Stories from Wednesday, May 24, 2017

We’ve called the Iowa Breakfast Study into question because it was funded by breakfast cereal companies, but there’s no doubt nutrition and other physiological factors play a part in mental performance. There’s more evidence of that, and it shows that you might want to consider the season when you send your students off to take the ACT or SAT tests that will determine whether they win scholarships...

Memorial Day weekend is quickly approaching us once again. The McCook American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars Posts and a number of community volunteers will be setting out flags on our veteran’s gravesites at Calvary, Memorial Park, and Riverview cemeteries in McCook on Saturday, May 27th at 9:00 am...

MINDEN, Neb. — The McCook AmFirst Legion B team needed only three innings to finish off Minden, 15-0, Monday night. McCook unleashed an 11-0 lead in the first inning which reached 15-0 through two frames. Mason Michaelis went on to finish the one-hit pitching effort before “mercy rule” was enforced...

OGALLALA, Neb. — Morgan Fawver drove an RBI-single into center field Tuesday night, but Ogallala countered with more runs and hits during its 12-3 Juniors baseball victory. No other details were obtained before today’s deadline. The McCook Juniors (0-2) are back home to play Cozad on Thursday with first pitch scheduled for 5:30 p.m...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. -- Medicine Valley’s Sheldon Johnsen fired an opening-round 84 to highlight Gazette golfers at the Class D state golf meet at Lake Maloney Golf Course. Johnsen’s 12-over 84 puts him in a tie for 13th place, alongside Creek Valley’s Brett Godfrey and Humphrey St. Francis’ Riley Huettner...

KEARNEY, Neb. -- Three Gazette-area golfers sit in the top 30 of the Class C field after Tuesday’s opening round at Meadowlark Hills Golf Course. Preston Carbaugh of Cambridge is tied for 21st with an 82, while Southern Valley’s Trent Krejdl and Ryder Lewis both fired an 83 to tie for 26th place...

LINCOLN, Neb. -- Two McCook Bison continue their play today in the 2017 Class B state golf meet at Lincoln’s Highlands Golf Course. Senior Kade Gray sits in a tie for 34th place after firing an 83 on Tuesday, while teammate Gabe Vielma enters Day 2 in 73rd place with a 101...

FELLING FIELD — Five runs batted in from Reid Loop helped lead the Roberts Farms Grasshoppers past the McCook National Bank Rivercats 10-2 on Tuesday. Loop and his teammates jumped on the Rivercats pitching staff early by scoring three first-inning runs...

Landon Kmoch drove in five runs on three hits to lead the Tigers Muckdogs past the Golden Plains Realty Lugnuts 16-6 on Tuesday. Kmoch was one of the ringleaders of the Muckdogs first inning rally that scored that resulted in three early runs. A double by Bryson Gullion followed by singles by Landon Kmoch and Carter Hartwell helped boost the Muckdogs to a lead in which they never would relinquish...

One hit is all you get when facing McCook Seniors pitching so far this season. Granted, two games are not two months, but Ogallala and Imperial would love to have Kansas City Royal star Alex Gordon’s .175 batting average. That wasn’t happening against Kaden Sitzman, who permitted just one Ogallala hit and struck out 10 in the 8-0 McCook win Tuesday evening...

BEAVER CITY, Neb. — A traffic stop in Arapahoe Monday led to the arrest of the driver and four other people in an Arapahoe home, all on drug charges. Furnas County Sheriff Kurt Kapperman said a deputy stopped a car at 8:38 p.m., near the east edge of town and found the driver, a 48-year-old Hastings man, had a suspended license...

McCOOK, Neb. — When Peggy Everitt first began her nursing career in 1974, there was little else a women could do career-wise. It was either nursing, teaching or secretarial, Everitt recalled. Even so, nursing turned out to be the right choice, as she will be retiring Friday after 43 years in the profession...

McCOOK, Neb. ‚— Andrew Ambriz has been named the new Executive Director of McCook Economic Development Corp. Dennis Berry, MEDC President, said Ambriz, who has been serving as interim director since March, will officially assume duties June 1. “It’s been a privilege to serve the McCook community through my interim role,” Ambriz said. “It’s an honor to be selected as the executive director and to lead this organization toward creating positive change in our area.”...

The 2017-18 Southwest Nebraska Leadership Class participate in Orientation Monday evening at the McCook Community College Student Union building. They include, front from left, Anita Mockry, Erinn Brown, Jordan Johnson, Stephanie Eaton, Amanda Buhr, Jody Sides, Merrilee Craig; back, Pat Fawver, Lori Schmidt, Brad Langdorf, Matt Davidson, Julia Bauer, Michael Kuhlen, Laura Ruggles, Michele Weimer, Andrew Ambriz. ...

The Wilsonville Saddle Club plans its 50th annual and last-ever “Wilsonville Rodeo,” Saturday and Sunday, June 3 and 4, at 1:30 p.m. each day, in the arena on Highway 89. Organizers schedule the parade Saturday, at 10:30 a.m. A photographic highlight of the Wilsonville rodeo shows bull fighter “Flyin’ Ryan” Davis — of Beaver City at the time of the 43rd annual rodeo in 2010 — performing a backflip over the head of “Money Maker,” after the Rodeo Rose Productions bull dislodged cowboy Jordan McAllister.. ...