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The 13th ranked McCook Community College softball team opens the regular season this week with four games in Kansas. MCC travels to Dodge City Thursday for a pair of games then plays two games in Garden City Friday. Coming off a record-setting 51-win season that ended in the Elite Eight of the College World Series, expectations are high for the 2026 team that returns the reigning Region IX Player of the Year and a pair of returning All-Americans...

ARAPAHOE, Neb. — Team scores and all top placers from the Darrell Barnes Wrestling Invitaitonal on Saturday. Top 10 teams of 18: 1. Hitchcock County 115, 2. Arapahoe 114.5, 3. Cambridge 102.5, 4. Garden County 92, 5. North Platte St. Patrick’s 90.5, 6. Southern Valley 79.5, 7. Twin River 68.5, 8. Wauneta-Palisade 65, 9. Decatur Community, Kan., 60; 10. Weeping Water 57.5...

CURTIS, Neb. — Top 10 teams of 14: 1. Cambridge 101, 2. Sutherland 99.5, 3. Hi-Line 96, 4. Bertrand 94.5, 5. Garden County 89, 6. Hyannis 70.5, 7. Perkins County 33, 8. Southwest 31, 9. Sandhills Valley 26.5, 10. Dundy County-Stratton 21. 215: Angel Torres, CAM (11-11),won the championship. He pinned K. Walz, SUTH, in 2:58...

MINDEN, Neb. — Team scores and all McCook Bison results from Saturday's Southwest Conference girls wrestling championships with more appearing in Tuesday's McCook Gazette: 105 Izzie Longberry (6-24) placed 2nd and scored 16.0 team points. Quarterfinal - Izzie Longberry (McCook) 6-24 received a bye () (Bye)...

STERLING, Colo. – The McCook Community College Lady Indians maintained their lead in the Region IX South standings Saturday with a 62-53 road win over Northeastern Junior College. The Lady Indians scored the first eight points of the game, led 15-5 and held on for a 15-10 at the end of the first quarter. MCC hit three 3-pointers in the quarter...

Guaranteed Places 1st Place - North Platte 2nd Place - Amherst 3rd Place - McCook 4th Place - Gothenburg 5th Place - Alliance 6th Place - Wray Round 1 Amherst defeated McCook 44-34. Gothenburg defeated Alliance 44-30. North Platte defeated Wray 53-27...

The registration deadline for the 2026 YMCA Spring Adult Volleyball League is now approaching. Divisions are being offered for Competitive and Recreational in both Women’s and Co-Ed. The season begins the week of March 9. Co-Ed will be played on Monday evenings. Women will play on Thursday evenings. The season will be five weeks long. There is a roster limit of 10 per team...

STERLING, Colo. – Trailing by a point with 15.7 seconds left in the game, Northeastern Junior College’s Quis Davis took the in-bounds play, ran the clock, drove the lane and made a layup with 3.5 seconds left to give NJC a 78-77 win Saturday over McCook Community College...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Sickness has caught up with the McCook Swim and Dive team but the boys managed to hang on for first place against friendly-rival North Platte at their dual Thursday. The girls only have four swimmers this season and three were out sick for the meet, leaving sophomore Braelyn Dunworth as the lone McCook swimmer for the girls...

MINDEN, Neb. — Every team’s goal is to play its best basketball in February and the McCook High girls are clearly getting close. After playing 14-3 Holdrege with three on Tuesday, the Bison caught 11-win Minden at 40-40 Thursday night when junior Cali Crawford ripped another “threeee” through those Minden High nets...

HOLYOKE, Colo. — The Chase County boys improved to 8-9 this season with a 61-44 victory at Holyoke, Colo., Thursday evening. Chase led from start to finish, building basically a decisive 35-17 advantage before the miday break. Coach Chris Bartels’ boys finished strong, 16-12 during those last eight minutes...

BENKELMAN, Neb. — McCook’s seventh-grade basketball boys were ready for a trip to Dundy County-Stratton as the team won 40-32 on Tuesday. The Bison overcame their slow start, only trailing 11-10 until Colton Foster heated up for 12 first-half points...

HOLDREGE, Neb. — McCook Junior High’s eighth-grade boys split against two great rivals this week as coach Joel Arterburn reports: “On Tuesday night, the A team lost a close game to Ogallala 52-46. Scoring: Bently Arterburn 17, Beau Bednar 12, Jed Crawford 7, Cooper Rupp 5, Jordan Pollmann 3, Isaac Snyder 2...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College women’s basketball team snapped an eight-game losing streak against Wester Nebraska Wednesday night at home, nipping the first-place Cougars 58-56. “That was a fun game. It had a little bit of everything,” said MCC Coach Brandon Pritchett. “I think we gave everybody an effort that was worth the price of admission.”...

cCook’s Blake Willis brilliantly bowled a 235 in his final B-3 district game on Wednesday to reach the Nebraska State Tournament. Willis was one of only five B-3 competitors who earned a spot at Lincolon for state on Feb. 9. Bison teammate Hudson Werkmeister placed ninth overall with only 12 pins separating him from reaching state...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook High’s wrestling boys host their annual dual tournament on Friday starting at 2 p.m. in the Graff Events Center. Coach Nick Umscheid provids some more details: “We have a good field of teams coming to McCook on Friday. North Platte is probably the favorite to win it all...

McCOOK, Neb. — Somebody hit the “turbo button” on Tuesday’s McCook-Minden basketball game and some may still be wondering how this happened Tuesday night. The Bison put ESPN legend Chris Berman’s “fastest three minutes in sports” to shame. Because in exactly 3:06, McCook scored 19 points to turn a 62-55 deficit into one 74-64 Southwest Conference tournament victory...

PAXTON, Neb. — Any idea RPAC boys brackets were in permanent “ink” went flying out the Paxton High gym where West Division’s top two seeds lost on Tuesday. First, No. 3-seed Hitchcock County hit 11 three-pointers to spark a 52-49 win over No. 2 Maywood-Hayes Center...

HOLDREGE, Neb. — Oh, those McCook girls took 14-3 Holdrege down to the final shot before falling 44-41 in Tuesday’s Southwest Conference tournament quarterfinal game. Junior Cali Crawford continued her sizzlin’ three-point shooting with three of four from beyond the arc...