LINCOLN — The Crete High boys’ basketball team has been on a roller coaster ride during the month of February, and Monday’s B-4 district semifinal trip with Seward at Lincoln Southwest was no different.
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UTICA — Thirty-nine points was just enough to garner the Friend girls basketball team a spot in the 2012 Class D-1 state tournament that begins tomorrow in Lincoln.
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SEWARD — One step away from a district championship berth, the Wilber-Clatonia boys roundball squad went the way of top-ranked Milford and was upset by Fairbury 46-44 in overtime during the C1-2 subdistrict finals Thursday night at Seward.
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WILBER — The Pawnee City Indians were just too rough while on the warpath last Tuesday and Thursday as they eliminated the Friend and Exeter-Milligan boys teams from the D1-1 subdistrict tournament at Wilber.
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FAIRBURY — Flying away with a pair of victories, the Hampton Hawks played spoiler to Dorchester and Meridian last week in the D2-2 subdistrict tournament at Fairbury.
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The Doane baseball team won all five of its games in the past week to improve to 8-4 on the season. The Tigers routed Manhattan Christian (Kan.) 24-8 on the road Wednesday. Then in Joplin, Mo., Doane shut out Viterbo (Wis.) 8-0 and Ozark Christian 16-0 Sa...
The Doane women’s basketball season came to an end Wednesday following the Tigers’ 78-44 loss to NAIA Division II eighth-ranked Northwestern in a quarterfinal-round game of the Great Plains Athletic Conference Tournament in Orange City, Iowa.
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LINCOLN — After facing Class B No. 4 Waverly, top-ranked Seward on the road, then beating fifth-ranked Beatrice only to face No. 1 Seward again, all in an 11-day span, one could hardly fault the Crete High girls’ basketball team for encountering a f...
Crete Volunteer Fire and rescue Department held its annual Dinner Dance and Awards banquet on Jan. 28 at Doane College.
Josh Page gave the invocation to start the banquet, remembering retired member Norm Savory and active member Alvin “Rosey” Rozdalo...
In press release, the Nebraska Department of Roads stated the deck repair of the railroad overpass bridge on Hwy. 103 North, Milepost 55.79, is scheduled to take place Wednesday.
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Doane College Professor Dr. Julie Kozisek of Crete has been awarded the Distinguished Educator of Reading Award by the Nebraska State Reading Association.
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About 50 people turned out on a rainy Monday afternoon to listen and ask questions of U.S. Senator Mike Johanns at Crete’s VFW Club.
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LINCOLN — It seems the Doane track and field team just never runs out of entertaining and inspirational ways to win conference championships.
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The Doane women’s basketball team recorded a pair of home wins last week to complete their regular season, trouncing Nebraska Wesleyan 82-63 Wednesday and then outlasting Dordt 58-55 in a defensive struggle Saturday.
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The Doane men’s basketball team lost home conference games to Nebraska Wesleyan and Dordt last week, closing their season with a 10-19 overall and 5-15 Great Plains Athletic Conference record.
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Doane sophomore Nick Reed was named Monday to the Capital One Men’s Basketball Academic All-American College Division third team, the first men’s player in school history to earn the honor.
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The Doane baseball team, which received votes in the NAIA preseason poll, chalked up their second win of the season Saturday with a 6-3 decision over previously-undefeated and ninth-ranked Oklahoma Baptist in Shawnee, Okla.
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The Doane men’s tennis team won their season-opening match Saturday with an 8-1 decision over Simpson College of Iowa at the Woods Tennis Center in Lincoln.
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Chase Sherman took runner-up honors, Vince Thatcher earned a third place medal and Corey Kalkwarf became Crete High’s first four-time state medalist to cap the Cardinals’ 11th-place team finish Saturday at the conclusion of the three-day state wrestli...
The Crete High girls’ basketball team closed their regular season last week with a pair of losses to top ten-ranked teams, edged 37-36 by seventh-ranked Waverly Tuesday in the Crete High gym before falling 75-59 to top-ranked Seward Friday at Seward.
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