ALMA - The Southern Valley boys golf team came out on top of a five-team battle for first at the Alma Invite Monday. The Eagles shot a 359 to finish first, beating out Franklin, which shot a 360, Elm Creek and Overton, which each finished with scored of 362, and Alma, which finished with a 370.

BERTRAND - The Hi-Line track and field team hit the road for Bertrand on Monday. The weather warmed up Monday for the Bertrand Invite and the scoring rose with the temperatures for the girls as they scored 30 points to finish ninth in the team race.

The members of the Southern Valley Junior High Track Teams participated in their first junior high track meet ever. Alma hosted the 12 team invitational on Tuesday, April 13. The girls team won the meet with 76 points. The boys finished ninth with 13 points.

Local track and golf athletes saw their seasons paused at both the end of last week and the beginning of this week due to a cold snap and two separate episodes of winter weather that brought quickly-melting snow to the area.

Despite some weather closures Friday, 16 teams of high school artists competed in the annul McCook Community College paint-in competition at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center. A team from Maywood received first place in Friday’s paint-in competition.

ARAPAHOE - The Southern Valley golf team finished runner-up and five local individuals finished in the top 15 at the Arapahoe Golf invite Tuesday.

CAMBRIDGE - On a sunsplashed day in Cambridge, a number of area teams competed in the Don Stine Invite Saturday. The Cambridge girls finished runner-up, scoring more than 160 points, but couldn’t keep pace with champion Chase County, who dominated the medals and scored 224.

The Hi-Line boys finished fourth and the girls took 16th at the South Loup Invite last Friday. The Bulls scored 33 points to tie Sandhills Valley for fourth place behind Burwell, the team champion, Mullen and South Loup.

JOHNSON LAKE - The Southern Valley golf team took fifth while the Hi-Line golf team finished eighth at its home golf invite last Tuesday, firing a team score of 428, which was just two strokes back of Axtell for seventh and four strokes better than Pleasanton for ninth.

CAMBRIDGE - Four area golf teams opened their season at the Cambridge Invite last Wednesday at Cross Creek Golf Links. Southern Valley led the way with a fifth place finish and a score of 389 while Cambridge was eighth with a 423.