Sports

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.

The Newman Grove/St. Edward Panthers football team has faced some tough opponents in their first four games of the 2024 season.

The Boone Central Lady Cardinals have marked about the three-quarter point in their fall 2024 season and have had some great successes. So far in the season, the Lady Cards have picked up a 12-9 record with wins over Highway 91, Blue River, Polk County, North Bend Central, Pierce, Centura, Logan View/ Scribner-Snyder, York and Wayne, doubling up on multiple games.