Stories from Monday, May 15, 2006

Coyotes win school's first-ever national team title LINCOLN -- At last. Nebraska Wesleyan University finally has an entire team that can call itself NCAA National Champions. The Prairie Wolves won their first team title in school history Thursday at the final round of the 2006 NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championships hosted by NWU and Firethorn Golf Club...

GRAND ISLAND -- The McCook High School boys golf team placed sixth at the Grand Island Invitational Friday with a 347 score and senior Brandon Crick placed 14th with an 81. The tournament was played at Riverside Golf Club in Grand Island. Kearney won the team title with a 319 score, followed by Lexington 324, Norfolk 326, Fremont 327 and North Platte 330...

QUINTER, Kan. -- Rawlins County's boys won the Northwest Kansas League track meet Friday at Quinter. The Rawlins County girls were third in the overall standings. Colby won on the girls side. Oberlin's girls took second, with Rawlins County following in third and St. Francis fourth...

HOXIE -- The Decatur Community (Oberlin) golf team won the Northwest Kansas League tournament at Hoxie Friday. Goodland finished in second for the day, with Colby and Hoxie taking third and fourth. Quinter took fifth and Oakley and Rawlins County were sixth and seventh...

Athough May 12 begins Mother's Day weekend, the action at McCook Speedway seemed to center around the family, as many siblings who run in the same classes battled each other. David Murray Jr. and his daughter Sara, both of Oberlin, shared another bond, as they, along with Jason Davis of Norton, Jason Koch of Cambridge and Larry Pollmann of McCook, were the center of attention after the races, being A Feature winners...

The McCook Area Sertoma Club announced its selections for 15th Annual Sertoma All-Star Volleyball Classic at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 17. Twenty-four of the area's recently graduated volleyball stars meet at McCook High School. Amy Beyer of Hershey and Julie Smith of Sutherland will coach the West Team...

McCook Junior College opened its doors in 1926. The 1926/27 school year was also the year of the first men's basketball team at the college. The classes of MJC were initially held on the third floor of the original YMCA, at the corner of Norris and D Street. With a basketball court on the second floor of the building, it seemed a natural for the school to field a basketball team at the first opportunity...

With gasoline nearly 75 cents a gallon higher than it was last year, many of us can't believe the numbers we see when it's time to fill our tanks. At the same time, the numbers on our bathroom scales may be just as big a shock. The answer to both problems probably is already in your garage or back yard...

It was the afternoon after the election-- Wednesday, May 10, 2006. As the hectic day drew to a close, I was pondering what to write about for my next column. Then it hit me, like a smack to the side of the head. "Just tell about the idea which was bouncing around in your office today. Tell about the tiny microdiesel reactor."...

Dee Friehe, fifth grade instructor at Central Elementary, received the Allen D. Strunk Educator of the Year award Sunday at Weiland Field. "My family and friends won't believe this," she said as she accepted her award, "but I'm actually at a loss for words."...

Despite the frequent gusts of wind, graduating seniors from McCook Senior High held their heads high -- and hung on to their caps -- as they accepted their diplomas at Weiland Field on Sunday. Senior speaker Danielle Pettera spoke in a voice choked with emotion of the changes the class experienced in their 13 years of school, from the "new friends" at Central, "new freedoms" at the junior high, and finally high school...

Sept. 8, 1912 - May 13, 2006 BEAVER CITY -- Cecil I Taylor, 93, of Kearney, formerly of Beaver City, died Saturday ( May 13, 2006), at Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney. He was born Sept. 8, 1912, in Furnas County, to Henry C. and Mary (Noirfalife) Taylor...