Stories from Wednesday, May 12, 2021

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...

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...

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...

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...