Four of the five Wayne Herald Nebraska High School cross country programs battled the Oct. 15 weather and course conditions to punch their ticket to state by either placing in the top three teams or top 15 individually.
From Twin Creeks Golf Club in Pender, Jude Ridenour from Tri County Northeast (11th - 18:04.7) punched his state ticket.
The Tri County Northeast girls competed indivdiually while the Tri County Northeast boys finished seventh (79 pts).
Tri County Northeast results were posted by Chloe Peters (46th - 25:25.1) and Hailey Millard (50th - 26:21).
During the boys division, behind the Wolfpack state qualifier (Ridenour) was Tucker Anderson (34th - 20:11), Alan Figueroa (36th - 20:14.6), Matthew Bousquet (65th - 23:34) and Timothy Peters (70th - 27:58.6).
A regular season finale along with Lewis and Clark Conference tourney play was on the docket for Tri County Northeast volleyball while the Wolfpack football team posted a third 50-point performance.
TCNE began with a five set loss at Ponca (25-22, 21-25, 25-22, 18-25, 9-15) on Oct. 15 before earning the #3 seed and going 1-1 during the Lewis and Clark Conference Tourney.
Oct. 19 in Winnebago, the Allen/Emerson-Hubbard co-op first suffered a 2-0 loss against #6 Creighton (21-25, 19-25) before winning 2-0 over #7 Osmond (25-17, 25-17) to now sit 15-11 on the season.
During the five-set loss, Wolfpack double-doubles were posted by Joslyn Mackling (18 kills/29 digs), Briley Anderson (11 kills/11 digs) and Ally Belt (44 assists/11 digs).
After playing a pair of one-loss teams the previous two weeks, a one-win team was on the schedule for Tri County Northeast to get back on the winning track.
From Bancroft, the visiting Wolfpack took control early posting a 50-6 win at Bancroft-Rosalie on Oct. 16.
TCNE improved to 4-4 while the Panthers fell to 1-7.
Logan Morgan (six carries, 78 yards) and Ben Bousquet (three carries, 42 yards) both scored twice as Blake Kneifl (nine rushes, 68 yards) and Cody Malasek (one rush for two yards) each scored once.
Hayden Hatcher posted a team-high eight tackles (one solo) followed by Millard (four solo) and Bousquet (two solo) both with seven tackles.
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