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McCOOK, Neb. — All together and ready to rock the first home game! That’s how the McCook National Bank Seniors approached their long-awaited and delayed opener for 2025 at McCook’s Jaycees Complex Thursday night. Coach Chris Conroy’s Legion baseball team made the most of a home debut vs. Ogallala rained out exactly one week earlier...

McCook’s Parker Nokes and Reese Gillespie have both qualified for the Nebraska High School State Rodeo in Valentine this weekend. Parker has reached in both team roping and tiedown roping while working with parter Kaddo Aceunk from Pender. They have won the last three regular-season rodeos. Fellow Bison Reese Gillespie has qualified in cutting and rowing cowe horse...

McCOOK, Neb. — The alarm clock finally sounded and McCook’s First Central Bank Juniors suddenly looked just fine against visiting Minden Thursday night. Trailing 2-0, the Juniors made noise with a six-run fourth inning featuring Bo Schlegel’s huge two-RBI double...

McCOOK, Neb. — The final McCook Elementary School track-field meet results that have not appeared in earlier Gazettes this week. Third grade appeared on Tuesday; kindergarten and first Thursday. SECOND GRADE BOYS Long jump Heat one: 1. Ben Marvin, 2. Beckham Ridlen, 3. Quinn Maynard, 4. Tayt Butterfield...

MINDEN, Neb. — On Wednesday evening, the New West All-Star Classic took place for the volleyball side of things. On Thursday evening, there will be basketball games. Wednesday night’s matches featured battles between the Republican Plains Activities Conference and the Fort Kearney Conference, and the Southwest Conference versus the LouPlatte Conference...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook Community College Men’s Basketball Coach Dillon Hargrove has announced a two-day youth basketball skills camp for boys and girls in kindergarten through eighth grade. The camp is set for Wednesday and Thursday June 25-26 from 9 a.m.-noon for boys and girls. Cost is $40 per camper...

McCOOK, Neb. — Gothenburg’s Killer Bees stung the McCook Pinnacle Bank Juniors Wednesday night just when they were feeling good after a 17-6 win. Pinnacle pulled free from Phillipsburg, Kan., in Tuesday’s 11-run victory at the Jaycees Complex. A 6-6-6 sign actually looked really good considering what Alec Osborne, Calvin Schaffert and Noah Chancellor teamed to achieve against the Kansans:...

McCOOK, Neb. — More results from the McCook Elementary School Track-Field meet that capped 2025. KINDERGARTEN BOYS Long jump Heat one: 1. Tripp Kobaza, 2. Brier May, 3. Conley Cuellar, 4. Landon Johnson. Heat two: 1. Gatlin Judd, 2. Elliott Adams, 3. Liam Campbell, 4. Louis Fout...

McCOOK, Neb. – The 36th Annual Community Hospital Pro-Am at Heritage Hills concluded with remarkable participation and outstanding performances. With 27 teams nearly filling the 28 slots and 23 professional golfers, the event was one of the largest Pro-Ams in the past 20 years...

Three McCook Community College softball players have been selected to the 2025 National Junior College Athletic Association Division 1 All-America team. Sophomore Laila Gutierrez was named second-team All-American while freshmen Payton Kinsley and Paige Warren were picked for the third team...

McCOOK, Neb. — Just a reminder Thursday is the final deadline for Saturday’s McCook YMCA Summer Slam Adult Disc Golf Tourmament at Kelly Park. Registration fees are $30 per person for both YMCA and community members. Divisions include Mixed Pro Open, Mixed Amateur 1, Mixed Amateur 2, and Mixed Junior 15. This will be a two-round, singles tournament, beginning with a shotgun start...

Chase County’s Olivia Spady hits for the West against the block attempts of Broken Bow’s Addison Ellis, left, and Elm Creek’s Halle Knapp for their East team during Saturday’s West Nebraska All-Star volleyball game at the Cougar Palace on the Western Nebraska Community College campus...

MINDEN, Neb. — McCook High grads Jon Patel, Paige Bortner and Brooklynn Gillen are set to play in the New West All-Star Classic basketball games on Thursday. The starts at 4 p.m. with RPAC All-Stars taking on Fort Kearny Conference’s best. The Southwest Conference then plays Lou-Platte Conference...

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Luke Mistone hit a go-ahead homer in the eighth inning, Graham Kelham was solid in another long relief appearance and Murray State beat Duke 5-4 on Monday night in a winner-take-all championship game at the Durham Super Regional to advance to the program’s first Men’s College World Series...

Two-time All-American and 2021 NCAA Champion AJ Ferrari will join the Nebraska wrestling program as a transfer, Head Coach Mark Manning announced Saturday. The two-time conference champion has tallied a 51-2 career record, and has finished top three in both of his NCAA tournament appearances...

SCOTTSBLUFF — Sidney’s Reid Fiscus accounted for three touchdowns and earned Offensive MVP honors to lead the West team to a 21-7 victory over the East in the 47th annual West Nebraska All-Star Football Game Saturday at Bearcat Stadium. Fiscus, who told the Rural Radio Network he was playing quarterback for the first time since his sophomore year for the Red Raiders, rushed for 104 yards and passed for 144...

A weekend full of super regional action is in full swing across college baseball, and Sunday saw more than half of the College World Series bracket take shape. Arizona completed a stunning series comeback to eliminate No. 5 North Carolina from the NCAA Tournament, climbing back from an 18-2 Friday defeat to take the next two games and clinch a spot in Omaha. ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- — This has been Oklahoma City's formula all season: Lose one game, respond in the next. That's exactly what the Thunder did in Game 2 of the NBA Finals. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 34 points, Alex Caruso added 20 off the bench and the Thunder beat the Indiana Pacers 123-107 on Sunday night to tie these finals at one game apiece...

These McCook Rebels 10-and-under softball girls are learning early how to finish near top of big tournaments. For a second consecutive weekend, the Rebels finished second among all Silver Division teams at the Kearney Klassic. The Rebels 12s and 16s also competed along with McCook Storm at a tournament featuring teams from Kearney, Hastings, Columbus and Grand Island among others. The Rebels 10s earned silver medals at a Holdrege Titans Summer Break Bash Tournament one week earlier...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — After giving up the lead in a Game 1 loss to Texas, NiJaree Canady was determined not to surrender Texas Tech’s lead again. With the tying run on third in the final inning, the Red Raiders ace had one thought as she faced Texas batter Kayden Henry...