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McCOOK, Neb. —McCook’s softball team could fill an entire batting order with all-GNAC brainiacs while every other Bison team earned academic top honors this fall. The nine softball selections led Bison squads though both football and volleyball each featured eight all-GNAC academicians...

McCOOK, Neb. — The 6-1 McCook Community College Lady Indian basketball team heads to Crete tonight for a game against the Doane University JVs – the first three of games in three days to end the pre-Thanksgiving break. This weekend the Lady Indians will play their final two home games of the semester...

Latest results from TJ’s Family Fun Center in McCook with Wagner’s Ford finding the lane to first place ahead of Lickity Splits and J&L Construction. Men’s Major Wagner’s Ford 222-167 Lickity Splits 219-167 J&L Constructin 217.5-171.5 TJ’s Family Fun 212.5-177.5...

Despite what was clearly two of human creation’s all-time worst upset picks, Gazette scribbler R.B. (Really Bad-dancer) Headley rebounded for a 38-8 record during college football action last week. Rarely Brilliant (make that never) took Nebraska to beat No. 14 Wisconsin (what the?) and Navy downing Notre Dame (even worse)...

COLBY, Kan. – The Colby Community College basketball team overcame a slow start to the second half but came back to hand McCook Community College an 81-71 loss Tuesday at the Colby Community Building. “We didn’t play hard for 40 minutes, maybe 20 combined,” MCC coach Kyle Drennan said...

McCOOK, Neb. — Colin Rooney finished more than three minutes faster than all other runners during Saturday’s annual Turkey Trot 5K Run/Walk in McCook. Rooney’s final time of 21:07.7 took first overall while also winning the male age 19-and-under division...

KEARNEY, Neb. – University of Nebraska at Kearney student-athletes traded their uniforms for hair nets and aprons Tuesday to help fight hunger in the community. UNK Athletics teamed up with Sodexo, the university’s dining services provider, to make and distribute nearly 3,500 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches...

The perfection headline says it all when observing Steve Towery’s flawless 20-0 football picking record last weekend. Even despised rival/Gazette scribbler R.B. (Rude Buggar) Headley had to marvel at how Towery spends many weekends following coach Scott Frost’s amazing Nebraska football revival — hoping that may actually happen some day...

GOODLAND, Kan. — One early sign of winter arrived with the Topside Invitational basketball tournament brackets this week. Both McCook Bison teams actually tip offtheir regular seasons at Valentine on Friday, Dec. 7. The Bison girls are returning from a 10-11 season which included their 56-42 win over Valentine last December...

BURWELL, Neb. — Burwell’s first-down “chain gang” marveled at what Dundy County-Stratton brought to the Class D-1 state semifinal Monday evening. “This is fun. This is a great game,” they all agreed even though their favorite powerhouse Longhorns were locked in a 8-8 tie with D-1’s new kids on the block...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College volleyball team has signed its second recruit for the 2020 squad. Jordan Jerome, an outside hitter from Rawlins, Wyo., -- with family in McCook -- inked with the Lady Indians late last week. Jerome, 5-10, recently helped lead her Rawlins High School team to Wyoming State vollebayll championship...

McCOOK, Neb. — After a week layoff, the 3-2 McCook Community College men’s basketball team is back in action with three games in the next seven days, three games over the Thanksgiving break, and three more road games to end the pre-holiday break. Tonight’s game at Colby Community College starts at 7 p.m. Early schedules listed this as a home game but was moved to Colby. The Trojans are 3-1 on the season...

Omaha has officially jumped off the Dundy County-Stratton bandwagon despite recent playoff wins over D-1 West No. 2 Fullerton and No. 3-seed Arcadia-Loup City. State-wide football writer Stu Pospisil has been more impressed with the Burwell Longhorns’ quest for a third state final in four seasons...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — McCook Unified Bowling teams traveled to competed in the Grand Island Northwest Tournament on Saturday. Teams rolled four games of “baker’s bowling” to seed them for the tourney. McCook Team 1 featuring Kassadi Lemburg, Mason Michaelis, Luke Maris, Reese Dellevoet and Ethan Graff scored a four-game toal of 447...

McCOOK, Neb. — Less than one week after the end of the McCook Community College volleyball season ended, Coach Hayley Kobza signed her first player for the 2020 season. On Friday, Gibbon High School senior Kaylee Palmieri signed her letter of intent to play for the Lady Indians...

HESSTON, Kan. -- The McCook Community College women’s basketball team improved to 6-1 Saturday, winning 88-46 against Hesston College in the final game of the Lark Classic. “I thought we came out with the energy we need to have all the time,” MCC Coach Brandon Pritchett said...

McCOOK, Neb. — Bill Moore and Chris Mock from McCook will advance to the American Poolplayers Association’s (APA) 9-Ball Doubles Championship in Las Vegas next spring after winning the 9-Ball Doubles tournament held recently at TJ’s Family Fun Center...

BURWELL, Neb. — Remember how one pass completion for one yard and 10 rushing touchdowns powered Burwell past Cambridge in Tuesday’s state playoffs? Today — with Dundy County-Stratton looming for Monday’s semifinal — coach Luke Gideon was quick to emphasize how his Longhorns are not a one-pronged attack...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook Community College sophomore Jade Hollands, who attended Atchison County High School in Kansas, signed a national letter of intent Wednesday to play softball at Minnesota State University-Moorhead, a Division II school. The Dragons compete in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference...

Over the next three weeks, Auburn will be in the middle of the action even though the Tigers are outside the playoff race. No. 13 Auburn plays two top-five playoff contenders in No. 5 Georgia (No. 4 CFP) and No. 4 Alabama (No. 5 CFP) at home in November, and depending upon how the Tigers do their coach may or may not be in danger of losing his job...

McCOOK, Neb. — Three McCook Community College baseball players signed letters of intent Wednesday to continue their athletic careers at four-year schools. Wednesday was National Signing Day, the first day student/athletes can sign a contract to play at the junior college level or sign with an NAIA school...

Tuesday night was ESPN-worthy in Benkelman as the Dundy County-Stratton Tigers rallied to take down Arcadia-Loup City, 42-30, in their Class D-1 state quarterfinal playoff game. Striv.tv student announcers (left had some fun with their homemade ESPN sign while broadcasting and video streaming the game to just about anyone with internett access. ...

Gazette scribbler R.B. (Reeling Badly) Headley must recover from his worst week of picking (24-16) this year which didn’t even include a usual Husker miss. His season record remains respectable at 345-116 (.748) and dropping below 500 seems unlikely with R.B. (Round Belly) enjoying all these leftover Halloween mini-candy bars...

Latest results from TJ’s Family Fun Center in McCook with J&L Construction suddenly building a lead over all rival teams: Men’s Major J&L Construction 212-147 TJ’s Family Fun 206.5-153.5 Wagner’s Ford 206-153 Lickity Splits 205-151...

BENKELMAN, Neb. — Former Nebraska Cornhusker Matt Jarzynka showed Loup City and Arcadia again what made him one of Big Red’s most recent walk-on success stories. Yet Jarzynka was showing it in his new task: Dundy County-Stratton’s defensive line coach. “Speed and heart trumped size,” Tiger coaches declared following a terrific 42-30 state quarterfinal win over the D-1 West No. 3-seed Rebels...