Sport

LAUREL – Hartington-Newcastle started strong in a Lewis and Clark Conference showdown with Laurel-Concord-Coleridge on Oct. 5 on the volleyball court, but once the Lady Bears caught them in the opening set,they went by and stayed in front on the way to a 25-14,25-9 and 25-13 sweep over the Lady Wildcats.

LAUREL – Hartington-Newcastle completed an improbable comeback this season to wind up on the verge of making the Class D1 State football playoffs with one game to go.

WAUSA – The Hartington-Newcastle Wildcats and Lady Wildcats are saving their collective bests, for last as they head into this week’s district contest.

WYNOT - Three quality teams got together for a triangular here in Wynot back on Oct. 5 with the Lady Blue Devils winning one match and dropping one match.

HARTINGTON – First half miscues and a stifling Battle Creek defense put the Cedar Catholic Trojans in a hole in the first half as Battle Creek came away with a 30-12 win here at the Hartington Community Recreation Complex Oct. 6.

CRAWFORD – The Nebraska Game and Parks Commission will consider fee increases to several nonresident big game permits when it meets Oct. 13 at Fort Robinson State Park.

WYNOT – The Cedar Catholic Lady Trojan volleyball team is gathering for a hopeful run into the conference, sub-district and district tournaments as the season winds down, strengthening their skills in a very competitive triangular Oct. 5 held in Wynot with the Lady Blue Devils and the Ponca Indians.

HARTINGTON - The Hartington-Newcastle FFA Chapter hosted District Dairy Judging Sept.

HARTINGTON – Riley and Dayton Sudbeck had their way with the Tri County Northeast defense here at the Hartington Community Athletic Complex Sept. 29 as they paced the Hartington-Newcastle Wildcats to a second consecutive win of the season, 48-8.

ATKINSON –After dropping a hard-fought 24-21 decision to Oakland-Craig on Sept. 22, the Cedar Catholic Trojans remained on the road here on Sept. 29 and added a win on the left side of the ledger with a resounding 51-21 win over the West Holt Huskies to improve to 4-2 on the football season.

Hartington-Newcastle cross country teams travel to Kearney

Going for two

HARTINGTON – The Hartington-Newcastle volleyball team dropped a couple of matches over the past week.

VERMILLION, S.D. – South Dakota is No. 15 in this week’s FCS Stats Perform Poll and No. 21 in the AFCA Coaches Poll released Monday morning.

BATTLE CREEK – As conference tournaments approach, Cedar Catholic split a pair of Mid-State Conference regular-season matches this past week with a hard-fought 3-2 match win over Battle Creek on the road Sept. 26 and another five-set match, this one at home to Guardian Angels Central Catholic on Sept. 28.

WAYNE – The Cedar Catholic Lady Trojans golf team has positioned themselves for a run at qualifying for the State tournament with a couple of top-seven team finishes in recent tournaments.

WYNOT – The Wynot Blue Devils picked up another win on Friday afternoon in their Homecoming football game against the Wausa Vikings.

Still unbeaten

WYNOT - Wynot swept past Homer in Lewis & Clark Conference volleyball action here Sept. 28, 2515, 25-16 and 25-21 in the regularseason best-of-five-sets match.

Going for the block