Sports

It took extra basketball for a Pioneer Conference girls basketball champion to be crowned at Southern High School on Saturday, February 3, but in the end, Falls City Sacred Heart would avenge a January 25 loss to the Lady Eagles to claim the title, making Johnson-Brock the tournament runners-up. On their way to the conference title game, Johnson-Brock earned a 54 point win over Sterling on Tuesday, January 30 and held off Diller-Odell in the semifinals in Wymore.

A pair of worthy conference opponents were unable to knock off the class D1 #1 Eagles last week, allowing Johnson-Brock to improve to 16-0 on the season ahead of the Pioneer Conference Tournament, in which the Eagles are the top seed.

Three Auburn girls wrestlers claimed individual conference titles at the Eastern Central Nebraska Conference Girls Invite on Tuesday, January 24 at Johnson County Central High School. Lucia Campbell, Mia Gerdes, and Gretchen Paschal all finished first in their respective weight classes to lead Auburn to a 4th place finish at the conference meet. Finishing second at the conference meet was Tayla Jones and Addie Henry Included among normal ECNC opponents was Omaha Benson, Thayer Central, Fillmore Central, Exeter-Milligan/Friend, and Meridian.