Amherst Invite 2023 Results for Cambridge 106 - Micah Gerlach (15-2) placed 2nd and scored 20.0 team points; Quarterfinal Micah Gerlach (Cambridge) 15-2 won by fall over Donny Lawrence (Ansley Litchfield) 10-8 (Fall 1:09); Semifinal Micah Gerlach (Cambridge) 15-2 won by fall over Josiah Coleman...

Champ. Round 1 - Prestin Horwart (Southern Valley) 10-7 won by fall over Brett Mellies (Aurora ) 3-5 (Fall 1:06); Quarterfinal - Corbin Hoefer (Neligh-Oakdale) 16-5 won by major decision over Prestin Horwart (Southern Valley) 10-7 (MD 14-6); Cons.

MAYWOOD - Battling through a tough stretch of contests, the Hi-Line girls basketball team dropped a pair fo road games last weekend to Sumner-Eddyville-Miller, 47-27, and Maywood-Hayes Center, 65-26. Hi-Line fell to 3-5 on the season.

BENKELMAN - The Arapahoe wrestling team finished third at the 12-team Duundy County-Stratton Invite Friday, scoring 174 points. Rafe Hill led the Warriors with a first-place finish at 152 pounds while Grayson Koller (132) and Jacen Smith (285) each finished runner-up.

MAYWOOD - The Hi-Line boys basketball team was unable to erase a large deficit Thursday, then dropped another contest Saturday as it fell in both games last week to move to 3-5 this season.

BERTRAND - With a pair of clutch performances down the stretch, the Southern Valley boys basketball team earned its third- and fourthstraight victories last week, pushing past .500 for the first time this season at 5-4.

Rickie Lee Stagemeyer, age 66, a lifelong resident of Arapahoe, Nebraska passed away on Monday, January 2, 2023 at his home. He was born in Oxford, Nebraska on May 2, 1956 to Merle and Verna (Rader) Stagemeyer.

Richard “Dick” Wright passed away on January 2, 2023 at Eben Ezer Lutheran Care Center. He was 87 years old.

Theone LuRae (Maaske) Winkler was born on April 21, 1929, in Phelps County, Nebraska, the youngest of two children born to Alton and Alma (Helms) Maaske. She was baptized in infancy at St Paul’s Lutheran Church in Bertrand. She passed away on Sunday, December 18th, 2022 in Omaha, Nebraska.

Vincent “Vince” W. Burke passed away on December 31, 2022, in Omaha, Nebraska.