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The McCook Community College baseball team swept a pair of games Saturday over Otero College winning 12-5 and 7-4 at the Jaycees Sports Complex. The wins were the 599th and 600th career wins for MCC Coach Jon Olsen. “I’m happy with what we did today. We had to face a little adversity and did a good job of coming out on top,” said Olsen...

AURORA, Neb. — Team scores, all McCook top placers and personal records (PRs) during Friday’s Aurora Track-Field Invitational. TEAMS: 1. Northwest 210, 2. Aurora 187, 3. Kearney Catholic 108, 4. McCook 51, 5. Broken Bow 48, 6. Wood River 21. 100 meters: 1. ...

AURORA, Neb. — Team scores, all McCook top placers and personal records (PRs) during Friday’s Aurora Track-Field Invitational. TEAMS: 1. Northwest 267.5, 2. Aurora 134, 3. Kearney Catholic 90.5, 4. Wood River 59, 5. McCook 46, 6. Broken Bow 42. 100 meters: 1. ...

ams scores and all top three placers from Friday’s Southern Valley Track-Field Invitaitonal. GIRLS TEAMS: 1. Southern Valley 104, 2. Alma 100, 3. Dundy County-Stratton 94, 4. Southwest 84, 5. Medicine Valley 49, 6. Hi-Line 46, 7. Norton (Kan.) 22, 8. Bertrand 21...

SCOTTSBLUFF – The McCook Community College softball team picked up their 30th win of the season Sunday completing a four-game sweep over Western Nebraska, winning 10-0 and 7-1. Of the 140 NJCAA Division I teams, the No. 25 Lady Indians are just one of eight teams in the nation with 30 wins so far this season...

The 25th ranked McCook Community College softball team won two more games Friday, sweeping Western Nebraska Community College 13-1 and 8-0 with both games shortened to five innings on the eight-run rule. “We played very well in all aspects of the game” said MCC Coach Mike Mendenhall. “We pitched very well, played great defense, and hit.”...

Central Wyoming Community College claimed the two-day McCook Community College Invitational Golf Tournament Friday besting Eastern Wyoming by 11 shots. MCC finished in a third-place tie with Northeastern Junior College. “Thursday, I think everyone did a great job of persevering through some of the highest winds I’ve ever seen in a tournament setting,” said MCC Coach Grant Case...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook YMCA sports director James Mockry recently announced the Aquatics Center will re-open on Monday. “Our aquatic center and locker rooms are reopening on Monday, March 30 following the completion of Phase One Improvements. Join us as we welcome swimmers back to a refreshed facility designed for fitness, wellness, and community connection...

McCOOK, Neb. — The McCook High girls took on fierce gusting crosswinds along with two opposing teams while barely even flinching Thursday afternoon. “The mindset the girls play with is fun to watch,” coach Matt Wiemers proclaimed about the defending Class B state champion Bison who won despite missing two seniors Thursday due to state FFA activities. “They play for one another and are so complimentary to each other.”...

GRANT, Neb. — Top three area track and field placers from the Perkins County Invitational on Thursday. Any team results were not obtained. GIRLS 100 meters: 1. Riley Rusher, Chase County, 13.81; 2. Molly Yearous, Wauneta-Palisade, 14.35; 3. McKenna Doetker, Wauneta-Palisade, 14.38...

Git ’Em All has gotten hold of the league lead as this season rolls on at TJ’s Family Fun Center. Men’s Major Git ’Em All 116-64 Steve Lytle Fishing 115-65 Maris General Con. 109-71 Chipperfield Ag 104-74 Fullmomentum 101-79...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook’s first home dual as defending Class B state champs was about coming through in the tight-tight clutch Tuesday afternoon. The Minutemaids had already edged McCook during last week’s North Platte Doubles Invite for that team title...

GARDEN CITY, Kan. – Garden City Community College’s baseball team snapped McCook Community College’s seven-game winning streak Tuesday with a 15-9 win. The Broncbusters scored seven runs in the fourth inning and kept the Indians off the scoreboard over the final three innings to pick up the win...

McCOOK, Neb. — McCook Community College freshman Lyndsay Keogh has been named Region IX Player of the Week for her work on the softball field March 16-March 22. Against Northeastern Junior College, Keogh had nine hits in 15 at bats, batting .600 for the week with a double, two home runs, three runs scored and eight RBIs to help the Lady Indians to a 3-1 series win...

Like many self-declared hoops experts, Gazette fathead R.B. (Really Bloated) Headley had Florida vs. Vanderbilt in tonight’s South Region semifinal. Iowa? R.B. didn’t expect Hawkeyes to escape first round. Nebraska? Haha, just get past Troy and consider anything else frosting on the Cornhusker cake...

McCOOK, Neb. — A trio of McCook High basketball players garnered all-Southwest Conference recognition for this 2025-26 season. Junior Cali Crawford made the league’s second team while senior Jaylea Walgren was a third-team selection. Both helped the Bison compete against many state tourney-quality teams like Ogallala, Holdrege and Gothenburg, who all three reached that C-1 state tourney...

CAMBRIDGE, Neb. — All Gazette-area champions from the Trojan Relays Invitational on Saturday at Cambridge High School’s track. GIRLS 800 meters: 1. Dundy County-Stratton 1:54.73 (Clara Spargo-Emily Schack-Ava Lutz-Abi Spargo). 1600: 1. DC-S 4:26.13 (Clara Spargo-Emily Schack-Ava Lutz-Abi Spargo)...

The McCook Community College softball team swept a doubleheader from Northeastern Junior College Sunday winning 14-5 in six innings and 16-1 in five innings. The No. 25 Lady Indians improve to 11-1, atop the Region IX standings and 26-4 overall. “It was a lot better day offensively for us,” said MCC Coach Mike Mendenhall. “I think we hit .600 on the day and played a lot better overall.”...

McCook Girls Tennis @ North Platte Doubles Invite Team Finish 1 Lexington 2 McCook 3 Ogallala 4 Adams Central 5 North Platte 6 Gothenburg 7 Scottsbluff 8 Alliance 9 Gering 10 Hershey 1 Doubles-Elizabeth McConville/Cassidy Rogers, 4-1, 2nd Place Def L. Anderson/G. Evert, Gothenburg 8-1...

What to think now about this March? Just two days ago, the drama was laboring, lots of blowouts, mostly nothing-to-see-here finishes. And then someone turned up the juice on the NCAA tournament. A St. John’s basket that electrified a program, from someone who for 39 minutes and 59 seconds had no points...a history-making, bracket-busting 3-pointer from an Iowa player, who wanted only then to run over and hug the mother that hadn’t seen him play a college game in years...a Vanderbilt half-court shot that looked so true, we might need Sir Isaac Newton himself to explain how it didn’t go in...hallowed names falling like bowling pins.. ...

The McCook Community College baseball team opened Region IX play Friday at home with a doubleheader sweep over Lamar Community College. MCC won 12-5 in Game 1 and came back with a ninth inning walk-off home run by sophomore Hunter Southey to take the second game, 9-8...