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A trio of Longhorns including, from left, Caelyn Long, Riley Owens and Brooklyn Christensen run together during last week’s meet at McCook. Kambree Meeske is not far behind. (Photo by Jonathan Beverly)

Landis Beverly focuses on the course ahead of him during last week’s cross country meet at McCook. (Photo by Jonathan Beverly)

McCook hills good tune up for cross country team

Preparing for last week’s cross country meet at the hilly Heritage Hills course at McCook, Coach Carl Zuege took his kids out in the country Monday to get some conditioning in on the hills east

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A herd of Longhorns were coming at Holdrege quarterback Drake Johnson. He got the throw off but it was intercepted by Scott Wheeler near the end zone. (Photo by Jim Williams)

Parker Dillan had a big game Friday night, catching five balls for 107 yards and two touchdowns. (Photo by Jim Williams)

Longhorns even record with 45-7 win at Holdrege

The Chase County Longhorns came home with a decisive 45-7 win over the Holdrege Dusters Friday to improve their record to 2-2.

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Shortstop Morgan Peterson makes a great 6 to 3 put-out to Ryley Vrbas at first, but a no-pitch had been called by the umpire prior to the grounder, which negated the play. (Johnson Publications photo)

Sydnie Allen wisely watches this pitch go by in the opener with Wray last week. (Johnson Publications photo)

Softball team dominates in Wray double-header

It’s taken a couple of weeks, but Chase County’s softball team picked up its first two wins of the season against Wray, Colorado.

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Kalen Wallin holds off Ogallala’s Carter Brown at the finish line to finish fourth in last week’s Chase County invite at the Imperial Country Club. (Johnson Publications photo)

Brooklyn Christiansen, above, holds off Perkins County’s Hailey Snyder down the stretch at last week’s Chase County invite. Macy Coleman, below, runs in front of a pack of girls in last week’s meet en route to a 10th place finish. Christensen also earned a medal, finishing 12th. (Johnson Publications photo)