Sports

It was a big Thursday night at Central City High School with the opening of the Bison Activity Dome, but it was also a historic night for another reason. Thursday marked the beginning of a new path for girls in our community to take as the Bison girls wrestling team took to the mat for the first time this season and in program history.

Every great journey begins with the first step and that first step for the Central City High School boys’ basketball team was right into the newly opened Bison Activity Dome in front of a large crowd last Friday night. Through the excitement of the night, the Bison settled in and were off to the races as they jumped out ahead of Gibbon in a hurry.

The 2021-22 season was a long and tough one for the Central City High School girls’ basketball team as they waited 15 games to pickup their first and only victory of the season. This season the team came in with a new mindset as they looked to show improvement from last year.

There are plenty of reasons for Bison wrestling fans to be excited coming into a new season. A hard-working group has begun their journey towards self-improvement ahead of district weekend in February and they are off to a solid start. Central City opened their season in front of the Bison faithful who were not disappointed in an exciting night of wrestling.

There has been no shortage of wrestling success over the years at High Plains Community and the current crop of Storm wrestlers hit the mat last week looking to get off to a fast start to the 2022-23 season with the hopes of continuing a tradition of success.

The year was 1947 and the big news in the sports world that year was that Jackie Robinson took to the field for the Brooklyn Dodgers becoming the first African-American to play Major League Baseball. The Nation was on the rebound from the devastation of the second World War, but here in the local sports world guys like Bob Henk, Dale Campbell and Kent Newmyer were leading the Bison basketball team in a successful season.

When the curtains closed on the 2021-22 Bison wrestling season there was plenty to be excited about. Central City’s senior heroes road off into the sunset having accomplished great things during their run, but left behind was a group of young wrestlers ready to make their own mark on the Nebraska wrestling world.