Hi-Line finished in 13th of 19 teams at the South Loup Invite. Plainview won the invite with 184 points. Mullen, 111, and Ansley-Litchfield, 105, followed in second and third, respectively. Other team in the respective finishes were Sutherland, 99; Twin Loup, 87; Palmer, 83; Axtell, 58; Sandhills-Thedford, 53; South Loup, 51; Brady, 46; Elm Creek and North Platte St. Patrick’s, 45 each; HiLine, 44; Sumner-EddyvilleMiller, 42; Hershey, 38; Sandhills Valley, 26; Overton, 35; Broken Bow JV, 21; and Wilcox-Hildreth, o.

Southwest earned a conference championship at the RPAC tournament on Friday, Jan. 22.

CAMBRIDGE - With a snow storm impeding progress of the week-long RPAC Basketball Tournament, the quarterfinal rounds were each pushed back a day to Tuesday and Wednesday. The Cambridge girls punched their ticket through to the semifinals Tuesday night with a 41-24 upset over second-seeded Medicine Valley.

Arapahoe competed at the Shelton Wrestling Invite on Saturday, Jan. 16. The team finished second at the invite behind Red Cloud-Blue Hill. Arapahoe earned 131 points, only one point behind Red Cloud-Blue Hill. South Loup was the third place team with 105 points.

Thursday, January 21: 4:00 p.m.-Basketball @ Medicine Valley. Friday, January 22 12:30 p.m.-Wrestling @ South Loup @ Callaway; 4:3o p.m.-Basketball @ Loomis.

ARAPAHOE - After interviewing two different interim superintendent candidates at a special meeting Monday, the Arapahoe Board of Education offered a one-year contract to Brian Gegg, who most recently served as the superintendent at Shelton Public Schools from 2016 until last June.

On Thursday, January 14 at approximately 10:00 p.m., the Bartley fire department was paged to Road 710 six miles south of Bartley. A power line from a shop building had broken in the wind, arc’d and started corn stubble and pasture ground on fire. Combined with high winds of over 5o mph, mutual aid was called in from Indianola, Cambridge, Red Willow Western, Wilsonville, Beaver City and Beaver Valley.