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It didn’t take the Sutton Fillies long to establish their dominance during their Dec. 12 home clash with the Bruning-Davenport/ Shickley girls, as the Fillies pressed hard on both the offensive and defensive side of the game to produce a crushing 41-21 win over the Eagles to improve to 4-1 on the year.

A pair of Sandy Creek standouts on the football field lead Clay County’s post-season fall sports honors this year, as juniors Ethan Shaw and Connor Rempe were both honored by the Omaha World-Herald as first-team Class D-1 All-State first-team selections by the daily newspaper.

The Sutton Mustangs, fresh off of a runner-up finish at the season-opening Harvard Invitational, Dec. 2, entered into what could possibly be one of the toughest regular-season meets of the 2023-24 season.

Sandy Creek went 2-0 during the opening week of the 2023-24 basketball season with two hard-fought victories over both Wood River and David City.

Steady Sutton defense forces 17 turnovers in 39-32 win over the Falcons

A 16-year veteran softball coach, Todd Mau, will be inducted into the Nebraska Softball Hall of Fame in a ceremony to be held Saturday, Dec. 2, in Hastings.

Alivia Huxoll, a 2023 graduate of Sutton High School, and the daughter of Edd and Erica Huxoll, of Sutton, will be joining her teammates on the Metropolitan State University volleyball team when they open play in the 2023 NCAA Division II national volleyball tournament, entering the tournament as the sixth-seed in the South Central Regional tournament, played in Canyon TX on Thursday, Nov. 30.

Wrestling is a word that in Logan Searle’s dictionary belongs on the front page of any dictionary in circulation. He breathes wrestling, bleeds wrestling, and sleeps wrestling, and for those that know him well, know that he demands respect for the sport that he loves deeply.

Josh Shaw, a 2022 graduate of Sandy Creek High School, and a Fairfield native was named as a third-team selection to the 2023 All-MIAA all-conference football team, as Shaw, and his Fort Hays State Tigers football team closed out the season with a 7-4 overall record, and a 6-4 conference record.

The Harvard football team, in what many can call the toughest 6-Man football district in the state of Nebraska, has placed five players on the D6-3 All-District football team for their efforts during the 2023 season.

The 2023 volleyball season for the Sutton Fillies came to a close in the C2-8 sub-district tournament with a tough three-set loss to Southern Nebraska Conference rival, Thayer Central, leaving the Fillies with a 20-13 record.