10 years ago Crowned queen at the Elwood Care Center this Valentine’s Day was Ellie Ewer and crowned was Robert Hugh Vinzant. A request from the German teacher, Mrs.

10 years ago Kyle Gubbels began his job duties as City of Cambridge lineman on Monday, February 14. The Cambridge Fire Department was called out to a grass fire southeast of Cambridge on Sunday afternoon after high winds came and escalated a fire burn that had been smoldering since Wednesday on Lockenour property.

10 years ago The Arapahoe wrestling team will be sending fi ve athletes to the state wrestling in Omaha. Two local talents entertained those that attended the Valentine’s Day luncheon at Prairie Pines in Arapahoe on Monday.

The Southwest boys fell to Wallace, 55-39, on Tuesday, Feb. 9, and to Axtell, 59-33, on Friday, Feb. 12. The final regular season game for the boy s will be against Maywood/Hayes Center on Friday, Feb. 19.

BERTRAND - The Arapahoe boys basketball team played defense well enough to win at Bertrand Friday. But they still needed to score enough to make that effort stand up and they were unable to do so as the Vikings took a slugfest 33-22.

ALMA - By dictating the game with offense, the Cambridge boys basketball team rolled to a 63-38 victory at Alma Friday. The Trojans shot 43 percent from the field and knocked down six threes as they built a comfortable lead at halftime, blew the game open in the third quarter, then coasted to the finish in a 25-point victory.

The Eagles (14-3) took on Gibbon (10-5) on Tuesday in a tight battle that resulted in a 3 point loss for the Eagles in overtime. The game was down to the wire for the entire 5 quarters. The Buffaloes eked out the lead at halftime 26 to 25. Both teams had a low scoring 3rd quarter with 9 points each. Southern Valley tied it up with a last minute layup by Brody Yant at the end of the 4th quarter. The Eagles were outscored in overtime by 3 for a 54-57 total. The Eagles were led by senior Clayton Berry with 24 points and 9 rebounds. Carter Bose added an additional 15 points, ripped down an impressive 17 total rebounds, and had 5 assists. Colton Burgeson added 7 points and 4 assists to the totals.

LINCOLN, Neb. (Feb.

Cambridge, Hi-Line and Southern Valley competed at the D-3 District meet hosted at Central Valley Saturday, Feb. 13. The top four finishers from each bracket punch their tickets to the State meet this week. Southern Valley is advancing four grapplers with Cambridge sending two and Hi-Line, one, to the State meet.

Arapahoe earned a runnerup finish at the Class D-1 Districts while sending six wrestlers to the State Tournament this week. Freshman Wayne Lee, 113, advanced in fourth place; senior Isaac Goshert, 120, was second; junior Tristian White, 145, third; junior Wyatt Jenkins, 160, first; senior Jordan Smith, 170, second; and junior Levi Kerner, 285, first.