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                  Valentine – Weather conditions were perfect for the Valentine Invite held Thursday, May 14th! It was another tight race at the top of the leaderboard, giving us a

      Girls 100M Dash 1st –  Ali Korth (Battle Creek) – 12.23 State Qualifier 2nd – Avery Beckenhauer (Battle Creek) – 12.71 State Qualifier 3rd – Calla Mithcell (West Holt) – 12.76 4th – Mia

            Atkinson – The West Holt Golf Invite took place on Tuesday, May 12th and featured 9 teams – Ainsworth, Boyd County, Creighton, Niobrara/Verdigre, North Central, O’Neill, Stuart, Summerland, & West Holt!

          Bassett – The Highway 20 Boys Golf Invitational took place Monday, May 11th from the Bassett Country Club, and it was a beautiful spring day for golf! Keian Fischer (North Central) was

      Girls 100M Dash 1st – Gracyn Painter (Ainsworth) – 12.57 State Qualifier 2nd – Miley Pinkelman (Bloomfield) – 12.70 State Qualifier 3rd – Claire Meyer (Creighton) – 12.73 4th – Makinna Lovell (Bloomfield) –

      Valentine – It was a beautiful day for the Greg Gass Invitational in Valentine, Nebraska which led to great times & marks for our area tracksters!   Girls 100M Dash 1st – Mia Sherbeyn

      Girls 100M Dash 1st – Evy Kluever (Columbus Scotus) – 13.06 2nd – Vicky Recendes Conchas (Madison) – 13.07 3rd – Calla Mitchell (West Holt) – 13.16   Boys 100M Dash 1st – Hunter

      Girls 100M Dash 1st – Claire Meyer (Creighton) – 13.13 SB 2nd – Abbey Backer (Randolph) – 13.20 3rd – Olivia Taylor (Ponca) – 13.50 5th – Alexandra Herfel (Neligh-Oakdale) – 14.25   Boys

      Girls 100M Dash 1st – Jamaya Koehlmoos (Norfolk Catholic) – 12.77 2nd – Jada Ruckman (Ralston) – 13.14 3rd – Emma Christensen (Norfolk Catholic) – 13.21 5th – Tenzlie Sorensen (O’Neill) – 13.33  

                  Wayne – The Wayne Invitational took place from the Wayne Country Club on Thursday, May 7th and, in what was nearly a perfect day for golf, we saw

      Girls 100M Dash 1st – Miley Pinkelman (Bloomfield) – 13.44 2nd – Makinna Lovell (Bloomfield) – 13.46 3rd – Paisley Hoffman (North Central) – 13.90 4th – Miranda Loseke (Bloomfield) – 13.96 5th –

  Niobrara – The Niobrara/Verdigre Invite took place on Wednesday, May 6th, 2026 from the Niobrara Valley Golf Course in Niobrara, Nebraska! Mason Nipp of Wausa was your individual champion, and Wausa was also the team champion

      Girls 200M Dash 1st – Braylee Bordewyk (Corsica-Stickney) – 26.41 2nd – Breckynn Pistulka (Burke) – 26.47 3rd – BreAna Aske (Jones County) – 26.93 9th – Paityn Sheffield (Stuart) – 29.93   Girls

  Atkinson – On a very temperate day, the GNAC Conference Golf Championship was held from the Atkinson/Stuart Country Club! It was a tight team race with only 20 strokes difference between 1st and 5th place!  

  Wayne – It was a great day for the Mid State Conference Golf Meet from the Wayne Country Club, and it saw some low scores both individually and for the teams competing!     Individual Results

              Girls 100M Dash 1st – Kiya Tornez (Tri County NE) – 12.98 2nd – Makinna Lovell (Bloomfield) – 13.25 3rd – Miley Pinkelman (Bloomfield) – 13.34 4th – Claire Meyer

  Field Events   Girls Shot Put 1st – Bailey Gerths (GACC) – 41’ 1” 2nd – Mariah Kallhoff (O’Neill) – 39’ 4.5” 3rd – Seanna Pinkelman (Crofton) – 38’ 2”   Girls Discus 1st – Kylie

Field Events   Girls Shot Put 1st – Avery Nemetz (West Holt) – 38’ 11” 2nd – Taylen Nilson (Summerland) – 36’ 1.5” 3rd – Taytum Clouse (West Holt) – 34’ 9” 4th – Monica Chavez (West

          Field Events   Girls Shot Put 1st – Karlene Kepler (North Central) – 43’ 2” 2nd – Mya Lewis (North Central) – 35’ 3.25” 3rd – Willa Flynn (Ainsworth) – 35’ 1”

        Girls Basketball NSAA Class C2 State Basketball Semifinals – Bob Devaney Sports Center #1 Pender defeats #4 Yutan 46-36 #2 Elkhorn Valley defeats #6 GACC, 48-40   NSAA Class D1 State Basketball Semifinals

O’Neill – Make sure to follow all the live results from the final day of the 2025 Boy’s Nebraska State Wrestling Tournament here! KBRX will be covering all area wrestlers that have qualified for the boy’s state

        Girls Basketball Elkhorn Valley 60, Boyd County 11 Boys Basketball Elkhorn Valley 49, Boyd County 47 Wrestling Mid-State Conference Tournament 106 Guaranteed Places 1st Place – Ashton Nelson of Crofton/Bloomfield 2nd Place –

        Girls Basketball St. Mary’s 55, Summerland 31 Stuart 40, Osmond 35 West Holt 54, North Central 20 Humphrey-Lindsay 57, Neligh-Oakdale 13 Stanton 46, Plainview 24 O’Neill 62, Ainsworth 20 Boys Basketball O’Neill 58,

Wrestling Pleasanton Invite 106 Guaranteed Places 1st Place – Kamden Robinson of Elm Creek 2nd Place – Kason Palser of Ravenna 3rd Place – Mason Hemmingsen of Fullerton 4th Place – Dalton Dugan of Central Valley 1st

        Girls Basketball Cozad 45, Ainsworth 36 CWC 44, Central Valley 28 EPPJ 61, Boyd County 20 Elkhorn Valley 63, Plainview 17 Niobrara-Verdigre 42, Creighton 28 North Central 43, Gregory SD 29 O’Neill 48,

        Girls Basketball Valentine 54, Ainsworth 19 Creighton 54, Randolph 4 Elkhorn Valley 70, EPPJ 36 Niobrara-Verdigre 43, Hartington-Newcastle 32 St. Mary’s 71, Neligh-Oakdale 30 Stuart 50, Summerland 40 West Holt 54, CWC 20

        Girls Basketball Elgin Public/Pope John 57, Wausa 16 Hartington-Newcastle 55, Creighton 27 Niobrara/Verdigre 56, Bloomfield 47 Sandhills/Thedford 36, North Central 35 Summerland 59, Boyd County 34 West Holt 41, Burwell 18 Boys Basketball

        Girls Basketball Creighton 36, Neligh-Oakdale 35 Elgin Public/Pope John 41, Plainview 25 Niobrara/Verdigre 36, Summerland 33 Stuart 53, Twin Loup 29 Cedar Catholic 52, O’Neill 38 Anselmo-Merna 62, Ainsworth 26 Boys Basketball Anselmo-Merna

On Friday on a hot and windy day in Kearney, it was Ainsworth Senior Katherine Kerrigan who came out on top in the Girls Class D State Cross Country Meet. Kerrigan claimed first in a time of

        Softball O’Neill 7, Boone Central 2 Volleyball St. Mary’s def. CWC, 25-11, 25-15, 25-13 (3-0) Plainview def. Creighton, 25-19, 25-17, 25-19 (3-0) Niobrara Double Triangular Stuart def. Niobrara/Verdigre, 25-18, 25-20 (2-0) Summerland def.