March 2025

The Boone Central track opened their 2025 season at the Wayne State College indoor meet on Saturday, March 22nd. Both teams had a terrific start to their season in an unscored meet.

The Boone Central Youth Wrestling club had a number of youth travel to Grand Island last week for the 2025 NEUSA State wrestling tournament at the Heartland Event Center – and returned home with a number of medalists, and a lot of improvement.

Several members of the Boone Central basketball teams were recently named to the Mid-State All-Conference teams. Sophomore Addy Hedlund was named to the all-conference team for the girls.

The threat of a strong winter storm closed businesses and schools throughout Nebraska last week, and while the snow didn’t accumulate as much as feared (or perhaps hoped), high winds tore down power lines and especially trees in Albion and around the area, and the storm hit particularly hard to the southeast. Many readers called in downed trees and Cornhusker Power is still battling power outages, as well as southwest toward York.

The Boone Central Cardinal speech team outdistanced the field at the 2025 Class C1-4 District speech meet in Albion last week, qualifying 15 teammates and 13 events for the state tournament this weekend. The roster for the Cardinals included six District champions, six second place finishes and one third to qualify those teammates.

Abbigail Brodersen of Wayne State College was selected as the Northern Sun Conference Women’s Golfer of the Week Wednesday afternoon following her performance over the weekend at the Vegas Warrior Invitational played in Henderson, Nevada.

A number of youth from Newman Grove/St. Edward’s youth wrestling program took to the mats at Grand Island at the NEUSA State tournament last weekend, with one State champion, and two medalists coming home with some hardware.

Winners of the 2025 Alumni Basketball tournament in Newman Grove that was held over last weekend were the classes of 2006-2007. They are back row (l to r): Joe McWilliaims, Kyle Wiese, Ryan Rudloff, Trey Frauendorfer, Zach McCloud and Tyler Albracht; and front row: Preston Afrank and Tim Wiese; also in this picture are the Lions Club members who sponsored the tournament, in Lions shirts (l to r): are Gene Wissenburg (holding the basketball) Mark Seier and Dennis McCloud; and on the right side of the picture is Randy Benson and Tim Rossow.