After starting the season with four consecutive wins and outscoring their opponents 48-7, the Central City/ Centura Kernels suffered their first loss of the year, falling 13-2 to Hastings last Thursday in Cairo.

Zimmerman, Suntych both earn hardware in pole vault to lead Centura at Sutton Invite Some members of the Centura boys’ track team may have needed a minute or two to knock off the rust last Tuesday, but during their first outing of the 2024 season, it also looked as though some members of the team...

It was a clean sweep for the St. Paul girls in the relay races at last Thursday’s Arcadia/Loup City Rebel Invite. Those three wins, in addition to eleven individual medals and three golds, vaulted the Wildcats to a second-place overall finish in the team standings.

The Merrick County Invite provides high school athletes from across the area a chance to get prepared for the upcoming season in a competitive setting, and last Thursday, when the Elba Bluejays traveled to Central City, they came to compete.

Struggles from inside the batter’s box ended in a pair of losses for St. Paul/Palmer last week. The Cats suffered a pair of ten-run rule losses to Adams Central and Seward to bring their early-season record to 1- 3.

The Central Valley boys’ 4x100-meter relay team was able to put an exclamation point on a successful season opener on the track last week when the Cougars picked up a gold medal in the quarter-mile race.

The Elba Bluejays jumped into a new season last Thursday, and, unlike most outings during the spring, weather was not a factor.

St. Paul/Palmer tops Maxwell/St.

The LouPlatte Conference recently released its honors list for the 2023-2024 basketball seasons, with multiple area athletes receiving accolades. In girls’ basketball, St.

If the Central Valley Cougars were supposed to show signs of needing to shake off the rust last week in their first outing of the 2024 track season, no one told them.