Stories from Monday, April 4, 2022

The McCook Community College softball team picked up a pair of wins on Purple-Out Day Saturday over North Platte to stretch the team’s winning streak to 10 games. MCC won 8-0 and 9-3. “I’m proud of the kids for their 10th straight win, for going through first round of the Nebraska Conference schedule 6-0 and separating themselves from those teams,” said MCC Coach Kevin Kaalberg...

LA JUNTA, Colo. – The McCook Community College Golf team won the Otero Junior College Tournament here Friday with a 15-stroke victory. MCC also had three of the top four individuals for the two-day tournament. “As nice as yesterday was, today was the opposite,” said MCC Coach Tyler Loop. “It was very cold, windy, and cloudy. We even had a small amount of rain come through.”...

SUTHERLAND, Neb. — Team results and all top four Gazette-area placers at Saturday’s Sutherland Track-Field Invitational. Personal records appear as PRs. BOYS Teams: 1. Hitchcock County 111, 2. Hershey 97, 3. Wallace 71, 4. Wauneta-Palisade 61, 5. Paxton 53, 6. Sutherland 45, 7. Creek Valley 38, 8. South Platte 31, 9. Maywood-Hayes Center 9, 10. Hyannis 8...

LA JUNTA, Colo. – The McCook Community College baseball team took a pair of games Sunday over Otero Junior College to take the four-game weekend set 3-1. MCC won the first game Sunday 4-1 and took the second 14-6. “We got two different games today,” said MCC Coach Jon Olsen...

Chadron State College track and field athletes placed among the top three in their events a dozen times Saturday the Central Nebraska Challenge in Kearney. The competition was stiff with at least a dozen teams from four states entered. “It was really good meet for us,” Coach Riley Northrup said. “We had a lot of personal best marks, some provisional nationally qualifying marks and did well against tough competition.”...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — It should come as no shock that North Carolina and Kansas are playing for the national title. Their names, complete with their intertwined histories, are cemented on the short-short list of college basketball’s greatest programs. There’s a bit of a twist in 2022. While lots of folks could have envisioned an obvious path for the top-seeded, fully loaded Jayhawks to reach this point, this run by the Tar Heels feels as if it came out of the Carolina blue...

OMAHA, Neb. — Troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol have arrested three people after incidents in which a suspect fought a trooper over the weekend. Saturday, at approximately 7:20 p.m., a trooper observed a Chevrolet Impala fail to yield the right of way as it exited Interstate 80 and began traveling northbound on Highway 2. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — All McCook and Gazette-area top six JV placers at Thursday’s Leroy Hoehner Track/Field Invitational. Team scores were not recorded. BOYS 100 meters: 1. Lucas Gomez-Wilson, MC, 11.87; 2. Van Keslin, MC, 11.96; 6. Nate Reiners, MC, 12.48. ...

McCOOK, Neb. — All McCook and Gazette-area top six JV placers at Thursday’s Leroy Hoehner Track/Field Invitational. Team scores were not recorded. GIRLS 100 meters: 1. E. Malm, Holdrege, 14.01; 6. Dani Johnson, MC, 15.9. 100-hurdles: 1. M. Lashley, Holdrege, 20.23; 4. ...

ELWOOD, Neb. — Team scores and all top four Gazette-area placers at Friday’s Hi-Line Track/Field Invitational. Personal records include a (PR): GIRLS Top eight of 13 teams: 1. South Loup 136.2, 2. Southwest 60.6, 3. Loomis 57.6, 4. Elm Creek 48, 5. Arapahoe 46, 6. Wilcox-Hildreth 41, 7. Southern Valley 33, 8. Medicine Valley 24...

McCOOK, Neb. — Red Willow County locked prices for a major expense Monday, but still could switch companies that administer the self-insurance plan it uses to provide health insurance and drug coverage for county employees. Amber Anderson of the Olson Group said the county had a relatively low amount of insurance claims so far this year, more than $430,000, but said the county would have to cover the costs of one mandatory audit of its health insurance program and another one which would need to be done on a less urgent basis. ...