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The opening round of the FKC Tournament, played at Eustis, was not kind to Axtell’s girls as Ansley-Litchfield downed the

Wilcox-Hildreth was the sixth seed heading into girls’ Fort Kearny Conference Tournament play and was paired up with the three-seed

The Minden Whippets girls basketball team earned a road victory on Feb. 7 when they traveled to Cozad to take

The Minden Whippets boys basketball team would need some heroics on the road on Feb. 7 as they traveled to

The Wilcox-Hildreth Falcons wrestling team completed its 2019-20 regular season schedule on Feb. 8 traveling to Southwest for the 18-team

Axtell claimed the 2020 Fort Kearny Conference Tournament title by defeating first-year league member Ansley-Litchfield 60-49 at the Viaero Center

The Axtell Wildcats and Wilcox-Hildreth Falcons wrestling teams competed on Feb. 7 in the Fort Kearny Conference/Twin Valley Conference tournament

The Minden Whippets wrestling team qualified for the 2020 NSAA State Dual Wrestling championships held on Feb. 8 in Kearney

The Minden Whippets wrapped up their 2020 Southwest Conference tournament on Feb. 1 traveling to North Platte to take on

Axtell’s boys had the lead nor didn’t trail until the final minutes when undefeated Loomis overtook them and escaped with

The Minden Whippets girls basketball team wrapped up its 2020 Southwest Conference tournament on Jan. 30 in Gothenburg placing in

Wilcox-Hildreth stayed within striking distance but could not overtake Franklin as the Lady Flyers beat the Lady Falcons 42-34 at

Wilcox-Hildreth’s boys took Franklin to overtime but fell short of getting the victory as the Flyers topped the Falcons 55-48

The Minden Whippets girls basketball team played an inspired contest at home on Jan 21 when the Class C-1 state-rated

The Minden Whippets boys basketball team hosted the St. Paul Wildcats on Jan. 21 in Minden with the Dawgs looking

The Minden Whippets boys basketball team dropped its fifth straight game on Jan. 24, dropping its home game to rival,

The Minden Whippets girls basketball team hosted the Holdrege Dusters on Jan. 24 at Minden High School. The Lady Whippets

The Minden Whippets wrestling team made the trip to Hebron on Jan. 24 to compete in the 15-team Thayer Central

Axtell scored the first 11 points of the game, then saw a lead as big as 16 in the fourth

Axtell got the best of short-handed Wilcox-Hildreth 71-37 on January 24 at Axtell. The Cats rose to 11-4, having won

The Minden Whippets girls basketball team lost its fifth straight game and third straight conference contest on Jan. 18 when

The Minden Whippets boys basketball team hosted the McCook Bison on Jan. 18 to cap off a three game week.

Wilcox-Hildreth’s girls found the going tough at Loomis on January 17 as the Lady Wolves defeated the Lady Falcons 72-31.

Wilcox-Hildreth’s stretch of tough opponents continued as the Falcons’ boys played at Ansley-Litchfield on January 18 and were defeated by

The Minden Whippets wrestling team was supposed to host the annual Minden Invitational on Jan. 17 at the high school

The Minden Whippets boys basketball team won its second consecutive game and three of its last four on Jan. 11

Kenesaw’s girls outlasted Wilcox-Hildreth 52-40 on January 10 in Wilcox dropping the Lady Falcons to 4-7.  Wilcox-Hildreth took an early

Wilcox-Hildreth played Kenesaw much closer than the teams’ first meeting a couple weeks ago, but the Blue Devils used a

The Minden Whippets girls basketball team hosted Ainsworth on Jan. 10 in a Southwest Conference showdown. The visiting Bulldogs used

Axtell’s boys overcame a halftime deficit to defeat Sumner-Eddyville- Miller 56-52 in Axtell on January 10 and in doing so

The Minden Whippet wrestling team hosted the St. Paul Wildcats in dual action on Jan. 9 at Minden High School.

The Axtell Wildcats wrestling team hosted the Maxwell Wildcats and Overton Eagles for the Axtell Duals held on Jan 9.

The Axtell Wildcats wrestling team competed in back to back days traveling to Geneva to compete in the 18-team Fillmore

Wilcox-Hildreth went 1-1 and placed third at the Harvard Holiday Tournament on December 27-28. The Falcons entered January with a

Axtell’s girls led early but Minden ultimately prevailed 44-32 in the opening round of the Axtell Holiday Tournament on December

Ben Edgecombe made Minden’s first and last buckets of the game, the final one off a missed free throw rebound

The Minden Whippets girls basketball team opened the second half of its 2019-20 season on January 4 hosting the Kearney