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Cougars rack up over 400 yards of offense in victory At the end of the third quarter of last Friday night’s semifinal game of the NSAA Class D-2 State Football Playoffs, “V-I-C-T-O-R-Y” chants could be heard from the Central Valley student section. At that moment, Cougar fans realized something that the players on the field and the coaches on the sideline knew before the bus ever pulled into Humphrey.

For the first time in program history, next week, the Central Valley Cougars will play for a state football championship. Last Friday night, the 11-1 Cougars beat Archangels Catholic 50-8 in Humphrey to secure a spot in the Class D-2 championship game at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln.

CENTRAL VALLEY has twelve bowlers competing during the school’s eighth year of Unified Bowling. Only four of those bowlers are returning lettermen. Members include Mattie Schumacher, Katie Middendorf, Aubry Hansen, Brooklyn Perrott, Annaka Wood, Cami Redinger, Ethan Lobner, Tenley Perrott, Bentleigh Dugan, Trasa Klein, and Payton Kniss.

Last Thursday morning at Pinnacle Bank Arena in Lincoln, Central Valley (28-6) earned their first state volleyball tournament victory in program history when the Cougars swept the fifth-seeded Amherst Broncos (23-10) to advance to the semifinal round.

Central Valley bests Overton in consolation finals at state Some new hardware will now be prominently featured at Central Valley High School, as the Cougars took home a third-place finish in the Class D-2 State Volleyball Tournament last Saturday morning, defeating the defending state champions, Overton, 3-1, at Lincoln North Star High School. “I think they really wanted to win today,” Coach Diane Kasselder said of her team.

Thursday’s win over Amherst vaulted the Central Valley Cougars in the semifinal round of the Class D2 State Volleyball Tournament, where undefeated, top-seeded Leyton (35-0) was waiting for them. Despite only five points separating the two teams throughout the first two sets, the Warriors eked out wins on both occasions, 2522 and 26-24.

For the third time in four years, the Central Valley Cougars are headed to the semifinals of the NSAA State Football Playoffs. The Cougars, who now sport a 10-1 record, punched their ticket to the round of four last Friday night when they rolled over Wynot 44-6 in a soggy slugfest at Memorial Field in Wolbach.