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The North Platte Bulldogs were a feisty problem all night for McCook basketball teams as senior Seth Dugger tried to finish this driving shot Friday night in North Platte. Senior Kiya Kramer (33) delivered this hustling defense while also sparking North Platte's offensive attack.Those Bulldogs won both games over the boys, 51-32; and girls 55-33 in varsity action. Both McCook teams play again on Saturday at Holdrege. Watch for more details from all these games in Monday's McCook Gazette...

Yes, the Gazette’s own Steve Towery was in Minneapolis Thursday night to capture both elation and relief of Nebraska’s five-set national semifinal comeback win over Big Ten rival Illinois. The Huskers can repeat as national champs Saturday. Nebraska faces No. 1-ranked Stanford at 8 p.m. on ESPN2 in a showdown of the last two national voleyball champs...

McCOOK, Neb. — Reid Steinbeck’s heayvwieght championship highlighted the McCook wrestling effort at Thursday’s Bison JV Open. The tournament featured wrestlers from several area schools like North Platte, Lexington, Holdrege, Cambrige, Chase County, Southwest, Wauneta-Palisade and a strong group from Colby, Kan...

BENKELMAN, Neb. — McCook’s freshman boys had a blast going into Christmas break with their 63-50 victory over Dundy County-Stratton’s reserves Monday evening. Brendan Gillen shot a blazing five-for-eight (63 percent) from three-point distance while scoring 17 points...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Cozad’s winning trek through southwest Nebraska this week didn’t stretch from McCook to Cambridge Thursday night. The Trojans stopped those Haymakers, 56-34, while earning their fourth consecutive win. Cambridge (4-1) took 21 steals from a Cozad team that picked off McCook’s final two passes in the 38-35 victory on Tuesday...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — A 28-point Cozad first quarter helped withstand the 26-point barrage from Cambridge’s Paxton Ross Thursday night. The Haymakers prevailed 75-58 to reach 6-0 this season. Senior Preston Carbaugh added 16 points for the Trojans, who slipped to 1-4. Junior Zion Moyer added seven points while Kyle Borland Kyle Eubanks finished with four each...

LIMON, Colo. — Cyrus Green scored two pins and earned a fourth-place medal for the Rawlins County (Kan.) wrestlers at Saturday’s Limon Invitational. Green pinned Antonio Reza from Peyton, Colo., with 12 ticks left in their first period. He also stuck Chance Weining from Trinidad, Colo., in 4:35 to reach the 195-pound consolation final...

CURTIS, Neb. – Aggie Ranch Horse Team riders ended their fall competitions with the WinterFest Championship of the Colorado-Wyoming-Nebraska (CoWN) Stock Horse Association in Loveland, Colorado. Six students from the Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture team competed in cow horse work, trail class, western pleasure and reining, said Joanna Hergenreder, coach and assistant professor of animal science...

CENTRAL CITY, Neb. — McCook seniors Morgan Fawver, DJ Gross and Colin Giron were all named Class B all-state football first team in Huskerlandprep this week. The Lincoln Journal-Star and Omaha World-Herald all-state teams are expected to appear this weekend...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook Community College’s Ryan Maddera, has signed a national letter of intent to continue her volleyball next year at Division I Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond, La. The sophomore from Greeley West High School in Colorado first came to MCC in December of 2016 for open tryouts...

As I stood in the check-out line for what seemed like the sixteenth time this week – a close estimate - I determined the items on the conveyor belt would get me through the next 48 hours. Not that my cupboards were bare, but rather that the activities and events for the following two days were covered...

Latest league results from TJ’s Family Fun Cener in McCook: Men’s Major Stockman’s Feed 264-186 Maris General Const. 256-194 Five Loners 242.5-199.5 Diamond Vogel 217.5-230.5 J&L Construction 216-228 T.J.’s Family Fun 206.5-242.5...

IMPERIAL, Neb. — Junior Mallie McNair’s 24 points and 16-0 second quarter propelled Chase County past Sutherland, 55-27, Tuesday evening. Senior Taylor Williams added 15 points as the Longhorns raised their record to 3-2. Sophomore Alexis Richmond stepped up for five rebounds to go with five points...

SARGENT, Neb. — Cambridge’s John tenBensel reached the championship round and teammate Bobby Evans captured a consolation title to lead Trojan wrestlers at Friday’s Twin Loup Invitational. The duo delivered 37 of 48 Cambridge points while placing 10th among 17 teams competing in this season opener...

McCOOK, Neb. — They became the essence of a smiling Grinch-faced frosted Christmas cookie Tuesday night. The Cozad Haymakers were stealing McCook joy all evening — and they never felt bad about it for one second. Especially since that final moment expired with Cozad’s Abby Cornelius clutching the basketball and a 38-35 road victory...

BARTLEY, Neb. — Southwest’s boys shot exactly 50 percent and fought off every Alma Cardinal comeback throughout a 65-60 home win Tuesday night. The Roughriders already own four wins over RPAC foes this season, losing only to unbeaten Cattle Trail Tournament champ Dundy County-Stratton last weekend...

BENKELMAN, Neb. — Dundy County-Stratton basketball teams remain unbeaten this seson following the Tiger girls’ 62-47 win over Rawlins County (Kan.) Tuesday evening. The Rawlins Buffaloes brought a strong 3-1 record into Benkelman, losing only to unbeaten Kansas 1A powerhouse Hoxie last weekend...

McCook High cheerleaders certainly helped an atmosphere that Cozad coaches said was “the noisiest we’ve heard so far this season” Tuesday night. It only begins a busy basketball weekend where both Bison girls and boys visit North Platte Friday night. McCook then tests the Holdrege Dusters on Saturday in Holdrege...

BARTLEY, Neb. — Senior Nicole Dewey’s double-double of 17 points and 12 rebound highlighted a Southwest girls’ 45-29 loss to Alma Tuesday night. Dewey crashed the glass for eight offensive boards, but Alma (2-2) still built an 8-1 lead that reached 20-6 by halftime...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — Both Cambridge basketball teams were dominant while scoring 76 more points combined than the Elwood Pirates Tuesday night. The Trojan boys (2-2 record) unleashed an 84-30 victory as junior Paxton Ross wasn’t far from matching that entire Elwood point total...

Junior Kristen Beckman’s 19 points and 11 rebounds powered the Rawlins County Buffaloes’ third win this season, 37-28, over Dighton, Kan., in Castlerock Classic play Friday evening. Senior Angie Singhateh blocked five Dighton shots besides her own 11 boards and eight points on three-for-five shooting...

McCOOK, Neb. — For the second time this season Eastern Wyoming beat the McCook Community College Lady Indian basketball team with the latest coming Friday night at home 90-88. “It was a very fun competitive game tonight and we just fell short,” MCC Coach Kellen Fernetti said. “My team kept fighting and battling.”...

IMPERIAL, Neb. — Sophomore Cedric Maxwell’s 18 points and super Chase County defense sent the Longhorns past Sidney, 45-25, Friday night. Maxwell drilled five of his eight field goals while blocking five Red Raider shots. Seniors Scott Wheeler (10 points) and Parker Dillan (eight) both dialed up a pair of long-distance threes. Wheeler swiped four steals to further frustrate Sidney’s offense...

McCook’s eighth-grade basketball girls were off and running to a big win over the Lexington Minutemaids at McCook Junior High on Monday. Shawna Wilkinson (45 above) breaks away from Lex’s Kali Sutton (23) to put in a lay-up

McCOOK, Neb. — Nothing but good news awaited Isaac Hegwood when he stopped splashing through the McCook YMCA pool and shook water from his ears Friday evening. “They told me we were real close to qualifying for state,” Hegwood proclaimed about McCook’s 200-meter freestyle relay. “And oh by the way, you guys set a new school record.”...