Sports

The Ainsworth Wrestling Team hosted a Quad Wrestling Meet with North Central, Burwell and West Holt. Landon Holloway, Ainsworth, went undefeated in his three matches.

Dates, Times and Menu Subject to Change Thursday, December 8th 6:00 p.m.: Middle School Girl’s Basketball with Stuart at Ainswort. 6:30 p.m.: FFA Christmas Party.

The Ainsworth Girls Wrestling Team hosted the West Holt Girls Wrestling Team on December 1st and won 24-18. Individual Results: West Holt Ainsworth 24 - West Holt 18 100 Lbs.

The Ainsworth Girls Wrestling Team competed in the O’Neill Invite on December 3rd. Jolyn Pozehl brought home first place in the 120 lb.

Ainsworth Middle School hosted an Invitational Wrestling Tournament on Tuesday, November 22nd. Ten teams from Alliance, North Central, O’Neill, Sandhills/Thedford, St.

Girls Head Basketball Coach Julie Micheel is looking forward to the upcoming season. “We have an excellent returning point guard and ball handler, good height inside and a lot of speed on our team,” said Coach Micheel.

The winter sports season begins this week for Ainsworth High School athletes. The first event will be a Wrestling Quad in Ainsworth on Thursday, December 1st at 5:00 p.m.

Ainsworth’s Head Coach for Girls Wrestling, Todd Pollock said he is looking forward to this coming season. With 20 years coaching experience, Coach Pollock is joined by Assistant Coach Oren Pozehl.

The Ainsworth Boys Basketball team is looking at a rebuilding year after losing six seniors with three of those starters. Coming off a 17-9 and District Runner Up season and in his third year as Ainsworth’s Head Coach Jake Nelson said, “We have five players with varsity experience returning this year in Trey Appelt, Traegan McNally, Carter Nelson, Morgan Kinney and Ethan Fernau.

Kirk Peterson of Ainsworth was one of the many deer hunters who took to the fields for the opening of Nebraska Deer Season on Saturday, November 12th. Peterson shot this nice five-point white tail deer north of Ainsworth in Brown County. Jim Pinney, owner of Husker Meats which is the deer check station for Ainsworth, reported 150 deer have been checked in as of early Monday morning. Pinney said they checked in 49 deer on Saturday with 98 more checked on Sunday and three checked early Monday morning. The season covers nine days and ends Sunday, November 20th.