Sports

As with many other activities, the Southeast Nebraska All-Star basketball games and volleyball match has been cancelled due to health and safety concerns with relations to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Next week the Clay County News will feature the 1997 and 1998 Class C state track championship titles won by the Sandy Creek girls track teams.

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With the changes that began on June 1, in regards to summer youth sports gearing up for a shortened season this summer, it’s important to know that with the start of baseball and softball in the State of Nebraska, the season comes with some strong guidelines to follow throughout the state and in Clay County.

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The Nebraska American Legion’s state athletic executive committee, chaired by Jody Moeller, has announced that the summer Legion baseball season will move forward, with practice beginning Monday, June 1 and the season’s first games can be played beginning on Thursday, June 18, as outlined by Gov. Pete Ricketts recently.

New coronavirus related guidelines will be in place, and teams must be insured to play before June 18 in order to take the field.

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EDITORS NOTE: This is the third in a series of at least three weeks of state track memories of the past featured in the Clay County News files.

As the story published in the May 24, 1990 issue of the Clay County News shared— To win a state championship in any sport, a team needs three things to happen: 1) to have your best athletes produce in the clutch, 2) to have some up and coming athlete, or athletes stun the competition with a stellar performance, and, 3) get a little help from the competition.

The story went on to share—The Sutton Mustangs benefited from all three of those factors at the 1990 Nebraska State Track Meet last weekend in Omaha. Sutton claimed its first ever Class C state track title and brought home a third state championship trophy in two seasons.

Clay County student-athletes honored by the Nebraska Chiropractic Physicians Association and the Nebraska School Activities Association for spring athletics in the state totaled 19 students for a total of 23 honors, as released by the NSAA last week.

Those from Harvard who were honored for the spring activities season included Kinzee Derr in journalism, Elizabeth Fields in music and Ben Okraska in boys track. Junior Ashley Nierman was honored three times, including journalism, music and girls track.

Sandy Creek had eight students honored 10 times, as Noah Shackelford and Jordan Heinz were both honored twice, Shackelford in golf and in journalism, while Heinz was honored for his academic standards in both journalism and in music.

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