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The Minden Whippets won 46-40 over the Superior Lady Wildcats in overtime, Friday night, in the first round of the Grand Island Central Catholic Holiday tournament. Throughout the game, the teams' scores were tied several times. Then one or the other team would take off with a run to lead. For example, Superior had a six point lead in the fourth quarter. Minden, the second ranked team in C-1, out played Superior, the second ranked D-1 team, in overtime earning them a season record of 7-1. It...
The Superior Wildcats boys basketball team broke a 21 game losing streak when they won over the Meridian Mustangs Friday evening in Daykin with a score of 49 to 36. The box score was 15 to 11 in the first quarter, tied at 8 each in the second, 10 to nine in the third and 16 to 8 in the fourth. Saturday, Superior hosted the Centennial Broncos. The Wildcats played a clean, methodical game with a focus on three point baskets, seldom shooting inside the post. The Broncos out scored the Wildcats 57 t...
Competition stiffened this week for the Superior Wildcat Wrestling team when they traveled to Hooper for the Dan Mowinkel-LonganView Invitational. Superior earned 39 points in a field of 17 teams, all of which scored more than the Wildcats. Battle Creek won the tournament with 245 points. Other teams who scored more than 100 points were Syracuse, Central City, Milford and Tekaman-Herman. Kyler Boyles placed fifth in the 190 pound weight class. Kamden Boyles placed fourth in the 150 pound bracket to earn points for the Wildcats. The rookie...
Sadie Cornell , a five foot five inch senior, put the Superior Wildcats girls team in the spotlight this week, when she reached the 1,000 point scoring mark in her high school basketball career. Saturday, she scored 20 points for the Lady Cats when they played Centennial in Superior. Regan Meyer, a 6'2" sophomore, scored 21. Maddie Bargen and Faith Butler both added seven points and Hallie Bargen added five. Rayne Biltoft added six points with two-three pointers in the fourth. They scored 57...
As noted before L-N plays a tough schedule and this week showed that clearly. The boys won over Class D-2 Shelton, but got bounced by Class C-2 EMF. Seems they often have won/loss weekend often because so many of the games are against larger schools. The results of last weekend games: L-N – SHELTON: 46-43: Last week, the first of two games before the Holiday break involved a trip to Shelton to play the 4-1 Shelton High School on Thursday night. The game was as interesting as the final score might indicate. The box score: L-N 8 16 15 7 - 46 S...
The Lady Raiders had a rough weekend dropping two game. A trip to Shelton did not bode well for L-N and then the girls suffered a cold first period against Exeter-Milligan-Friend (EMF), but played better for the rest of the game. L-N – SHELTON: 19 – 56: Raider turnovers and a scarcity of rebounds allowed Shelton to control this game and rack up another win for Shelton. The Raiders just couldn’t get their game together and the high point scorer for L-N was Kali Cassell with four points. L-N 4 3 8 4 - 19 Shelton 17 15 15 8 - 56 Statistics: (Scor...
As noted before L-N plays a tough schedule and this week showed that clearly. The boys won over Class D-2 Shelton, but got bounced by Class C-2 EMF. Seems they often have won/loss weekend often because so many of the games are against larger schools. The results of last weekend games: L-N – SHELTON: 46-43: Last week, the first of two games before the Holiday break involved a trip to Shelton to play the 4-1 Shelton High School on Thursday night. The game was as interesting as the final score m...
The Lady Raiders had a rough weekend dropping two game. A trip to Shelton did not bode well for L-N and then the girls suffered a cold first period against Exeter-Milligan-Friend (EMF), but played better for the rest of the game. L-N – SHELTON: 19 – 56: Raider turnovers and a scarcity of rebounds allowed Shelton to control this game and rack up another win for Shelton. The Raiders just couldn't get their game together and the high point scorer for L-N was Kali Cassell with four points. L-N 4 3...
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....
