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McCOOK, Neb. — Yay! Basketball season tips off on schedule this week with McCook Bison facing both tall tests and long ‘team bonding” road trips. The Bison renew an area series when Chase County visits McCook High Friday evening. These teams haven’t met since splitting their season openers four years ago...

OGALLALA, Neb. — Pressure? We love late-game pressure! That’s becoming the McCook eighth-grade girls’ motto as they scored three huge late baskets to down Ogallala, 36-30, Tuesday. The Bison edged North Platte Monday and Gothenburg last week.

LINCOLN, Neb. — Lincoln high school basketball “experts” are expecting the Gazette-area’s three state tournament teams from 2019-20 to be among Nebraska’s best again this season. The Southern Valley Eagles delivered an awesome weekend in Lincoln last winter just before COVID-19 hit full blast...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College volleyball family added a new member – the younger sister of an MCC alumna from Colorado Springs. Makayla Brown, a 5-8 outside hitter from Coronado High School, is following the path of older sister Mallory Brown, a July 2020 MCC graduate, also an outside hitter. Makayla signed her letter of intent Wednesday at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center and was joined by her new teammates and her family including Mallory...

The McCook High Unified bowling team finished its season with a top four finish at Tuesday’s Class B District 8 tournament in Gering. The district team of (from left) Dylan Rouse, Ethan Graff, Allen Holliday, Mason Michaelis and Olivia Koetter rolled to a final score of 741. “We started off slow and never quite overcame the initial deficit,” coach Lynn Kinne commented. “But all in all, it has been a great season.” The Bison won their final home triangular and placed high at tourneys...

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The Ed Thomas YMCA is excited to present the 2021 Get Fit Team Challenge. This is a weight loss and overall fitness based challenge to build healthy habits and improve your overall health/fitness with the accountability of having a team alongside you. We hope you will join us for this fun and hopefully life-changing challenge!...

Lincoln – Teddy Allen scored 16 of his 23 points in the second half, as Nebraska improved to 3-1 on the season with a 76-69 win over South Dakota on Tuesday evening. Allen and Kobe Webster combined for 13 points in a 19-6 second-half run, turning a 48-43 lead into an 18-point cushion with 6:01 remaining. Allen's 23 points led five Huskers in double figures, while Webster had eight of his 11 points off the bench in the second half...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook High officials announced this schedule change today: "The freshman boys and girls basketball games scheduled with North Platte for Thursday have been been moved to Tuesday at the McCook Junior High School beginning at 4 p.m. for the girls at approximately 5:15 p.m. for the boys."...

The JP Logstics team took first place in Swanson Lake Sportsman Club’s Trap Shooting League for September and October. Champion team members appear from left: Evan Warren, Gilbert Mote, Bransen Schaffert, Wayne Merrill and Aimee Merrill. Wayne Merrill was the league’s top overall shooter for 2020 and pictured below...

OMAHA, Neb. — Check out all the area volleyball players who earned Omaha World-Herald all-state honors for their efforts through this fall season. FIRST TEAM As expected, Maywood-Hayes Center senior Jaycee Widener made the Class D-2 all-state first team at a hitter position...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook’s Unified bowlers finished a strong regular season with victory in their final home triangular on Tuesday, Nov. 23. McCook reached a total score of 773 which topped both Cambridge’s 677 and 412 from Southern Valley. Coach Lynne Kinne’s team moved on to the district tournament at Gering on Monday...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — McCook’s eighth-grade girls showed a bunch of Bulldogs what being scrappy is all about Monday afternoon. Despite an obvious height advantage, host North Platte could not handle the smaller Bison girls who delivered a thrilling 30-29 victory...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook High winter sports officially begin on Friday with the first home basketball games against Chase County set for 6 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Junior varsity contests tip off at those same times in McCook Junior High. Bison officials released information this week reminding that only household family members will be allowed to attend because of COVID-19...

CURTIS, Neb. — The RPAC’s West Division volleyball first team features all Gazette-area players this fall. Maywood-Hayes Center tops the team following a 29-2, state semifinalist season. Senior Jaycee Widener and sophomore Olivia Hansen are both first-team middle hitters...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — McCook Unified bowlers placed second overall at Saturday’s North Platte Invitational where 20 teams competed in four divisions. McCook’s Caleb Shaw, Ethan Graff and Dylan Rouse rolled a total pinfall of 1579 including 190 for “High Baker’s Game” on this day...

There was no masking the intensity of coach Jessica Bedore’s message during a close McCook eighth-grade girls basketball game against Gothenburg at McCook High on Tuesday. The Bison responded and delivered a 41-38 victory.

PAXTON, Neb. — Seniors Garrett Latimer from Southwest and Braxton McKinney of Wauneta-Palisade erned first-team spots while leading area football players among the 2020 D6-5 all-district selections. Latimer joins the first-team defensive line with McKinney claiming his place in the linebacker/defensive back position...

McCOOK, Neb. — Holiday events might looks shaky but the annual Cattle Trail basketball tournament will rumble full speed starting on Dec. 8. Full brackets with first-round matchups were released today. Games will be played at both McCook High and McCook Community College through the title games on Saturday, Dec. 12...

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MAYWOOD, Neb. — Maywood-Hayes Center senior Jaycee Slade Widener signed her letter of intent Monday to play volleyball next season at McCook Community College. “I was fortunate enough to watch Jaycee play a lot of volleyball this season in person and on-live stream,” said MCC Coach Hayley Kobza. “She is not only a great athlete, but a tremendous team player on and off the court.”...

BURWELL, Neb. — Quade Myers admitted he bawled almost like his last visit to Burwell ...then laughed when asked if there was a “beach nearby” to celebrate. Why not a beach? This was pure magic, a Friday night where it felt like anything could happen and almost did...

BURWELL, Neb. — A dream journey that may have had its beginnings after a loss on this same field a year ago, was completed Friday night as Coach Michael Spargo’s Dundy County-Stratton Tigers clawed its way through a double-overtime heart pounder with Burwell in the Class D1 title game...

BURWELL, Neb. — All the top performers from Dundy County-Stratton’s Class D-1 victory over Burwell, 42-36, Friday evening: OFFENSE Rushing: Serbando Diaz 35 carries-169 yards-3 touchdowns; Quade Myers 22-117-2 TDs; Corbin Horner 1-0. Passing: Quade Myers 3 completions-9 attempts-53 yards-1 TD-0 Int...

The Medicine Valley Raiders followed a super 8-2 season with several D2-8 All-District football picks this week and they join their neighbot Maywood-Hayes Center Wolves. OFFENSE First Team QB – Hudson Stout, Medicine Valley (Jr.) RB – Aaron Skaggs, Axtell (Sr.)...