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There was no slowing down the Archangels Catholic Defenders last Tuesday evening at Nebraska Christian. The Eagles fell behind 26-11 after the first quarter, then saw the visitor’s lead balloon to 56-14 at the halftime break.

One day after scoring a career-best twenty-three points in Central City’s 69-66 win over Boone Central, senior Kayden Morner mirrored that effort against Centura last Friday, helping boost the Bison to a tough 4441 victory.

Five individual medals, headlined by a first place finish by Maci Peters, put the Central City girls’ wrestling team into fifth place at last Thursday’s Aurora Invitational. At 135 pounds, Peters needed just twenty-seven seconds to pin Lara Fernandez of York in the first round, then won by fall over Eva Hesso of Lincoln North Star in fifty-four seconds.

Someone had to lose last Tuesday’s game between Nebraska Christian and Archangels Catholic. On the court in Central City, the two state tournament hopefuls went toe-to-toe, made multiple runs, and brought things down to the wire, but despite standout performances from Nebraska Christian’s Sheridan Falk and Taytum Perdew, the Defenders were able to make a late run for a 4642 victory.

Central City competes at Adams Central, York The Central City Bison got their first taste of tournament competition on the mats on Saturday, and while the Green and Gold picked up a pair of gold medals during the event, the early season competition left the Bison hungry for more. On Saturday, the Bison joined fourteen other teams at the York Invitational.

After a sluggish start, High Plains picked up the defensive intensity and relied on a pair of standout seniors for offense to grab a 43-32 season opening win over Grand Island Lutheran last Thursday. For eight minutes, the High Plains and Grand Island Lutheran girls’ basketball teams couldn’t get any separation.

With little depth on their roster this season, every match is going to matter for members of the High Plains Storm boys’ wrestling program. That fact was illustrated for the first time this season on Friday, as three members of the Storm’s team competed at the Dom Reicks Invitational at Ravenna High School.

On the heels of a dominant 61-8 win over Gibbon in their season opener, the Central City Bison suffered their first loss of the season last Saturday when they fell to LouPlatte Conference foe Ord 68-41.

St. Mary’s led throughout the entirety of the first quarter in last Saturday’s game with Nebraska Christian. However, some stout defense and a standout performance from Sheridan Falk pushed the Eagles to their second win of the season, 47-37.