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CAMBRIDGE - The Cambridge- Arapahoe Gladiators junior legion baseball team swept a doubleheader from Hershland Sunday, ending a four-game skid while improving to 5-8 this season. In the opener, the Gladiators scored five in the first and three more in the second to build an 8-1 lead before holding off the Trojans for a 10-6 victory.

ELWOOD - The Hi-Line legion baseball team bludgeoned visiting Overton four times over the weekend, scoring 62 runs against the Bandits over a pair of games Friday and two more Sunday. The Bulls took victories of 13-5 and 17-6 on Friday and 16-1 and 16-10 on Sunday.

Furnas County 4-H Shoot was held on April 22nd, 2023 at the Arapahoe Izaak Walton facility. Senior Trap participants -31 Junior Trap participants- 20 .22 Rifle participants-16 Archery participants-26 BB Gun participants-20 53rd Annual Cornhusker Trapshoot, Doniphan-Dierks Sayer received a trophy after tying for 1st place in the 18 yard HC division representing Furnas County 4-H.

Don Sackett presents Macy Jones with her certificate for the Central Nebraska Senior Golf Association $1000 Scholarship. Jones attended Cambridge Public Schools and qualifi ed for State Golf all four years of high school, placing 7th or 8th in District V competition three times. She will attend the University of Nebraska at Kearney in Radiography, specializing in Sonography.

Baseball and softball are in full swing for area teams.

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The 2023 CSO All-Star games took place on Friday, May 26th. On the girls’ side, the West team won in overtime by two points. The west girls got an early lead, almost doubling the east girls’ score in the first quarter. However, the east girls slowly chipped away at that daunting lead and took a small lead in the third quarter. By the end of the fourth quarter, however, the game was tied. Coaches Lowther and McNair for the west and Schuett and Gilson for the east prepared their teams for overtime. The girls fought back and forth, but when the clock ran down, the West won 70 to 68.

in the Class D standings and Arapahoe was 24th while Southwest was 41st behind a seventh-place medal from Hunter Cunningham in the long jump. In girls competitions, Southern Valley’s Ann Bose tied for fifth in a highlycompetitive high jump event, clearing 5-2 without a miss, but falling short of 5-4, which would have pushed her into a tie for second.

The 2023 Cambridge School Organization (CSO) All Star Basketball Game will take place in Cambridge on 5/26/23. The girls game will begin at 6pm and the boys will follow at 7:45 pm. This is the 38th annual addition of the event. These contests will feature boy and girl athletes from Class B, C, and D schools in Southwest Nebraska against each other in an East-West divisional game. The girls’ west team consists of Tayden Kirchner, Kiley Hejtmanek, Tonja Heirigs, Tahlia Steinbeck, Bryn McNair, Olivia Hansen, Karlie Finley, Shawna Wilkinson, Cali Cox, and Ashlin Broz. The girls’ east team consists of Jacey Kent, Jersie Hermanson, Ellarey Harm, Lani Meier, Zoey Evans, Kynlee Strauser, Megan Dyer, Addison Neal, Caylin Barnett, and Emerson Swanson. The boys’ west team consists of Jeron Gager, Harmon Johnsen, Zarek Branch, Andrew Brosius, Isiah Fox, Hayden Kramer, Trey Robertson, Evan Humphrey, Adam Dugger, and KAde Anderson. The boys’ east team consists of Will Taylor, Wes Trompke, Jackson Hinrichs, Carter Erickson, Trent Watkins, Wes Geiken, Daud Daud, Peyton Herrick, Hunter Cunningham, and Dru Truax.