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OGALLALA, Neb. — Thankfully, coach Tom Sughroue’s favorite “love-hate day of the year” featured more of that first emotion for his McCook Bison boys at Thursday’s B-6 district. “So easily you can have an athlete that has been having a great season stumble just a little and not qualify for the state meet,” Sughroue said after being named Southwest Conference co-Coach of The Year earlier this week. ...

OGALLALA, Neb. —McCook High’s amazing journey through the girls track-field season rolled on with 11 making Class B state during Thursday’s B-6 district meet. The Bison qualified for 12 state events overall following their GNAC and Southwest Conference team championships during these past two weeks...

OGALLALA, Neb. — The McCook Bison golf team competed in the Ogallala Golf Invite at Crandall Creek and earned another team title Thursday afternoon. Coach Joe Vetrovsky provided these insights: “The McCook Bison golf team were the team champions of the invite with a team score of 325. Ogallala High School and Alliance High School tied for runner-up with team scores of 332. The Bison golfers competed very well...

HOLDREGE, Neb. — Check out those McCook varsity and JV tennis girls sweeping through one more triangular in Holdrege Thursday. Both Bison teams finish with a 13-1 dual record this season. More details about the Bison players going into state next will be featured in an upcoming Gazette...

McCOOK, Neb. — Cambridge built an 8-2 lead and held off McCook Pinnacle Bank’s best rallies to win 11-7 in Legion baseball at the Jaycees Complex Thursday evening. Nolan Westadt drove home two runs through the windy conditions while Carter Hanes, Hodge Raburn and Braydon Miller scored two Cambridge runs apiece...

McCOOK, Neb. — A lot of new faces were among the runners and walkers at Community Hospital’s annual Just For Fun Run and Walk on Thursday night in McCook. More than 60 runners and walkers took to the McCook walking trail for a night dedicated to their health and to fun...

SUTHERLAND, Neb. — Chase County’s Jerzee Milner (above) helped the Longhorns sweep both Class C district team titles at Sutherland on Thursday. The Longhorns totaled 186 points for yet another girls’ team title. Meanwhile, the Chase boys scored 108 title-winning points. Many Chase County athletes qualified for Class C competition at Omaha Burke Stadium starting one week from today...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The McCook Community College baseball team took a 5-0 lead Thursday through six inning in the opening game of the second-round of the Region IX Empire League tournament, but Lamar erupted for six runs in the seventh and three more in the eighth and held on for a 9-8 win to send the Indians into the loser’s bracket of the double-elimination tournament Friday...

LUBBOCK, Texas – The McCook Community College golf team wrapped up the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I Golf Championship Thursday with a 22nd-place finish. MCC fired back-to-back rounds of 312 on the final two days to finish the tournament with a score of 1,275. ...

A glance at some additional Class D state meet qualifiers besides the top placers featured in Thursday's Gazette and at mccookgazette.com. Watch for more details with complete listings to start next week: Girls 400 meters: Stella Heapy, Medicine Valley, 1:04.45...

BERTRAND, Neb. — Cambridge fans can’t wait to turn the Paige on what their talented champion girls might achieve at Omaha Burke next week. Especially Cambridge junior Paige Sickels, whose story keeps getting better as she delivered quite a performance in Wednesday’s D-7 district showdown...

McCOOK, Neb. — Miles Pollmann and Gabe Roberts teamed to strike out nine during Herrmann Jones Funeral Home’s 7-2 Legion baseball conquest of Loomis Wednesday evening. Pinnacle Bank dropped an 8-3 battle to Cambridge een though Beckett Heskett hit a home run for Pinnacle...

COZAD, Neb. — McCook Junior High top five placers and team scores from the Cozad Invitational which finished their regular season on Thursday, May 6. Eighth grade boys McCook finished third among eight teams with 66 points behind Holdrege’s 104 and 99 Gothenburg points...

BERTRAND, Neb. — Dundy County-Stratton led several area schools who won championships at the D-7 district meet on Wednesday. The Tigers took two realy championships besides senior Lincoln Waters (800 meters) and Serbando Diaz (300 hurdles) racing to individual titles...

CURTIS, Neb. — The Cambridge Trojans won a close Medicine Valley Golf Touranment title race at Arrowhead Meadows Golf Course on Tuesday. Cambridge totaled 411 which finished four strokes lower than those contending Tigers’ 415. Hitchcock County’s 442, 469 from Hi-Line and host Med Valley’s 455 completed team scores...

McCOOK, Neb. — No fewer than five three-set thrillers showed Adult Volleyball League teams were raising their intensity for the YMCA championship tournament this week. T&L Contracting capped a perfect 10-0 regular season, though In The Net pushed this power to an ultimate third set. Pure Energy also earned its first victory with a three-set takedown of In The Net...

LUBBOCK, Texas – For the second-straight day the McCook Community College golf team improved on the previous day’s round. On Wednesday’s third-round of the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I Golf Championship, the Indians chipped four more strokes off their total and remain in 22nd place on the national leaderboard...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The stage is set for the final four teams in the Region IX Baseball championships with McCook, Southeast Community College, Western Nebraska, and Lamar facing off in a double-elimination tournament to determine which team advances to the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I District Baseball Championships...

McCOOK, Neb. — Asher Wilson’s leadoff home run hit the ignition switch on Cappel Sales’ 9-2 victory over Saltwater Hills in Majors League baseball at Felling Field Tuesday evening. The Cappel Sales Sox (1-0 record) went on to score at least one run during every inning of their season debut. Lee Davidson drilled two doubles, singled, scored three runs and drove home another...

BEATRICE, Neb. – Omaha golfer Carson Schaake fired an eight-under-par 64 at Beatrice Country Club Monday, to win the local U.S. Open qualifier. Schaake, a former Iowa Hawkeye golfer, finished three shots ahead of Brandon Crick, of McCook…who had a five-under-67. Crick, a former University of Nebraska player, is on the Korn Ferry professional tour. Another shot back at 68, was former Kansas University golfer Ryan Vermeer, of Omaha...

LUBBOCK, Texas – The McCook Community College golf team jumped a couple spots Tuesday in the second round of the National Junior College Athletic Association Division I Golf Championship. The Indians were 19 shots better on Tuesday than on Monday and go from 24th to 22nd in the team standings...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — Former McCook High state champ Spencer Powell’s reaching great new heights with the Nebraska Cornhuskers again in 2021. On Saturday at the M City Classic, Powell pole vaulted to his all-time best of 17’5 3/4” which captured second place at this NCAA Division I competition...

Friday’s opening ceremonies showed the Felling Field baseball and softball seasons are ready to hit full speed this week. McCook Midget Baseball Associaton president Billy Davidson (above) fires a baseball as more than 300 players are entering to participate this summer. They stood at attention to honor the flags (below) during these special festivities that were missed last year because of COVID-19...

McCOOK, Neb. — Summer’s clearly getting close with fastpitch softball in full swing at the Jaycees Complex on Saturday. Several teams including two McCook Rebels team and McCook Force competed. The Rebels 14-and-under finished second overall after defeating Sandhills Pride, 8-5, and winning 6-0 over Prodigy Harmon...

MCCOOK, Neb. — Hosting the GNAC tennis tournament was another huge success for McCook High’s girls on Saturday. More will be featured in Thursday’s Gazette. Team Standings 1 McCook 24 pts 2 Gering 16 3 Hastings 7 Scottsbluff 7...