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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

The Axtell Wildcats and Minden Whippets wrestling teams opened their second half of the 2019-20 season on January 3 traveling

The Minden Whippet girls basketball team pulled out an overtime road win on December 19 against the Elm Creek Buffaloes

The Minden Whippets boys basketball team completed its pre-Christmas scheduled on December 19 traveling to Elm Creek to take on

Hot shooting Amherst’s first half scoring was enough to help the Broncos top the Axtell boys 70-51 at Axtell on

The Minden Whippets girls basketball team got back into the win column on Dec. 17 when they hosted the Central

The Minden Whippets boys basketball team played a competitive game on Dec. 17 when they hosted the Central City Bison

The Axtell Wildcat wrestling team hosted its annual Axtell Invitational on Dec. 17 with 12-team competing. The Wildcats led the

Wilcox-Hildreth’s boys picked up their first win in a 56-26 defeat of Red Cloud on December 17 at Red Cloud.

The Wilcox-Hildreth girls parlayed their best offensive and defensive efforts to date into a 54-17 win at Red Cloud on

The Lady Falcons of Wilcox-Hildreth slipped to 1-2 as they were downed by Shelton 32-22 at Shelton on December 12. 

Wilcox-Hildreth’s boys hung around for a while but were ultimately defeated by Shelton 76-28 at Shelton on December 12. The

The Minden Whippets boys basketball team got its first win of the 2019-20 season at home in a Southwest Conference

The Minden Whippet wrestling team concluded its busy week of three meets on December 14 traveling to Holdrege for the

The Minden Whippets girls basketball team moved their record to 2-1 following its road win on December 10 after traveling

The Minden Whippets boys basketball team saw its record fall to 0-3 on the season following its December 8 road

The Minden Whippets girls basketball team opened the 2019-20 season with a home victory over the Southern Valley Eagles by

The Minden Whippets boys basketball team took to the court on December 5 in their 2019-20 season opener hosting the

The Minden Whippets wrestling team competed on December 6 in the Ravenna Invitational with the Dawgs coming out in second

The season opener for Axtell’s boys was a barn-burner but the Cats came up a point short as Pleasanton escaped

Axtell’s girls faced a tough assignment hosting Class D1 top-ranked Pleasanton to tip off the season on December 5. The

Wilcox-Hildreth traveled to Elwood on December 5 to get the 2019-20 basketball season underway. The opponent was a newly formed

Wilcox-Hildreth’s girls initiated the new season with a 48-44 victory over Hi-Line (Elwood, Eustis-Farnam cooperative) at Elwood on December 5. 

The Wilcox-Hildreth Falcons volleyball team had its 2019 season come to an end in the Class D2-8 subdistrict tournament hosted

The Axtell Wildcats volleyball team played in the championship match of the Class D1-9 subdistrict played at Minden High School