It was a picture perfect night for Football Friday in Arapahoe as the Warriors welcomed Alma to town. A matchup that featured stark contrasts on offense as Arapahoe runs the ball and Alma likes to air it out. In this battle, it was the ground attack that prevailed as the Warriors won by a final score of 58-42.

MCCOOK - While the two teams took particularly different paths to the match, the Cambridge and Southwest volleyball teams met in the finals of the McCook Invite Saturday. Much like their first meeting this season, which was also for a tournament title at Cambridge, the Trojans had the answers for any Roughriders challenge as Cambridge swept its way to the title, improving to 13-1. Southwest picked up three-set victories over Alliance and McCook to get to the championship game.

themselves and run away as Huffman scored again for the Wildcats this time from nine yards out to push the lead to 36-16 with 2:40 to go in the period. Southern Valley was able to answer as Wilson ran it in from 12 yards to make it 36-24 with 1:08 in the third quarter.

bit quicker and was able to sustain a high level of play for longer stretches. “Our mistakes did linger and that's something that I always tell the girls-- if we make a mistake we need to make it a goal to bounce back and get the next 2 points,” Carpenter said.

WAUNETA - Southwest swept its way past a triangular at Sutherland Thursday and made quick work of Wauneta-Palisade Tuesday as the Roughriders improved to 8-2. The Roughriders met little resistance in Thursday’s triangular, sweeping Southern Valley 25–13, 25-18 before taking down Sutherland 25-12, 25-15.

RAVENNA - What was anticipated to be a shootout between Cambridge and Ravenna and their high-scoring offenses slugged along scoreless through most of the first half Friday. It took a fluky-looking play to open the lid as Ravenna struck on a 18-yard touchdown pass where the receiver was being face-guarded but caught the ball from behind the defender’s back. That acrobatic catch was the jolt Ravenna needed as the Bluejays scored four times in the final six minutes of the first half to take a 28-6 lead at the break.

by Coach Caleb Wall The Broken Bow meet was our first cool meet of the year when we competed on a Saturday morning in Broken Bow. Our kids typically run some of their fastest times of the year on this course and we were pleased with their efforts again this year. Senior Whitney Dickau brought home a 19th place finish which is the first time that we have cracked the top 20 at this meet since becoming Hi-Line. Whitney’s 19th place effort in 22:42 is the fastest 5K she has run in HS CC.

WILCOX - The Southwest team battled to the end but came up just short in a 3228 loss at Wilcox-Hildreth Thursday. The Roughriders played from behind throughout the contest and trailed 14-0 to the fourth quarter.

ARAPAHOE - Off to a solid 2-0 start to the season, the Arapahoe football team returned home Friday to some rowdy guests. Lawrence-Nelson rolled up more than 500 yards of offense and averaged nearly 11 yards per play in claiming a 50-0 lead at halftime before rolling away to a 68-14 victory over the Warriors, dropping them to 2-1 this season.

LOOMIS - The Hi-Line volleyball team went 2-1 at the Loomis Tournament Saturday and won three of five matches on the week to improve to 5-4 on the season. Thursday, the Bulls split a triangular with Cozad and Bertrand, falling to the Haymakers in two while taking down the Vikings in three. Saturday, the Bulls earned another three-set victory against Bertrand while also sweeping Maxwell, but fallingin straight sets to Wallace.