McCook team delivers great performance at Cornhole event

Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Team photo participants front row L to R: sitting Gary Grosbach, Sharon Garrido, and Michael Graham; standing: Andrea Loghry, Brittany Carney, Allen Holliday, Blaze Powers, Riley O’Brien, Erica Kinne and Amanda Kinne (not pictured Blake Myers and Braxton Baughmann).

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PAPILLION, Neb. — Coach Lynne Kinne provided these details:

“On Friday, McCook Special Olympic athletes competed in the inaugural cornhole event at Papillion Landing.

McCook had a great evening of competition bringing home a lot of hardware.

McCook team members Blake Myers, left, and Braxton Baughmann sport their gold medals at Papillion.

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In the 21 ft. men’s divisions, McCook’s Allen Holliday and Blaze Powers brought home the gold, winning both of their games by a large margin.

They defeated two teams from Capital City winning 24 - 1 and 22 - 1 respectively.

In another male division, the brothers team of Blake Myers and Braxton Baumann defeated teams from Falls City 22 - 4 and 21 - 12 to earn a gold medal.

The women’s team of Brittany Carney and Sharon Garrido brought home a silver meda losing to South Sioux City 16 - 8 and then defeating York 14 - 5.

In unified doubles the team of Amanda Kinne and Erica Kinne brought home the silver medal. They were defeated by Kearney 21 - 17 and then would eventually defeat Papillion La Vista 22 - 9.

In 15 ft. action, the teams of Andrea Loghry and Gary Grosbach and Riley O’Brien and Michael Graham won the silver and bronze medals in their division. O’Brien/Graham lost to Elkhorn 11 - 8 and Loghry/ Grosbach lost to Elkhorn 17- 6.

The two teams then competed head to head with Loghry/Grosbach defeating Graham/O’Brien 14 - 9.

“ It was a great evening of competition and I am so very proud of all participants.

They represented McCook well and did a great job showing good sportsmanship throughout the evening”, according to Coach Lynne Kinne.

A special shout out to Emily and Natalie from SWATs for driving athletes to the competition as well as all the parents who came to support our team. I look forward to our next competitions which will be held in February.