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The 2021 High School Volleyball season is now safely in the record books with the State Tournament just completed. L-N ended the season in the District Finals with a won-loss record of 17-15. This year the Lady Raiders were led by four seniors, a couple of juniors, a lone sophomores and a couple of freshmen. They met the usual array of higher Class teams, in fact, 20 of the 32 games were against Class D-1 or C-2 teams. L-N did well against the D-2 teams but could not be consistent against all of the larger Class team. Six of the opponents...
It was a roller coaster ride of a state Class C-2 volleyball tournament for the Superior High School team. The Wildcats entered the tournament as the number four seed. They opened tournament play Thursday at the Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln against the Amherst Broncos, the number five seeded team. The two evenly matched teams slugged it out over five sets with Superior emerging as the match winner, 25-21, 21-25,25-16,11-25 and 15-7. Superior's reward for the win was to advance to the Friday...
Atlee Kobza (15) cradles the ball for Superior during Thursday's opening State Class C-2 volleyball tournament against Amherst at Lincoln's Pinnacle Bank Arena....
The Superior High School volleyball team has qualified for the state tournament for the fifth consecutive year. Though Superior lost its sub-district final match to Sutton in five sets, they were highly ranked in the wildcard point standings. This enabled them to advance to the district C 2-3 final as the number three seed. They were paired with the number 14 seed Burwell. They dispatched Burwell in three sets, 25-13, 15-16 and 25-23, to advance to the state tournament in Lincoln beginning...
Go figure . . . The highest seeded team (Silver Lake) in the Class D2-6 Sub-district tournament played the lowest seeded team (Franklin). This was the 4th meeting of the schools this season and Silver Lake won the first three games. Go figure . . . Franklin pulled off the upset giving credence to the old wives tale: "It's tough to beat a team four times in a season." Then . . . in the championship game of the Sub-district our L-N Lady Raiders played Franklin knowing full well of Franklin's win o...
It's a narrow, dangerous road to the State Tournament for most all High School Sporting events. Volleyball, as much as any sport. The L-N Lady Raiders was one of just 16 Class D-2 High School across the state to qualify for the final step of the journey. Early last Saturday morning they traveled to Arapahoe to play Maywood-Hayes Center (MHC) for the District championship. The No. 3 seeded MHC won this District game with a score of 25-10, 25-14, 25-15. The victory will give them the number three...
Avery Brown, a Rock Hills High School volleyball player, was awarded an honorable mention from the Northern Plains League All-League Volleyball team. Brown, a senior, was the lone Grizzlies player named to the team....
The Rock Hills High School football team closed out their 2021 campaign with a 40-36 win over Linn at Linn last Thursday in a D11 cross-district game. The Grizzlies finished the season with a 2-6 record under first-year coach Sawyer Havenstein....
The Lawrence-Nelson volleyball team faced a rough road to qualify for the state tournament. A schedule weighted toward class D-1 and C-2 schools put the Raiders at a disadvantage in the wildcard point standings, They were faced with the prospect of having to win their sub-district bracket and district match to reach the state tournament at Lincoln. Lawrence-Nelson accomplished step one when they roared back, at Roseland, last Tuesday, from a two-set deficit to defeat Franklin, 17-25, 19-25, 25-17, 26-24 and 15-9, for the subdistrict D2-6 win....
The Bruning-Davenport-Shickley Eagles volleyball team qualified for the state volleyball tournament for the fifth consecutive year. The Eagles have competed in both Class D-2 and D-1. They won the D-2 championship in 2018 and 2019, finished third in D-1 in 2017 and fourth in 2020 in D-1. They breezed through their sub-district bracket played at Shickley. B-D-S was the number one seed. They downed Red Cloud in their opening D1-3 match last Monday. They topped Meridian to win the sub-district bracket last Tuesday and advance to the Class D1-8 dis...
Thirty-two Class D-2 Eight Man Football teams began their journey in the State Playoff system last Thursday. Among those 32 teams there were four games where the lower seeded team won. Unfortunately, for Lawrence- Nelson players and fans, the Raiders were not among those four. Their matchup with the number one rated team in Class D-2 (Sandhill-Thedford) ended the football season for the L-N Raiders as they suffered a loss to the tune of 20-60. With the game played in Dunning, Nebraska, the S-T team took little time to prove they are the top...
Timing is the key. They say it is hard to beat any team three times in a season and we’ve seen plenty of examples of that over the years. However, we get a whole new chance this year. The Class D-2 Sub-District tournaments began Monday evening and L-N played and defeated Wilcox-Hildreth 3-0. The 4-team tournament had Silver Lake as the No. 1 team and they played the No. 4 seed, Franklin. Well, Franklin defeated Silver Lake and the L-N Raiders get to play Franklin Tuesday night for the Sub-District championship. And . . . guess what . . . it i...
The L-N Lady Raiders finished the regular season of volleyball last week with a victory over Franklin. The 3-0 win gave the girls a won/loss record of 15 wins, 14 losses on the season. They prepare to play in the Sub-District tournament this week. The Franklin game, however, looked good. Different team members stepped up in different categories to complement each other and secure the win. For example: Attacking: Emma led the team with 11 Kills as she was good on 20-24 attempts; she was closely followed by Kara Menke with 21 of 23 good hits for...
The Rock Hills Cross Country team ran the regional meet at Centralia Lake on Saturday. Ninety young men lined up to run the course on a cool Saturday morning. Freshman, Trystyn Reynolds placed 39th running the course in 20:35. Freshman Kobi Bowers placed 44th finishing the race in 20:52. Senior Kit Wagner finished his senior season with a season best of 23:40 placing 78th. Even though the Rock Hills team did not individually qualify for state this year, the future is bright for the Rock Hills...
The three members of the Rock Hills High School cross country team attempted to qualify for the state meet Saturday over the 5K Centralia Lake course in Centralia. Trystyn Reynolds and Kobi Bowers, freshmen, joined senior Kit Wagner for the race. Reynolds placed 39th with his time of 20.35. Bowers took 44th place with his time of 20:52, Wagner posted his fastest time of the season, 23:40, for 78th place. There were 90 runners in the filed....
The Rock Hills High School football team closed out the regular season portion of their schedule with a 52-6 loss to St, John’s-Tipton at Beloit Friday. The game was called with 10:07 remaining in the third period because of the 45-point mercy rule. The loss left the Grizzlies with a 1-6 record for the season along with one cancellation. The Grizzlies travel to Linn, Thursday, for D11 cross-district play off game. Kick off time is set for 6 p.m....
The topsy-turvy season of the Rock Hills High School volleyball team concluded Saturday with their elimination from post-season play with their two-set loss, 9-25 and 13-25, to Thunder Ridge to Osborne Saturday at the first round sub-state qualifier. The Grizzlies split their final regular season matches at the Lincoln triangular last Tuesday. Rock Hills swaept wilson, 25-18 and 25-8, in two sets. Thye fell to Lincoln in three sets, 15-25, 18-25 and 20-25. The team ended 2021 their season with a 6-13 record. Danica Frost and Lauren Whelchel com...
The two runners who qualified for the state cross country meet from the Superior High School boys and girls cross country teams, Laci Kirchhoff and Hunter Mazzulla, competed in the 5K race over the Kearney Country Club course at Kearney Saturday. Mazzulla, a freshman, finished in 81st place in the 133 runner field with his time of 19:33.8. Kirchhoff, a junior, took 72nd place in the 125 runner field with her time of 23:40. It was her first season competing in cross country....
The Superior High School volleyball team took second place at the Southern Nebraska Conference tournament when they fell to Class C-1 Fairbury, 25-21, 25-23, 18-25 and 18-25, at Milford Thursday. The Wildcats opened sub-district play at Superior Monday. They swept Sandy Creek in three sets, 25-16, 25-19 and 25-8. They faced off against Sutton in the final round of sub-district play Tuesday, at Superior. Results of the match were unavailable at press time. Shayla Meyer topped the Wildcats kill...
The Superior High School football team lost a heartbreaker, 14-10, to Hastings St. Cecilia, at Duncan Field in Hastings, Friday. The loss brought the 2021 season to a close for the Wildcats. Superior finished the season with a 4-5 record. It was the final game for 11-man football as well for at least two years. Paul Heusinkvelt, head coach and athletic director, stated the program would switch to 8-man play because of the declining number of student athletes who wish to play the game. Hastings...
The Lawrence-Nelson football team exited the Class D-2 football playoffs with their 60-20 loss to the Sandhills-Thedford Knights at Dunning Thursday. The Raiders were unable to thwart the Sandhills-Thedford running game. The Knights ground out 291 yards on the ground. The Raiders relied on their aerial game to propel the offense. Despite gaining 171 yards through the air, the Raiders were able to score only one passing touchdown. Krayton Kucera was 15 of 28 with his passes for 171 yards and a touchdown. Conner Janda hauled in five passes for...
It’s crunch time for the Lawrence-Nelson High School volleyball team. Their only avenue to the state D-2 tournament is through the sub-district and district road. They received some possible help in the sub-district bracket. The Raiders disposed of Wilcox-Hildreth Monday at Roseland to advance to Tuesday’s sub-district final. Franklin handed Lawrence-Nelson a gift when they downed the number one seed Silver Lake Mustangs in four set. This set up a Franklin Flyer-Raider match for the opportunity to advance to the district final Saturday. The...
The newspaper has mentioned before what tough schedules the NSAA arranges for the L-N Raider Football Team year after year. 2021 was no difference and the Raiders had a little trouble during the year matching up with their hopes and expectations. The Raiders (and neighboring Blue Hill) are the only D-2 teams that faced two 8-0 teams this season. In addition L-N faced one 7-1 team and one 5-3 team. The Class D-2 State Playoff team is made up with 12 district winners and 20 'wildcard' team for a...
"Save the best until the last" We're not sure this applies in running a Cross Country race, but the South Central Red Raiders boys (Sandy Creek and Lawrence-Nelson) seemed to do that at the Class C-4 District Meet at Aurora last week. The girls did not run. The district meet had a total of 12 teams for the event and the Red Raiders finished in sixth place with a score of 99. Minden won the district with 41 points, Aurora had 42, Adams Central 69, St. Paul 87, Boone Central 98 and South Central 9...
Last week was another one of those busy weeks for the Lady Raider Volleyball Team. They played three games before two more over the weekend in the conference tournament. They defeated C-2 Blue Hill in five sets to start the week and added wins against High Plains and Franklin but dropping games to D-1 Deshler and BDS. An interesting week for Raiders players, coaches and fans. Following are game summaries: L-N – BLUE HILL: 19-25, 27-25, 21-25, 25-20, 15-13: No matter the sport or time any e...
