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Javier Marino earns a pinfall victory over Lincoln North Star’s Toby Lammers in his first round matchup at Platteview Friday. Marino ended the day with a second place finish.
HPC Storm battle at competitive Platteview Invite Friday
Richard Rhoden
High Plains competed last week with multiple schools much larger in size and had some success.
The Storm finished out the first part of the season before Christmas break at the Platteview Invite Friday, including schools from multiple classes all in one event.
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Eric Kothe, left, and Brad Consbruck were among the neighbors helping in a Nov. 15 harvest bee. Also helping were Ron and Gene Consbruck.
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Neighbors return favor to Giltner farmer
Richard LaBrie has been on the giving end of a harvest bee, helping friends and neighbors bring in their crops when they could not.
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
Aurora Huskies
4R approves girls wrestling
Cheyenne Rowe
The votes are in. Girls wrestling will officially be hitting the mats at Aurora High School this winter as a school-sponsored activity.
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Aurora Huskies
A look at practice, competition for girl’s wrestling
Cheyenne Rowe
As the October 4R board meeting approaches, the decision on whether or not to incorporate girl’s wrestling as a sanctioned team sport at Aurora High School is still on the table.
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
Aurora Huskies
4R board hears girls wrestling proposal
Cheyenne Rowe
Aurora wrestling coach and middle school physical education teacher Derek Keasling brought a crowd of supporters and a proposal to incorporate girls wrestling as an NSAA sanctioned sport at Aurora High School to Monday evening’s 4R school board meeting.
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
High Plains Community Schools
HPC establishes girls wrestling
Jeni Obermier
The High Plains Community School (HPC) Board of Education met Monday night to discuss changes to their activity programs.
First on the table was whether or not to establish girl’s wrestling as its own sport, separate from the boy’s.
Tuesday, July 13, 2021
Aurora’s Kannon DIllon and Leo Johnson battle it out during competition at Friday’s youth wrestling tournament.
Understanding the chaos of youth wrestling
Richard Rhoden
Surely a couple future state wrestling champions were in action Friday night at Aurora’s youth wrestling tournament.
Attending a wrestling event in general is unlike any other sporting event out there. Going to a youth event with PreK-aged tykes makes it that much more unique.
Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Jeremy Oswald scored his 100th career victory during the first round of the state wrestling championships Friday with a pinfall.
Oswald earns 100th career win in last high school event
Richard Rhoden
Jeremy Oswald’s last high school victory will be one to remember.
It wasn’t for a state title, or even for a medal. It was for career win No. 100 in front of a state wrestling crowd.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Aurora’s Brekyn Papineau had an eventful state championship event, recording his 100th career victory while finishing third at 195 as one of five medalists for the Huskies.
Papineau, Jividen finish state championships with medals
Richard Rhoden
On paper, it was Aurora’s best state championship run since 2005. The Huskies had five semifinalists, three finalists and two state champions.
The two wrestlers who didn’t come out on the right side of semifinal matches were Brekyn Papineau and Aaron Jividen.
Tuesday, February 23, 2021
HPC’s Hunter Gress picked up a second period pinfall victory over Cross County/Osceola’s Jakob Hogan.Cutline
Storm wrestlers finally compete on home mats
Richard Rhoden
The Storm wrestling team competed in front of a home crowd for the first time this season last week, hosting a pair of conference schools in a triangular.
East Butler and Cross County/Osceola came to Clarks Jan. 5 for some midweek wrestling.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
