Yuma girls fall to 0-3
An encouraging effort Saturday was followed by a discouraging one Tuesday by the Yuma High School girls basketball team. The Indians dropped to 0-3 on the season with a 54-26 loss to the Chase County Longhorns, in Imperial, Nebraska, just three days after nearly upsetting fourth-ranked Limon. A loss mostlyContinue Reading
Yuma boys drop to 0-2
Yuma High School boys basketball team is 0-2 early in the 2021 season, but showed grit in battling back in the fourth quarter of a 54-47 loss to top-ranked Limon, Saturday in the Indians’ home opener in The Pit. Limon dominated most of the first three quarters. The Badgers scoredContinue Reading
Young Yuma girls nearly pull off upset
Yuma High School’s girls basketball team looked like a completely different squad in its second game of the shortened 2021 season. The Indians nearly pulled off the upset of Class 2A second-ranked Limon before eventually succumbing 42-35, Saturday afternoon in their home opener in The Pit. After getting dominated inContinue Reading
Yuma boys wrestlers improve to 4-0
The Yuma High School boys wrestlers traveled south on Saturday, picking up two more dual wins to improve to 4-0 on the young season. Yuma opened Saturday’s action at 9 a.m. against host County Line, cruising to a 45-18 win. John Smith opened the action with a first-period pin againstContinue Reading
Yuma girls wrestlers have good run in season opener
The Yuma High School girls’ wrestling team made its presence felt during its season-opening quadrangular at Doherty High School in Colorado Springs, Saturday. The Indians first went two rounds with host Doherty. In the first round, Eva Ruiz and Makenzie Phelps each won by pin. Ashley Marshall lost by decision,Continue Reading
Yuma boys tripped up in opener
A great start eventually gave way to a disappointing finish for the Yuma High School boys basketball team, Thursday night in its season opener in Brush. The Indians raced out to a 11-1 lead in the game’s first two minutes. However, Brush battled back, sending the Indians home with aContinue Reading
Yuma girls have rough start to new season
The Yuma High School girls basketball team experienced a rough start to its season with a 61-37 loss at Brush, Thursday night. A new-look lineup, breaking in a new system under first-year head coach Jeremy Robinson, ran into an experienced Beetdiggers squad that featured plenty of scoring options. Brush quicklyContinue Reading
Yuma wrestlers open with two dual wins
Wrestling returned to The Pit, Thursday night. The mats were rolled out on the venerable old gym’s floor for the first time in nearly a year as the Yuma High School wrestlers opened their shortened Season B with a sweep of Highland and Sterling in a triangular hosted by theContinue Reading
Life on the COVID frontline
By Dr. Grayson Westfall The day I received that piece of paper declaring that I was a medical doctor was one of the proudest days of my professional life. I had worked so hard. I was finally a physician. I took my Hippocratic Oath to treat the sick to theContinue Reading
Both parties need more level-heads, fewer bomb-throwers
By Mark Hillman Five Americans lost their lives in the riot at the U.S. Capitol. What makes that tragedy even worse is that it was so unnecessary. We didn’t arrive at this volatile moment, when loud voices on both sides show contempt for each other, because of the failings ofContinue Reading