Sports

Students in fourth through ninth grade at Sandy Creek attended the fifth annual Breakthrough Basketball Camp June 5-7 at Sandy Creek High School. Coach Jim Huber taught Essential Skills and Decision making to the 70 total campers, including the 25 Sandy Creek students, in attendance.

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BY JORDYN HULINSKY

The Sutton seniors only allowed BDS to score one run in the game Wednesday, June 20, earning the 6-1 win.

Sam Nuss led the Mustangs at the plate with his two-run home run in the second inning.

Garrett Nuss and Rees Lyon pitched for the Mustangs in the win. Garrett Nuss threw for four innings, allowing two hits and striking out six. Lyon threw for three innings, allowing one run on four hits while striking out one.

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BY JORDYN HULINSKY

The Fairfield juniors dropped three games last week, making the team record 2-5.

FALL TO SUPERIOR, 15-3

Tuesday, Fairfield struggled at pitching, putting five guys on the mound throughout the five-inning game.

Connor Crumbliss started things and pitched for two complete innings, allowing four runs on two hits while walking three.

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BY JORDYN HULINSKY

The Sutton juniors went 1-3 at the Hastings juniors tournament over the weekend. The juniors defeated Lincoln North Star JV Saturday after falling to Hastings Runza and Gering, Friday and Saturday, respectively. The Mustangs also lost to Creighton Prep JV Sunday.

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Myles Smith locates a tennis ball thrown by a Nebraska Husker Baseball player during a drill at the NE Baseball Academy camp hosted in Sutton, Tuesday, June 12.

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By JORDYN HULINSKY

The Fairfield juniors earned the first win of the season on home turf, Wednesday, June 6. The team defeated Alma, 10-9, in six and a half innings. Fairfield then beat Hebron, 10-9, in spectacular fashion in the bottom of the seventh, Friday, June 8.

DEFEAT ALMA, 10-9

Wednesday, Fairfield put four players on the mound beginning with Andrew Paus, who threw for one inning, allowing four runs on five hits, while walking one and striking one.

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BY JORDYN HULINSKY

The Fairfield juniors’ baseball team played its first game since reinstalling the team Wednesday, May 30, at DLD Park in Sutton.. Fairfield played the Sutton juniors for the first game, with Sutton taking the 8-3 win.

Fairfield was able to bring around three in the competition— Rodney McDonald, Matthew Maley and Connor Crumbliss, with Crumbliss and Brayton Jarosik earning RBIs in the game.

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BY JORDYN HULINSKY

The Sutton Mustangs played three innings of a game against Pleasant Dale before the lightning caused the game to end for the night, Tuesday, May 29.

The game will be labeled as a suspended game as it won’t be finished at another time. The game will not count toward either team’s record. The Mustangs scored in all three at-bats the team had in the game, before the weather took control.

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BY JORDYN HULINSKY

Sutton’s seniors baseball team earned a 3-2 win against the York Cornerstones baseball team Wednesday, May 23, in Sutton’s home opener in a match-up that lasted for 11 innings. The team then split games Saturday and Sunday, winning against Beatrice 5-1 and falling to Grand Island Home Federal 10-2.

CORNERSTONE-YORK MAY 23

In the home opener against York, Garrett Nuss pitched six complete innings, with Nathan Drudik coming in as relief in the final five innings.

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BY JORDYN HULINSKY

The juniors earned a close win, 12-11, against York Cornerstone Wednesday in the home opener, advancing the team’s record to 2-0, but then fell in the next three games— Hastings, 29-4, Friday; Beatrice, 6-5, Saturday; and Grand Island Tom Dinsdale, 11-8, Sunday—to change the team’s record to 2-3.

CORNERSTONE, MAY 23

In the home opener against York, Quenton Jones, Eli Skalka and Nathan Drudik hit the mound for the Mustangs with Jones pitching 2.2 innings, Skalka for one out, and Drudik for two outs.

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