Stories from Monday, February 3, 2020

Theresa Ann (Schaaf) Voelkel Marsh March 21, 1945 - Jan. 27, 2020 TUCSON, Ariz. — Theresa Ann (Schaaf) Voelkel Marsh, 74, of Tucson, passed away Jan. 27, 2020, with her family by her side. Theresa was born March 21, 1945, at St. Catherine’s Hospital in McCook, Neb., to Myron Donald and Esther Wilhelmina Schaaf. ...

Kenneth Henry Albert Aug. 9, 1930 - Jan. 30, 2020 CULBERTSON, Neb. — Kenneth Henry Albert, age 89, of Culbertson, passed away on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, at Community Hospital in McCook, surrounded by family. Kenneth was born Aug. 9, 1930, in Culbertson to Henry and Marie (Gies) Albert. ...

Erma Lee Pfeiffer July 19, 1948 - Jan. 30, 2020 ARAPAHOE, Neb. — Erma Lee Pfeiffer, 71, of Arapahoe, died Thursday (Jan. 30, 2020), at Lexington Regional Center, Lexington, Neb. She was born on July 19, 1948, south of Arapahoe to J. Thomas and Glady L. (Reitz) Utterback...

McCOOK, Neb. — Red Willow County’s fair board manager for 28 years sees changes on the horizon, and she says, “They’ll all be good.” Deb Lafferty introduced Jiles Bowman of Gordon, the new fair board manager, to county commissioners at their meeting Jan. 6. It’s time that the fairgrounds office moves forward technologically, she said, and Bowman was the best of 80 applications for her position. “The board interviewed seven really good applicants,” Deb said...

ARAPAHOE, Neb. — The Arapahoe Warriors outwrestled 11 teams for second place with 115 points at their home invitational on Saturday. Mullen won Friday’s Medicine Valley Invite and then tallied 181 to win at Arapahoe. Southern Valley was the area’s next highest placer, finishing ninth while totaling 53 points...

CURTIS, Neb. — The Southwest Roughriders scored 101 points and placed second among 15 teams wrestling at Friday’s Medicine Valley Invitational. Only the Mullen Broncos scored more with 168.5 points to win that team title. Elm Creek earned (82 points) followed by Sedgwick County, Colo. (74)...

LAMAR, Colo. – The Lamar Community College men downed McCook Community College Friday night 92-82. The two teams were tied at 35-35 with one minute left in the half when Lamar went on an 8-1 run to close out the half to lead 43-36 and rode the momentum with hot second-half shooting, out-scoring the Indians 12-0 from the 3-point line...

LAMAR, Colo. – The McCook Community College women’s basketball team rolled over Lamar Community College Friday, 74-42. “I thought we came out and really guarded well tonight,” said MCC Coach Brandon Pritchett. “We didn’t shoot it well in the first half but we forced Lamar to take contested shots.”...

The team title race was tight as a headlock with McCook’s wrestlers falling just short of winning their Dual Invitational on Friday. The Bison, Alliance, Amherst and North Platte all owned three duals with McCook holding a 38-28 lead over those rival Bulldogs...

McCOOK, Neb. — Pressure? What pressure? Tied 38-38 with only two seconds or so remaining, Nolan Burrell stepped to the line like another Dundy County-Stratton practice Saturday night. “What was I thinking. Two bounces and take the shot” Burrell said...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — McCook took a 9-0 lead and never let Minden get much closer to during the 57-32 Southwest Conference semifinal win Friday. The Bison nearly matched a 28-point over Minden two weekends earlier, though those Whippets (6-11) rebounded to beat Ainsworth for third place on Saturday...

McCOOK, Neb. — There aren’t many hotter basketball teams nearby than the Cambridge Trojans following their 57-43 RPAC finals win over Dundy County-Stratton Saturday evening. The Trojans shot 54 percent from two-point rage and even sharper with threes (57 percent) to clinch Cambridge’s first girls title since 2009...

NORTH PLATTE, Neb. — Class C-1 No. 5 Ogallala ran away with Saturday’s Southwest Conference championship game, but the McCook Bison were already looking forward to a rematch. “We had mistakes, correctable mistakes,” Bison coach Joe Imus said about the 82-56 loss at Mid-Plains Community College. “We certainly didn’t come in here expecting anything less than a win.”...