LINCOLN - The Southern Valley girls basketball team has been a fast-starter all season long. Entering the Class D1 State Tournament, the Eagles had not trailed after a quarter all year, not even in their lone defeat to Gothenburg.

LINCOLN - For three quarters, the Southern Valley girls basketball team had drawn the high-octane, scoring machine of Guardian Angels Central Catholic into the depths of a rock fight. After surrendering the lead, the Eagles made the biggest plays down the stretch and rode their defense to a 34-29 victory that vaulted them into the State Finals.

LINCOLN - For the second-straight day and for the third game in 38 hours, the Southern Valley girls basketball team kept an explosive offensive team in check. Squaring off with Pender, the defending Class C2 champion, in the Class D1 State Title Game Saturday morning, the Eagles held the top-seeded Pendragons 22 points under their scoring average.

MAYWOOD - Any suspense in the District D2-2 Final quickly dissipated Saturday as Maywood-Hayes Center held visiting Potter-Dix scoreless over the first 12 minutes of the game, built a 27-0 lead and rolled to a 60-21 victory, clinching a berth at the State Tournament.

HAYES CENTER - In the Subdistrict D2-8 finals Thursday, the Maywood-Hayes Center boys basketball team overwhelmed Medicinr Valley in the opening half and coasted to a 73-50 victory to advance to the district finals.

SOUTHERN VALLEY - At its district final Friday, the Southern Valley girls basketball team did what it’s successfully done all season. The Eagles dealt a knockdown blow in the opening quarter, then maintained that early lead to the finish of a 54-33 district championship victory over Amherst, clinching the Eagles’ second-straight berth at the State Tournament.

With resounding victories in their district final contests Friday and Saturday, the Southern Valley girls basketball and Maywood-Hayes Center boys basketball teams clinched berths at the State Tournament. Southern Valley defeated Amherst 54-33 Friday night before the Wolves rolled past Potter-Dix 60-21 on Saturday.

Medicine Valley junior Kevin Bantam broke three McCook school records at the 2023 NSAA State Swim Meet in Lincoln Friday. Medicine Valley co-ops with McCook for swimming and diving.

KEARNEY - For the second-straight year, the Maywood-Hayes Center girls basketball team battled Elgin Public/Pope John in a backand-forth battle for a trip to the State Tournament. And for the secondstraight year, the Wolfpack got the better of the Wolves with a 51-44 district final victory that propelled EPPJ to the State Tournament.

LITCHFIELD - After a 5432 setback in Thursday’s Subdistrict final at Dundy County-Stratton, the Cambridge boys basketball team earned itself a trip to a district final Saturday via wild card. But against another of the top teams in Class D1, the Trojans’ offense was suffocated by an active zone defense as Ansley-Litchfield rolled away to a 46-23 win to clinch a State Tournament berth.