Stories from Thursday, April 12, 2007

TRENTON -- McCook St. Patrick's track teams competed in the Hitchcock County Junior High invitational Wednesday. Hayes Center won the girls team title, with St. Pats following in second and Hitchcock County taking third. Maywood finished fourth and Medicine Valley was fifth...

The McCook Community College baseball team swept a doubleheader from Northeastern Junior College, Sterling, Colo., Wednesday at the Jaycee Sports Complex. MCC defeated NJC 2-1 in 10 innings in the opener and 5-1 in the nightcap. Chris Reynolds, a sophomore left-handed pitcher from Sheridan, Wyo., was the winning pitcher in the first game. He has a 3-4 record...

GRANT -- Chase County's girls won the E. Lee Todd Memorial track and field meet in Grant Tuesday. Ogallala won on the boys side with the Longhorns following in second. Perkins County's girls took third, Ogallala was fourth and Southwest took fourth...

LINCOLN -- Football fans throughout the United States will have an opportunity to watch Saturday's Nebraska's Red-White Game from Memorial Stadium. The Nebraska Athletic Department and NFL Network have reached an agreement for the game to be carried on a tape-delay basis on the network on Saturday evening at 8 p.m. CDT...

WICHITA, Kan. -- Damon Sublett's two-run eighth-inning single capped a four-run rally, as No. 11 Wichita State pulled a 5-3 come-from-behind victory over Nebraska Wednesday night at Eck Stadium. The Shockers (27-8) trailed 3-1 entering the bottom of the eighth, but rallied for four runs on four hits and two walks against the Husker bullpen, using an RBI double from Conor Gillespie and an infield single off the bat of Tyler Weber to tie the score at three before Sublett gave WSU its first lead of the night with a two-run single to center.. ...

CAMBRIDGE -- Area senior basketball players have been chosen to to play on the East and West teams for the Cambridge School Organization. The games will be played in the Cambridge High School gym on May 25. The girls game begins at 6 p.m., and the boys play at 8 p.m...

KEARNEY -- Junior Melissa Hinkley went for 4 for 4 with two homers and had a dramatic return to the softball diamond as Nebraska-Kearney swept Fort Hays State, 1-0 and 8-5, Wednesday afternoon at Dryden Park. UNK (19-10) continues to play well, having won 11 of its last 13 games. The Tigers (13-25), now of the MIAA, have yet to win a road game this year (0-13)...

Sept. 6, 1928 - April 10, 2007 Donald E. Foster, 78, died Tuesday (April 10, 2007) at the Cambridge Hospital. He was born Sept. 6, 1928, to Harold O. and Edith (Moore) Foster in Cambridge.  He attended Indianola Public Schools. On Dec. 28, 1951, he married Joe Ann Weintz in Cambridge. ...

Nov. 25, 1955 - April 10, 2007 Dr. John Carlson Grove died Tuesday (April 10, 2007) at North Platte Great Plains Regional Medical Center as a result of a massive heart attack. He was 51 years old. Dr. Grove was born on Nov. 25, 1955, in Omaha to Vel and Amy B. (Carlson) Grove. He graduated from Benson High School in 1974. He furthered his education at Washington University in St. Louis and the UN Medical Center in Omaha...

Southwest Nebraska is making the real sacrifice, State Sen. Mark Christensen is told during a conference call Thursday.

A silhouette of an American Indian warrior watches traffic from a hillside about a mile east of Stratton. Recently placed on Danny Rife's land on the north side of U.S. Highway 34, the figure should be in a good position to observe the approaching snowstorm.

College close to home. It's been one of the most appealing and important advantages of community colleges throughout the years. McCook Community College spotlighted several successful graduates during last year's 80th anniversary of the founding of Nebraska's first junior college, and they shared at least one view in common:...

I would like to thank Gene Morris for his column on Monday, April 9, 2007, titled "More Ideas for McCook's 125th." I do believe that he has been either a mouse in the corner quietly attending our 125th Celebration Committee meetings, he has psychic powers, or perhaps it is just that he and I have similar ideas in this subject area! I thank you for your column, Mr. Morris, because perhaps this is an appropriate time to publicly unveil an idea I have had...

As of Wednesday, there were 3,292 American soldiers who have died in Iraq. As of Wednesday there were 3,292 American families that sent their son or daughter, husband or wife, mother or father, and brother or sister off to war -- never to see them again...