Lady Broncos split games with South Platte, Hyannis
The Wauneta-Palisade girls’ basketball team faced very different opponents last week.
The Wauneta-Palisade girls’ basketball team faced very different opponents last week.
The Cattle Trail Tournament can be a grueling week early in the basketball season with three games in five days.
Ron Schoenberger of Ender’s Lakers Bait and Tackle and Angie West at Wauneta Crossroads both reported an increase in the number of deer checked in after the first weekend of deer season.
Schoenberger said Lakers Bait and Tackle checked in 240 deer as of Tuesday morning, up nearly 50 from last year.
He added that there have been a lot of kids who have checked in their first deer ever, and many of them had nice deer.
Overall, Schoenberger estimated 70 percent of the deer to be muley and, in general, a lot of “nice big ones.”
West said 11-first timers have checked in at Wauneta Crossroads. West felt like there has been a lot of doe checked in. Crossroads has also seen a lot of familiar out-of-state hunters — including ones from Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Missouri, California and Texas — contributing to the 215 deer checked in.
Crossroads will also award the hunter whose picture receives the most likes on Facebook. A select group of the biggest deer will also be chosen by West for a second Facebook contest.
West also pointed out there are raffle tickets for a rifle still available. Proceeds will go to Hunter Education classes. A bow safety course is expected to be offered in January.
Nebraska Game and Parks reports early checked deer numbers up 8 percent statewide at preliminary deer check-in sites compared to the 2018 opening weekend of Nebraska’s firearm season.
During the 2019 opening weekend of the November firearm season, Nov. 16-17, the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission’s northeast district check stations recorded 17 percent more deer than last year. The number of checked deer was up 9 percent in the southeast, up 3 percent in the northwest and up 5 percent in the southwest district.
Game and Parks big game manager Luke Meduna said nice weather led to a lot of hunters in the field.
Meduna reminded hunters they won’t want to let their deer hang for as long in warm weather.
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With a strong senior class to lead the way, expectations were high for this season’s Wauneta-Palisade football team.
Members of this fall’s Wauneta-Palisade junior high football team are (back row, left to right) Aden Acton, Ashton Wheeler, Camden DeWester, Conner Bryner, Hoyte Holmes, Grayden Sutherland, (front row, left to right) Collin Bley, Trey McCrumb, Matthew Blackman, Nathan Blackman, Justin Warembourg
Members of this fall’s Wauneta-Palisade junior high volleyball team are (back row, left to right) assistant coach Tori Guillen, Lilian Sandoval, Sonya Behrends, Hailea Baker, Peyton Cox, Alexa Aguilar, Izabelle Stehno, Mandy Sandoval, GraCee Goings, head coach Terra Higgins (middle row, left to right) Brooke Knotts, Kiley Anderson, Kalli Hoskovec, Ryleigh McCrumb, Abigail Greaves, (front row, left to right) Alexandria Fischer and Jewel Holthus
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