Stories from Monday, June 10, 2019

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — A pool team from McCook will advance to the American Poolplayers Association (APA) 9-Ball World Pool Championship in Las Vegas after winning the Western Nebraska APA 9-Ball World Qualifier recently. “We’re Solids, Right?” out of TJ’s Family Fun Center in McCook was one of three 9-Ball teams from the Western Nebraska APA Pool League that earned a trip to the Vegas Championship...

Remember the good old days? When that 20-pound, black, rotary-dial hard-wired telephone in the den rang, the family rushed to answer it. Today, when you feel your smartphone vibrate, you’ll check out the caller ID before answering, if then. More and more of us are ignoring calls altogether, checking voicemail later at our leisure...

Hopefully, fishermen can return to our manmade reservoirs here in Nebraska after our tornadoes and other serious weather problems. Recently, I read a story about how fishing was done on the Sea of Galilee at the time of Jesus Christ. Generally speaking four or five people fished in one or more boats. They fished at night so the fish could not see their nets and be scared away...

McCook ran into some tough North Platte St. Pat’s defense (above) while Southwest and Wallace ) were among other southwest Nebraska teams who competed in a McCook Community College summer round-robin tournament on Saturday...

KEARNEY, Neb. — McCook’s First Central Bank Juniors finished 0-4 during a tough Kearney Legion Baseball tournament last weekend. Quick recaps from gamechanger.com aout each contest: Waverly 9, FCB 6 FCB stayed in it until the end, but Waverly Superior Chiropractic pulled away late in a 9-6 victory on Saturday...

OBERLIN, Kan. — Spike strips finally stopped a speeding Colorado car carrying illegal drugs late Friday evening, and its driver is jailed in Oberlin facing charges of flight to avoid arrest and reckless driving in addition to drug possession. Decatur County Sheriff Ken Badsky reports this morning that a deputy received a report at about 9 p.m., Friday, of an erratic driver westbound out of Norton on Highway 36. ...

Wayne Krausnick honors his 100-year-old grandmother during the Saturday evening meal. Krausnick purchased his ranch via a loan from his grandparents and told the audience that there had been many changes at the ranch through the generations. The effects of early flooding saw the Enders dam built near the property in 1952. ...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — The McCook National Bank Seniors scored in five of six innings against Ogallala only to be blanked for seven vs. North Platte at last weekend’s North Platte Tournament. Trae Koetter delivered three hits to ignite a 9-2 victory over Ogallala in Friday’s tourney opener...

AUSTIN, Texas —Sinclaire Johnson claimed a national title in the 1,500 meters for the Oklahoma State women’s track and field teams in the final day of the collegiate season on Saturday. Johnson set the NCAA Outdoor Championships’ meet record in a time of 4:05.98, which also clocked in as the second-fastest 1,500-meter time in collegiate history. Only Jenny Simpson (Barringer) has run a faster time in the history of collegiate track and field...

McCOOK, Neb. — My Family Vision Clinic Lug Nuts lost the lead late in a 7-6 defeat to Boutique Air Hot Rods on Friday. The game was tied 6-6 with Air Hot Rods batting in the top of the fifth when Mason West singled on a 2-2 count, scoring one run. My Family Vision Clinic Lug Nuts lost despite out-hitting Boutique Air Hot Rods 8-6...

Eleven passengers at a time enjoyed rides over North Platte over the weekend, including a view of the Union Pacific Bailey Yards, above, in a 1928 Ford Tri-Motor, thanks to the Experimental Aircraft Association. Like the Gazette’s 1929 Newsboy, the Tri-Motor has been restored, but unlike the Curtiss, the Ford “City of Wichita” is not spending its time in a museum. ...