Stories from Wednesday, April 24, 2019

KEARNEY, Neb. — A free shopping spree with Tuesday’s dual victory might mean the McCook tennis girls would still be in Kearney today. Fortunately, coach Matt Wiemers and the Bison tennis girls could bring home one of their more satisfying dual victories Tuesday evening...

McCOOK, Neb. — Communities that concentrate on quality of life and basics like adequate housing and a trained labor pool are more successful in supporting and attracting businesses, a state official told the McCook Rotary Club on Tuesday. David Rippe, director of the Nebraska Department of Economic Development, told the group that the communities that are focusing on building a quality of place where people want to live are the communities that are “ahead of the curve.”...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College Theater Department is staging "Agatha Crispie" this week with performances Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Weeth Theater in Tipton Hall on campus and a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. This will be MCC’s first production since the unexpected death in February of instructor Clay Grizzle...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook Community College softball team split a pair of games with Otero Junior College Tuesday at the Jaycees Sports Complex. OJC won the first game 4-3 and MCC came back to win the second game 7-6 in eight innings. “Today was fun, we had two hard-fought games,” said MCC Coach Josh Barnes...

McCOOK, Neb. — Colby Community College came up with three runs in the top of the ninth inning Tuesday to beat McCook Community College 5-4. Both teams scored a pair of first-inning runs which held until MCC scored a run in the fifth inning. That 3-2 lead lasted until the ninth inning...

HOLDREGE, Neb. — Fresh off both team and individual titles last week, coach Joe Vetrovsky provided this update on the McCook High varsity golfers: “The McCook Bison boys golf team competed in the Holdrege Invite on Tuesday. The weather was fantastic with sunny conditions and minimal wind...

McCOOK, Neb. — Chase County’s girls showed they lead the region in many events this season as they dominated Tuesday’s McCook JV Invitational featuring many varsity athletes. The Longhorns outscored McCook, 147-62, and left another 11 teams behind en route to another title...

MCCOOK, Neb. — McCook High’s JV boys defended their home track and field brilliantly with a home invite title on Tuesday. The Bison outscored every team by 66 or more points. Team scores and all area top four placers: BOYS Teams: 1. McCook 134.25, Chase County 68, 3. Holdrege 49.5, 4. Gothenburg 44, 5. Arapahoe 40.25, 6. Perkins County 39, 7. Minden 29, 8. Lexington 26, 9. Cozad 25, 10. Southwest 24, 11. Hitchcock County 22, 12. Ogallala 18, 13. Cambridge 8...