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Last weekend's basketball games got cut in half because of to an ice storm out west. Franklin did not make the trip on Friday night, so the only game for the Lady Raiders came on Saturday when BDS came to play. The girls played a great first period, but several components of the game came back to haunt the girls in the final three periods. L-N 12 2 7 12 - 33 BDS 7 17 12 12 - 48 Brynn Harrison scored the first two and the last two point of the first period. In between those points Kara Menke...
The word, "Heartbreaker" is often used in sports reporting. It can give a connotation of many things, usually something sad, or something that was not supposed to happen. Well, that could maybe describe the Raider's game with BDS last Saturday. The boys had a chance to prepare for an extra day when the Friday night game with Franklin was postponed because of weather conditions. BDS is traditionally one of the stronger teams in small town basketball in south central Nebraska, but L-N had the...
Rock Hills Lady Grizzlies handily defeated the Thunder Ridge Lady Longhorns by a score of 55-29 in a pre-season tournament game held on Dec.10, in Stockton, dominating the offensive and defensive scheme of things from start to finish. Bethany Simmelink, the team’s leader, joined with her teammates in swarming the Longhorns enough with defensive pressure, including turnovers, along with a sharp offensive push, to prevent the Longhorns from scoring. Jenna Barnes of the Longhorns finally ended the scoring drought in the first quarter, when she s...
Carlee Hinz placed first in the 145 pound class to score 26 points at the Crete girls tournament Saturday. Cheyenne Stacy (120 pounds) placed second and scored 20 points. The pair compete for the Superior - Deshler-Lawrence-Nelson wrestling cooperative. Hinz has a 4-0 record and Stacy a 3-1 record....
The Superior Wildcat girls won over the Fairbury Jeffs 50-24 last Tuesday at Fairbury for their second straight win of the season. Superior out scored Fairbury 17 to 7 the first quarter to set the tone of the game. However, the Jeffs rallied and both teams scored 10 points in the second quarter. Superior answered with 16 points during the third quarter while the Jeffs scored only two. Scoring slowed during the fourth quarter. Superior scored 7 and the Jeffs 5. Reagan Meyer lead the Wildcats by...
Superior Wildcat boys lost at home to Wilber-Claytonia in Superior Saturday, 36-58. Trenton Siebecker, coach, said, "We just had an off night. Sometimes those things happen." Turnovers and fouls in the first half were issues for the Wildcats, pared with Wilber-Claytonia's ability to consistently add points from the free throw line. Even though the Wildcat starters stand over six foot, Wilber-Claytonia had a height advantage. Wilber-Claytonia scored first. However, the Cats were only down two...
Saturday the Superior boys competed at Meridian in the Bob Oliver Pin Invitational with 20 other teams. The Wildcats placed second with 225 points. Tri-County won the tournament with 240 points. Meridian was in third place with 160 points. Following is a list of Superior Wildcats who placed at the meet. It included each contestant’s weight class, placing, name and record. 126 1st Holden McDonald 10-1 157 1st Kamden Boyles 9-2 190 1st Kyler Boyles 9-1 120 2nd Rigley McDonald 2-6 150 2nd Carl Lupin 1-7 144 3rd Joe Kerrigan 6-5 215 3rd Montey A...
Wrestling fans may have noticed, there are some rule changes this season. Take downs are scored differently this year. A take down is now worth three points. Last year, a wrestler earned only two. Another scoring change relates to seconds a wrestler keeps their opponent’s back on the matt. Two seconds earns two points, three seconds - three points and four seconds earns four point. Last year three seconds earned a wrestler two points and five seconds earned three points. A third major change related to boundary rules. This season if either w...
Lawrence-Nelson wrestlers traveled to Meridian for the Bob Oliver Invitational Saturday. The team earned 20 points. Leslie Corman was fourth place in the 150 pound class, Beck Grayhm placed fourth in the 165 pound class, Augustus Harrison placed fifth in the 165 pound class, Monte Hajny and Parker Ostdiek each placed eighth. Hajny in the 144 pound class and Ostdiek in the 215-285 weight range class. Ace Wulf placed tenth in the 190 pound class....
The 2024-25 Basketball seasons for high schools across Nebraska began last weekend with the Raider boys’ teams playing Friday and Saturday night. They split the games in the won-loss categories, but showed a promise of an interesting team this year. Game summaries follow. L-N – ARAPAHOE: 39-25: It’s been said, “the biggest improvements of basketball teams comes after the first game.” Judging from the second game of the season for L-N, that might just be true. L-N traveled further west on Saturday night to meet Arapahoe High School and came back...
The L-N Lady Raiders opened their 2024-25 basketball season last weekend with a bit of a rough opening. Both games were lost. Enough high-lights were seen, however, that may bode well for the coming season. The game summaries: L-N – RED CLOUD: 27-55: It may have been the early season “jitters,” but the girls had trouble putting the ball through the hoop, hitting only 21 percent while Red Cloud hit close to 40 percent. A highlight for L-N was the rebounding where they held a 37-33 edge. Kara Menke led all scorers with 17, hitting 6 of 12 from...
Members of the Superior High School bowling team kicked off their season last Thursday when the took on Araphoe at Superior Bowl. Superior boys won with Braden Wulf scoring the most points. The girls lost. Teagan Cool scored the most points for the Wildcats. Tuesday, the team competed in a bowling dual at McCool Junction. Saturday they are to be part of a seven team tournament in Hastings. The team is coached by Nelson Petersen....
Friday, Superior hosted a triangular wrestling meet with Meridian and Thayer Central. Superior earned 49 points to Meridian's 12. Earning points for the Wildcats were Xavier Pierce (120 pound) - 6 points; Holden McDonald* (126 pound) 4 points; Dean Baden* (132 pound) 4 points; Joe Kerrigan (144 pound) 6 points; Cooper Benjamin (150 pound) 6 points; Lincoln Sander (157 pound) 6 points; Kamden Boyles* (165 pound) 5 points; Kyler Boyles* (190 pound) 6 points) Christian Osweiler (6 points). However,...
The Superior girls basketball team opened regular season play with a win over Sutton 52 to 32 Thursday evening in Sutton. Last year, Sutton beat the Wildcats 52 to 39. The Superior Wildcats played strong defense and never trailed. At halftime, they were leading 35-24. At one point, during the second quarter, they lead by 18 points. However, the Sutton Fillies out-scored the Wildcats in the third quarter 11 to 4 and cut Superior's 18 point lead in half. At the half, it looked as though the...
Lawrence-Nelson High School, along with most all other high schools across Nebraska, will begin the winter sports seasons for the schools. L-N will have three sports again this year and a very brief introduction follows: BASKETBALL: It seems that most every year, the basketball teams carry a heavy load in terms of how hard of a schedule they have. This year, 20 games are listed on the NSAA Website for L-N. Of those 20 games, eight are with class D-2 schools (L-N is D-2 this season as well). Twelve teams are either D-1 or C-2. The season begins...
The Sandy Creek Cougars defeated Stanton 44-42 at UNL’s Memorial Stadium Monday afternoon for their first ever appearance at the state championship games. A year ago Stanton defeated Sandy Creek in the semifinals and went on to win the state title. Stanton scored first and at the half led with a score of 28 to 20. However, Sandy Creek picked up 24 points in the third quarter while Stanton scored only eight and although Sandy Creek did not score in the fourth, they held their lead for a win. Sandy Creek’s string of wins to the finals are as fol...
The Superior Wildcats are scheduled to play their opening basketball games of the season with a jamboree at Southern, Monday, Dec. 2 Bowlers will open their season with a home dual against Arapahoe, Thursday, Dec. 5 at Superior Bowl. Superior High School wrestlers are to complete in a quadrangular at home Friday, Dec. 6. The following day they are at Harvard....
The Superior Wildcat Volleyball team pushed through five sets with both Cedar Catholic (Thursday), then Bruning-Davenport-Shickley (Friday) to secure an opportunity to win the Nebraska State D-1 title on Saturday. It was the fifth time this season Lady Cats out lasted its opponent in five sets. Reagan Meyers, a 6'2" sophomore leads the team statistically in kills, aces and digs. However veteran players Jordan Duncan - junior, Halle Bargen - senior, Mia Gardner - senior, Faith Butler - senior,...
The Eli-Saline Cardinals ended the Rock Hills football team post-season hopes with a 56-8 defeat at Brookville, Friday. The Grizzlies offense never materialized and the Cardinals offense was too productive to slow down. Isaiah Ridgeway scored the lone Rock Hills touchdown on the ground. Christian Wurm added the two-point conversion. The Grizzlies ended the season with a 5-4 record. It was the final Rock Hills football game for seniors Ridgeway, Wurm, Cooper McDill, Eli Vance, Nate Meyers, Camden Ward, Jevan Herfel and Aaron...
The Superior High School volleyball team was dotted with nail-biters this week, but their persistence paid off. With a win over Bruning-Shickley-Davenport, they emerged as the subdistricts D1-7 winner. This qualified them for the D1 district finals. Saturday's win over Bruwell lets them advance to the state show. It was their first district win since 2019. The Wildcats were seeded number two in this un-district fray behind number one seed Bruning-Davenport Shickley. Superior was ranked number...
The Lawrence-Nelson Raiders volleyball team ended their 2024 campaign with a sub-district play-in game loss to Hampton, at Meridian, Monday. The Raiders closed out their regular season schedule last Tuesday at the Franklin triangular. They downed Giltner, 25-13 and 25-14, in two sets. They dropped host Franklin, 25-21 and 25-22, in two sets. The Raiders made Hampton work for the win taking them to four sets, 21-25, 23-25, 25-9 and 26-24. Lawrence-Nelson finished the season with a 12-25 record....
. . . And then, the season ended! The L-N Raider football team repeated a trip to Clarks, Nebraska, Thursday to play the High Plains High School (HP) in the first round game of the state 8-man football playoffs. Two weeks earlier HP won the regular season game 47 to 20. Last week a determined Raider team came up just short of two points in a 20 to 22 loss. L-N put together a plan that cut HP's points to less than half of the last game, but penalties and HP's "big play" offense foiled the Raider...
It ended too soon for the storybook Roc Hills High School volleyball team. Capping off their most successful regular season capaign ever with a 33-3 record, they held high hopes for the post season. They breezed through the regional bracket at Mankato last Tuesday.They disposed of Decatur Community 25-22 and 25-9. They punched their ticket to sub-state play with their two-set 25-17 and 25-11 trouncing of Rawlins County. Because of their record, the Grizzlies hosted the sub-state matches at Manka...
The Rock Hills High School football team concluded their 2024 regular season schedule with a 56-8 loss to the Clifton-Clyde Eagles at Clyde Friday. The Rock Hills High School football team departed with a loss in their final regular season game. The Grizzlies finished with a 5-3 record. The Grizzly offense was nonexistent against a staunch Eagles defense. The lone Rock Hills touchdown came from an interception return by Isaiah Ridgeway. Ridgeway completed 1 of 2 pass attempts for 13 yards....
The Rock Hills High School cross country team competed for places at the state championship meet at the 1A regional meet run over the Sabetha Country Club course Saturday. There were 27 schools represented at the meet. The Grizzlies fell one place short of qualifying as a team. They came in fifth. Trystyn Reynolds took 15th place in the individual standings and earned a place at the state meet being run at Wamego Saturday. Race time is 10:30 a.m. Kobi Bowers placed 25th at the regional meet. Spencer Lindberg picked up 42nd place. Griffen...
