The postseason begins for local varsity volleball teams next week with each of the five area teams paired in two subdistricts that should be played in relatively close proximity. The Subdistrict C2-11 Tournament includes Southwest and Southern Valley as well as North Platte.

CAMBRIDGE - The Cambridge and Hi-Line girls cross country teams finished district champion and runner-up at the District D-5 Cross Country Meet in Cambridge Thursday to qualify for Friday’s State Meet in Kearney. Southwest’s Cole Barnett finished 12th in the boys race to also qualify for the State Meet. Cambridge ran away with the title in the girls race, which featured 12 teams and 58 runners, as the Trojans filled their three scoring slots in the top eight places. Brenna Deterding led the Trojans with a district runner-up finish and Rachel Harris was third while Kori Koeppen was eighth. JoLie Farr finished 24th for the Trojans and Jensyn Weiss was 29th.

MCCOOK - The Southwest volleyball team had opportunities to take Tuesday’s RPAC Volleyball Championship Game, but two-time defending champion Maywood-Hayes Center proved too tough to close. Southwest held off a late rally from the Wolves in the opening set as Caylin Barnett terminated on the Roughriders final remaining set point chance for a 25-23 victory.

ELWOOD - The Hi-Line Bulls jumped all over visiting Cambridge in Friday night’s district and regular season finale. Then, after seeing most of a three-score lead disappear, the Bulls dropped the hammer again and rolled to a 70-24 victory. The win pushed Hi-Line to 7-1 this season and closed out a sweep of the district. Cambridge fell to 4-4.

SOUTHERN VALLEY The Southern Valley volleyball team battled through 10 sets in two matches last week, but came out on the short end of two fifth-set defeats to winning clubs. Tuesday, the Eagles rallied with an extra points win in the fourth to force a fifth at Alma (18-8) before falling in a 19-25, 25-18, 25-20, 26-28, 15-9 win for the Cardinals.

SOUTHERN VALLEY - In a game of contrasting styles, offense ran amok between Furnas County rivals Arapahoe and Southern Valley Thursday night. But after 111 combined points and nearly 900 yards, it was the Warriors that held the advantage in a 69-42 victory that pushed them to 4-3 this season.

CAMBRIDGE - The Cambridge football team picked up its fourth win of the season Friday afternoon, riding a first-half offensive onslaught to a 69-42 triumph over visting Bayard. The Trojans scored 55 points and had nearly 400 yards of offense in the first half as they rolled to a 55-14 lead at the break, then coasted to the finish.

BARTLEY - For the bulk of the game on a cool Friday night in Bartley, the visting Brady Eagles did about everything necessary to keep the Southwest football team at bay. The Eagles tackled well in space and used their speed for big plays on the ground and through the air.

by Coach Caleb Wall We had a nice and relaxed meet to end our regular season with. In the girls' race, Whitney Dickau led us on this Minden Course. She was joined by teammates Natalie Malcom, Payton Muegerl, Dallas Weitzel, Whitney Page, and Genesee Knackstedt in placing in the top 15. This put us in second place as a team behind Elm Creek. We had never run here before, and so we don't have times to compare to from last year, but looking at our times from this year, the majority of kids ran their fastest times of the year here.

OVERTON - The Hi-Line volleyball team opened FKC Tournament play Monday with a sweep of Wilcox-Hildreth Monday before falling in the quarterfinals to one of the top teams in the State. The Bulls were efficient offensively in a 25-18, 25-17 victory over the Falcons, but found scoring tough to come by in a 25-7, 25-6 defeat to No.