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Josie Hajny competed in the Team Roping and Break Away Roping at the Nuckolls County Fairgrounds, in the Annual High School Rodeo this weekend. Pictured is the breakaway. Josie roped her calf in under three seconds, but received a penalty of ten seconds for breaking the barrier....
What to do ? ? ? Our team played 31 minutes against a team with a strong football tradition of winning state titles. That team (Falls City Sacred Heart (FCSH) just intercepted a Raider pass and ran it back about 73 yards to tie the game, making the score 14-14 late in the 3rd quarter. You may have thought you'd played well enough that the FCSH interception and run-back TD to tie the score at 14-14 was just not fair. After all, you had possession of the ball for about 20 minutes, compared to...
The Lawrence-Nelson High School volleyball team left everything they had on the court, Thursday, in their annual rivalry match with Superior at Superior. The Raiders fell to Superior in three sets, 24-26, 17-25 and 18-25. The Raiders played Exeter-Milligan-Friend at Lawrence Tuesday with match results unavailable at press time. The first set saw both teams going at each other with everything they had while the packed gymnasium was rocking with the action. After the grueling first set loss,...
Thelma May (Dolnicek) Soucie, formerly of Fairfield, Nebraska, entered the arms of Jesus on Sept. 2, 2023, at Good Samaritan Village, Hastings, Nebraska, where she and her husband have been residents since July 2, 2023. She was 84 years old. Rosary was at 7 p.m., Sept. 6, at Livingston Butler Volland Funeral Home in Hastings. Mass of Christian Burial will be at 10 a.m. today (Thursday), Sept. 7, at Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in Deweese with Father Craig Clinch officiating. Burial...
The Lawrence-Nelson cross country program entered two runners at the Superior Invitational, Thursday. The 5,000 meter boys and girls races were run over the Superior Country Club course with temperatures near 90 degrees. Sawyer Cox finished in 36th place in the boys field of 70 runners with his time of 22:37.219. Kennedy Beale turned in a time of 29:16.938. She finished in 18th place in the 29 runner field. The Raiders visit Fairbury today (Thursday) for the Fairbury Invitational. First race time is set at 4 p.m....
The Rock Hills High School cross country team opened the season at the Tescott Invitational last Wednesday. The Grizzlies are fielding a team for the first time in several years as they have previously competed as part of a cooperative program with Pike Valley. The boys team took third place in the 5K race. Trystyn Reynolds finished 14th. Kobi Bowers took 21st place. Spencer Lindberg held 25th place. Cruz Navarro was in 33rd place with Noah Eakins following in 34th place. Hannah Simmelink medaled in the girls 5K with her seventh place finish....
The Rock Hills High School football season opened the season with wild 32-30 win over St. John’s-Tipton at Mankato Friday. The win marked the first time since 2018 that the Grizzlies emerged victorious from the game with their arch-rival and nemesis. Isaiah Ridgeway carried the ball 22 times for 212 yards and three touchdowns. Cooper McDill nabbed two interceptions for the defense. Additional statistics were unavailable at press time. The Grizzlies travel to Kensington, Friday, to take on Thunder Ridge who dropped their season opener to Alma 7...
The Rock Hills High School volleyball team visited Beloit last Tuesday for a triangular match with Natoma and St. John’s-Tipton. Rock Hills hosted a triangular match at Mankato Tuesday with Osborne and Thunder Ridge. Match results were unavailable at press time. The Grizzlies swept Natoma in two sets, 25-19 and 25-13, to open the season with a win. They encountered long time nemesis St. John’s-Tipton. They kept it close but fell in two sets, 18-25 and 18-25. Halle Mizner topped the kill list for Rock Hills with six against Natoma. Savannah Coi...
James Joseph Rohan, the son of George and Pauline (Krick) Rohan, was born on May 20, 1952, in Spalding, Nebraska. He died Aug. 22, 2023, at Mary Lanning Healthcare at Hastings, Nebraska at the age of 71 years, 3 months, 2 days. Jim was one of four children. He was a 1971 graduate of Spalding Academy and continued his education from Central Nebraska Technical College earning a vocational certificate of completion in heavy equipment technology in 1972. Three children were born from his union to...
David Allen Sugars, the son of Ray and Vivian Sugars, was born March 31, 1957, in Albany, New York, and died Sept. 2, 2023, in Chester, Nebraska, at the age of 66 years, 5 months, and 1 day. He moved to Chester where he grew up and attended school. On April 7, 1975, he was united in marriage to Mary E. Thompson. To this union was born, Jennifer and Jason. David served with the US Army and later the National Guard. He was a truck driver, owner and operator for many years. He also drove for...
Dedra Raine Russell, the daughter of Harlan and Marthena (Konkel) DeGarmo Jr., was born on April 5, 1966, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. She died on Sept. 2, 2023, at her mother's home in Elm- wood, Nebraska, the age of 57 years, 4 months, 28 days. Dedra attended schools in Dixon, California, and Elmwood, Nebraska and was an Elmwood High School graduate and attended Peru State College for one year. She was united in marriage to Eric Arden Russell on June 21, 1986, at St. Paul United Methodist...
Janice Marilyn Ryman, 95, was born on June 26, 1928, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska and died at Blue Valley Lutheran Home in Hebron, on Aug. 28. She was the daughter of Floyd W. Ryman and Pauline Moore Ryman. Her father, who was a dentist and avid aviator, died in a plane accident when Janice had just turned six years old. Janice lived with her Great Aunt Macie and Uncle Earl Yeast from 1937 to 1939 in Tecumseh while her mother returned to college. From 1939 to 1941 Janice, her brother Dick, and her mother, Pauline, lived in...
The Superior High School volleyball team recorded a win last Tuesday with their three set, 25-16. 25-12 and 25-14 sweep of Fillmore Central at Hebron. Superior retained their Nuckolls County bragging rights when they swept Lawrence-Nelson, at Lawrence, in three sets, 26-24, 25-17 and 25-18. Thursday. The Wildcats faced the Class C1 Aurora Huskies in their opening match of the Beatrice Invitational, at Beatrice, Saturday. They emerged with a two-set, 25-22 and 25-18 sweep. It took the Class B...
The Superior High School cross country team hosted the Superior Invitational meet run over the Superior Country Club course last Tuesday. Runners from Fillmore Central, McCool Junction, Grand Island Central Catholic, Exeter-Millligan-Friend, Hastings St. Cecilia, Silver Lake, Blue Hill, Sandy Creek, Red Cloud, Deshler, Fairbury and Lawrence-Nelson competed. The Superior boys team finished in fifth place in the eight team boys field with 86 points. Superior had no runners in the female division. There were 70 runners in the boys field while the...
It was another tough outing for the Superior Wildcats when they went up against the Bruning-Davenport-Shickley Eagles at Shickley Friday. Kickoff was moved back an hour to 8 p.m. because of the 90 plus degree temperature. Slightly cooler temperatures did not cool off the Eagles. B-D-S leapt out to a 28-0 lead at the end of the first quarter. They added 14 more in the second quarter to take 42-0 lead off the field at halftime. The 35- point mercy rule went into effect for the third and fourth quarters with the game being played with a running...
