiders unleashed 32 points in their first quarter of a 61-12 victory over Maywood-Hayes Center Friday afternoon. Hudson Stout ran and threw touchdown passes during that opening quarter. His run covered two yards to cap a quick opening drive while Hayden Kramer’s TD catch covered nine yards...

The McCook Community College Volleyball team is holding open tryouts for all 2021 graduates in November. Athletic and academic scholarships are available at this tryout set for 2-4 p.m. Nov. 15 at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center. Registration will be from 1-2 p.m. There is a $50 registration fee...

McCOOK, Neb. — Results from the McCook Demoltion Derby recently at Red Willow Fairgrounds: Limited Weld 1st place- Chad Cochran Imperial NE 2nd place- Will Steinbeck McCook NE 3rd place- Cody Prosser Champion NE Bonestock 1st place- Greg Watson Syracuse KS...

ELBERT, Colo. – Nebraskans riding in their first collegiate stock horse show in early October brought awards home to the Aggie campus in Curtis. The Ranch Horse Team of the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture competed in the Slidin’ Daze Fall Classic at Elbert, Colorado...

McCOOK, Neb. — Southwest Conference volleyball hits McCook on Friday with only immediate family members wearing masks allowed to attend the tournament. McCook High officials confirmed this restriction today about matches being played at both McCook Community College and MHS...

McCOOK, Neb. — With only one regular-season game remaining, the McCook Bison (5-2) are currently No. 10 among Class B teams in power points and would start playoffs at Waverly or Plattsmouth next week. The Vikings and Blue Devils are tied for seventh with 40.875 points, though Waverly whipped Plattsmouth 36-0 two weeks ago...

BENKELMAN, Neb. —The Dundy County-Stratton Tigers have earned a West No. 2 seed among Class D-1 state football playoff teams who kick off their first-round games on Thursday. A field of five Gazette-area squads have qualified with Class B McCook and Six-Man Southwest starting their state playoffs next week:...

McCOOK, Neb. — All McCook leaders from the Bison's 13-10 win over Class B Top 10 foe Scottsbluff Friday evening. TEAM STATS Rushing yards: McCook 230, Scottsbluff 142 Passing yards: McCook 63, Scottsbluff 45 First downs: Scottsbluff 12, McCook 11 Stat of the night: McCook won despite losing three turnovers to Scottsbluff's none...

STAMFORD, Neb. — Freshman Ann Best's 14 kills powered the Southern Valley Eagles past a terrific match with Minden 23-25, 26-24, 25-23 on Thursday evening. Junior Krista Best blasted eight more kills during a rare battle where every set was decided by two points...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook drove 96 yards to a fourth-quarter touchdown featuring quarterback Mark Arp's scrambling, cross-the-field twice long run and then held on for the 13-10 Homecoming win over Class B No. 10 Scottsbluff Friday night. The No. 9-ranked Bison (5-2 record) scored their first dramatic TD when Arp found classmate Mason Schmoker for 60-plus yards just 15 seconds before halftime. Schmoker's second scoring catch in two games gave McCook a 6-3 halftime lead...

LINCOLN, Neb. — McCook senior Mason Michaelis lost only four games in four Class B state tournament wins capped with Friday's 6-1, 6-1 sweep of No. 2 singles foe Connor Barrett from Omaha Skutt Catholic. Michaelis finished 37-1 for the season while giving Barrett only his fifth defeat compared to 40 victories...

OGALLALA, Neb. — Nearly blowing a “tire” couldn’t even knock the McCook High girls off their course to an amazing B-4 district championship on Thursday. Team leader Sami Rodewald was zooming ahead like usual when she almost went halfway to becoming another barefoot runner like classic Olympian runner Zola Budd...

LINCOLN, Neb. — McCook senior Mason Michaelis mowed through this morning’s Class B semifinal just like his first two state tennis opponents on Thursday. The No. 1-seed Michaelis (36-1 record) knocked out Lincoln Christian No. 4 seed Daniel Bernhardson 6-1, 6-1, at Lincoln’s Woods Tennis Center...

Dennis Arp of Culbertson recently placed third in the Oklahoma Duck Stamp contest and won the Delaware Trout Stamp contest as well as taking honorable mention in the California Duck Stamp contest. Arp was a taxidermist for 30 years before selling his business, and only recently took up painting again...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Southwest will send two runners but the RPAC champion boys finished one spot from sending their lineup to state during Thursday’s tough D-5 district meet. Senior Jacob O’Dea placed second overall (17:45.31) behind North Platte St. Patrick champion Jarrett Miles (17:31), who’s a freshman...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Cambridge’s Brenna Deterding won a top five place at the D-5 meet while Chase County’s Jordan Jablonski and Hitchcock County’s Chayse Keith also earned Class D state spots on Thursday. Deterding finished the Cross Creek course in 22:33.6 which secured her trip to Kearney Country Club next week...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — The Dundy County-Stratton Tigers left no doubt about being ready for playoffs with a 54-8 victory at Cambridge Thursday evening. DC-S finished the 7-0 regular season which featured nothing but dominant performances. The Tigers avenged their lone regular-season loss in 2019 against a talented Cambridge (3-3) team which was playing its first game in three weeks...

STAMFORD, Neb. — Southern Valley’s Clayton Berry and Brody Yant both caught three touchdown passes from quarterback Carter Bose in a 72-44 win over the Arapahoe Warriors Thursday night. However, it was a 3-0 turnover advantage which really broke open this battle between 4-3 area rivals...

SUTHERLAND, Neb. — Sophomore Kiley Hejtmanek served 27 points while the 22-0 Maywood-Hayes Center Wolves swept through Sutherland 25-8, 25-10, 25-11 Tuesday evening. The Wolves’ awesome trio of Hejtmanek, Ashlin Broz and Lexi Wood — all sophomores did not miss one of their 53 serves during these three sets...