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The Sandy Creek volleyball team added four more wins to their total from last year, as after going 6-24 a year ago, the Cougars wrapped up the 2023 season 10-20.

Gail “Oz” Griess came out on top of the highly challenging Pigskin Picks “Nebraska High School Playoff Challenge” to claim the win over Linda Hansen by way of the tie-breaker.

SEMIFINAL BOUND: Sandy Creek reaches post-season semifinals for 1st time since 1994 with win at Cross County

Even seven years removed from competitive college volleyball, Ashlee Harms and her 2013 teammates on the 2013 Midland University volleyball team are still remembered as the volleyball team that put Warrior volleyball on the map.

Cougars move to 10-0

On Sunday, Oct. 22, a mid-afternoon football championship was decided on the campus of Hastings College, and Lloyd Wilson Field. The defending champions, the Big G Jets, 6-0, versus the Hastings Pepsi Chargers, 5-1, with the Chargers lone loss coming at the hands of the Jets in the regular season.

Following a tough three-set loss to Milford in the opening- round of the Southern Nebraska Conference volleyball tournament, the Sutton Fillies remained at home for a four-team consolation quadrangular that pitted the Fillies against David City and Fairbury, two teams that Sutton just went to battle with, Oct. 5, in Fairbury.

Opening round loss to North Platte St. Pats closes out Sutton season at 3-6