BLOOMFIELD  — The Hartington Wildcats found their offense Friday.

The Cats put three athletes into double figures to defeat Bloomfield 54-40.

Hartington improves to 3-7 on the year with the win.

Riley Noecker, Neil Kramer and Nathan McPhillips all hit for double figures for Hartington. Noecker and Kramer were seeing their first action of the season after transferring from Cedar Catholic last Fall.

Hartington earned a 10-9 first-quarter advantage over the Bees in the first frame.

HARTINGTON — Top-rated Cedar Catholic was put to the test — big time.

The Trojans dispatched state-rated Creighton 67-58 on Tuesday, then went down to the wire before defeating Class C1’s state-rated Wayne in a 58-56 thriller here Friday, before winding up the week with a contest against always tough West Point CC.

The schedule doesn’t get any easier for Cedar next week as the Trojans hit the road Monday to take on previously rated Laurel-Concord on Monday and battle state-rated Ponca Tuesday.

Cedar took control of the game early against Wayne, racing out to a 6-0 lead before the Blue Devils could get their offense going.

Wayne relied on the long ball as the Devils’ Jacob Zeiss connected on back-to-back three-pointers to knot the score at 6-6 with 4:15 left in the opening frame.

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MADISON — Cedar Catholic’s Chad Koch earned his second straight gold medal during action here Friday.

Madison earned the team title and five individual championships to outscore runner-up Stanton by more than 115 points.

Koch defeated Stanton’s Bryant Borgmann in a 5-2 decision to earn the gold medal.

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PIERCE — The Cedar Catholic Lady Trojans put together a complete game effort here Friday to breeze to a 49-35 MidStates Conference win over Pierce.

Cedar Catholic Coach Terry Kathol was pleased with his team’s effort.

“We really put a complete game together,” Kathol said. “Offensively we executed fairly well against a 1-3-1 which we do not see often. This is a game that should give the girls a lot of confidence.”

PIERCE — The streak is finally over.

The Cedar Catholic Trojans have not beaten Pierce in a very long time. That streak ended when Cedar handed the Blue Jays a 62-41 setback here to improve to 8-0 on the year.

It looked as though Pierce still had Cedar’s number early in Friday’s MidState Conference match-up, racing out to a  10-4 early lead. Cedar rallied back in the frame, thanks to the hot hand of Kevin Wintz, who put in Cedar’s next seven points to single-handedly cut the deficit to 13-11 with 2:25 left in the first frame.

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HARTINGON — Officials at the four schools involved in the Classic basketball tournament agreed to cancel this year’s event, rather than try to reschedule it.

The tournament was originally scheduled to tip off on Thursday, but this week’s storm forced the event to be rescheduled to Friday and Saturday.

Since school was again cancelled on Friday, school officials decided to skip this year’s tournament.

HARTINGTON  —  The final high school football ratings of 2009 confirm what Cedar Catholic fans have known all along — the Trojans are one of the best football teams in the state.

Cedar Catholic’s runner-up finish in the C2 state semifinal game earned the Trojans a second-place rating in the final polls of the 2009 season. The Trojans started the season rated fourth in the state in most polls.

Cedar’s  10-3 final record marks the third time in school history the Trojans have earned 10 wins. Cedar went 10-3 in 2001 when the team finished as the State runner-up to Lawrence-Nelson. The Trojans put together a 10-2 season in 2007, falling 7-0 in the semifinals to defending state champion Wakefield.

The state’s football experts had trouble figuring out Wynot High School.

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LINCOLN — Tom Osborne would have been proud.

The Nebraska Cornhuskers’ legendary coach will forever be known as the man that went for the win and lost the 1983 National Championship.

Cedar Catholic Coach Chad Cattau took a play out of Coach Osborne’s playbook Tuesday.

Cedar had just scored an overtime touchdown to pull within one point of undefeated Ponca, 14-13. Instead of lining up for the extra point kick, Cattau went for two, and put the game into All Stater Chad Koch’s hands.

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WYNOT  —  Wynot High School dominated the D2-4 All District post-season team.

Eight slots on the D2-4 All District First Team were filled by Wynot High School football players.

A total of 16 different positions on the First, Second or Honorable Mention teams were filled by Wynot athletes.

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HARTINGTON — The Cedar Catholic Trojan football team will host Cambridge at 3 p.m. today at Russ Hochstein Field in the Western Bracket state C2 semifinal game.

The winner of the contest will advance to the state championship game next Tuesday at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln. The West Bracket winner will face either Ponca or David City Aquinas for the state title.

HARTINGTON — Cedar Catholic advanced into the Class C2 state semifinals for the second time in three years and the third time in school history with an easy 48-0 quarterfinal win over Creighton here Tuesday.
Cedar will now host Cambridge in next week’s West Bracket State Semifinal game.
Cambridge defeated Sutherland 35-6 in their quarterfinal contest.
The Trojans scored every time they touched the ball in the first half.
Chad Koch did most of the damage, crossing the goal line four times. Koch finished the night with a game-high 263 yards on just 23 carries. As a team Cedar finished the game with 415 rushing yards and 487 yards of total offense, while limiting Creighton to just 106 total yards of offense.