A strong third quarter helped the Scottsbluff boys basketball team pull away from Sidney for a 45-34 win Saturday night at Sidney High School. In the girls game at Scottsbluff High School, Sidney managed to prevail, 40-36.

Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.If Bob Glover had taken a moment to rest and reflect after his four swims in Millard South's dual at Millard West on Tuesday, no one would have objected. Glover instead was bouncing around the pool deck like a golden retriever just let out of the car after a long drive, leaving little doubt that the illness that sidelined him for a month won't keep him from his goals.

The North Platte Bulldogs wrestling squad was one of the few Telegraph area teams that were active on Saturday. The Bulldogs left North Platte on Friday to compete in the Greater Nebraska Athletic Conference championships held in Norfolk. Although not having four of their regular starters compete, the Bulldogs finished second behind rival Kearney.

In the past nine seasons, Norfolk Catholic has lost once in the regular season to a team other than Class C-1 rival Pierce. The defending state champion Knights will have to work the next two seasons to maintain that record. Wahoo and Wahoo Neumann are new regular-season opponents for Norfolk Catholic in the statewide football schedules the Nebraska School Activities Association drew up for the 2012 and 2013 seasons.

Of all the senior football players in the Omaha area, Blair linebacker Jake Schany was the only one Wednesday to sign a FBS national letter of intent. "There's guys walking on,'' Schany said. But you're the only one getting scholarship money right away.

Class B state golf championships will be played on new courses in the next three years as the Nebraska School Activities Association determined the winning bids at its Friday meeting. The girls tournament in Class B shifts from Grand Island to Lincoln, which loses the Class B boys tournament to Grand Island.

With the recent commitments of Taylor Erlenbusch to Hastings College and Meg Mumaugh to the University of Sioux Falls, six of the seven seniors from Millard South's 2011 Class A state softball championship team will continue their careers in college.

It didn't take Morgan Broussard long to realize just how much she was going to miss playing volleyball after the Gering High School volleyball team was eliminated from the state tournament in November.

Several western Iowans picked up awards last weekend at the Iowa High School Baseball Coaches Association's banquet in Cedar Rapids. Former Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson star Chris Hatcher, who eventually reached the major leagues with the Kansas City Royals, was inducted into the Hall of Fame as a player, and Rick Admire of Sergeant Bluff-Luton entered for his coaching success.

Of all the senior football players in the Omaha area, Blair linebacker Jake Schany was the only one Wednesday to sign a FBS national letter of intent. "There's guys walking on,'' Schany said. But you're the only one getting scholarship money right away.

Of all the senior football players in the Omaha area, Blair linebacker Jake Schany was the only one Wednesday to sign a FBS national letter of intent. "There's guys walking on,'' Schany said. But you're the only one getting scholarship money right away.