Sports

The Boone Central volleyball team was active last week with matches against Ord at home and on the road against Battle Creek and Elgin/Elgin Pope John. The Cardinals were off their game at home for Parent’s Night dropping the match to Ord but played hard at the triangular later in the week, stealing one set from a solid Battle Creek squad. The losses drop the Cards to 9-13.

The Boone Central Girls golf team traveled to the 2024 Mid-States Conference tournament in O’Neill last week, putting in a fourth-place finish. “On Thursday, we went to O’Neill for the Conference tournament,” said Coach Amy Allgood, “The wind made for a tough day out on the course.

What do you get when you combine a nicely manicured Cross Country course, cool temperatures, and a fired up team? Fast times at West Holt High! Or improvement, obviously! The Boone Central Harriers traveled north to the Atkinson Country Club to take on a huge bunch of schools from all over north-central Nebraska and came home smiling! Since joining this meet 10 years ago, the Cardinals have dominated the affair, winning at least one trophy each year, along with a massive haul of hardware. BC needed this shot in the arm to help propel them into the upcoming championship season.

District play continued last week with the Cardinals hosting the Centurions of Centura (0-5) looking for their first win of the season. Well, they will still be looking next week as a roster diminished by illness and injury was no match for the boys of Boone Central as they dominated from the beginning enroute to a 49-8 victory.

The Boone Central Lady Cards softball team rolled 2-1 at the Conference tournament in Wayne this past weekend, and started sub-district play at home, splitting two games, but holding out hope for a state berth at the end of this week.

The Boone Central Cardinals went through a gauntlet last week and although the Cardinal footballers came through it battered but not beaten, there is still a lot of season left to play including the start of district play in the C2-4 district.

The Lady Cardinal girls’golf team competed in Fullterton and Wayne this past week, with improvements all around and focus on their game. At the Fullteron event on Tuesday, Sept.

On Monday night, Sept. 30, the Boone Central Lady Cardinals played their last home games of the regular season with two tough teams in a round-robin triangular.

After the past two weeks of running on rather grueling hilly courses, the Boone Central Cross Country teams returned to the friendly confines of the Albion Country Club for the annual Tom Dickey Individual Invitational. This meet not only awards trophies for the top two finishing teams, it uniquely decorates the top 5 finishers of each grade level with medals.