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RAISED ACHIEVEMENT BAR FOR STUDENTS State education officials have raised the achievement bar for Nebraska students so they can keep up academically with students across the nation, Nebraska Education Commissioner Matt Blomstedt said Friday. Blomstedt released the results of the first statewide assessment done since state edu-cation standards were reformed in 2014. “The standards are required by state statute to be updated on a seven year cycle, and not only that, but when looking across the country, we see that college and career readiness is the new benchmark, and we don’t want Nebraska to fall behind,” Blomstedt said. The college and career readiness tests start when students enter the third grade, and they continue through eighth grade. In high school, the ACT is used as the assessment test. Blomstedt said his depart-ment is working on getting the data out to the schools and parents, al-though that is still a work in progress.

6TH ANNUAL PINK OUT AT MCC McCook Community College and Phi Theta Kappa are staging the sixth annual pink-out event Thursday to help raise awareness and money for breast cancer. The Lady Indian volleyball team takes on Southeast Com-munity College at 5 p.m. at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center. A number of activities are lined up for this year’s event including new pink shirts, pink bracelet and hair bows, cotton candy in the concourse, and treats – including pink funfetti cupcakes baked by PTK members, volley-ball players and MCC staff. This year’s T-shirt was designed by PTK offi-cer and Lady Indian softball player Taya Thorpe, Malad, Idaho. She is a pitcher for MCC and Vice President of Fellowship for PTK. She and fellow PTK members are taking orders for shirts for $15 and $5 from each pur-chase goes directly to the American Cancer Society. Members will take orders until Monday and be delivered by PTK members in time for the Thursday game. The Lady Indian volleyball team will wear pink uniforms and during game introductions will throw pink shirts into the crowd. Mem-ber of Phi Beta Lambda are staffing the concessions for the event. The concourse will have tables with breast cancer pamphlets. There will be a number of gift baskets and prize packages available through a raffle. This is the sixth straight year PTK has used the Pink-Out volleyball game to help raise money and awareness for breast cancer. Over the past five years, PTK has helped raise $5,200 which was donated to the American Cancer Society.

RE-ELECTION CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISER The hundreds of people who attended a re-election campaign fundraiser

for Gov. Pete Ricketts were asked Sunday afternoon to not only to con-tinue to donate their money — but also their time — to help Ricketts get elected to a second term. The fundraiser was held at the Dale and Peg Gangwish farm just northeast of Shelton. The pleas not only came from Ricketts, but from fellow Republican governors Eric Greitens of Missouri, Matt Bevin of Kentucky and Scott Walker of Wisconsin. Walker also had a brief campaign for the Republican nomination for president, announcing his candidacy in July 2015 and ending his campaign in September 2016, in part because of low poll numbers compared to the other GOP candidates, including Donald Trump. During their speeches, the four governors talked about GOP successes at the state level, all saying low-tax, pro-business polices that lessen government regulation is why the United States has 34 Republican governors currently serving in office. Ricketts told people in the crowd that their efforts are vital to his re-election. “Then our job is to de-liver on those conservative values that have made this such a great state,” he said.

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SPORTS Pairings for the Class B state softball tournament were released yes-

terday. The McCook Lady Bison, winners of the Class B6 district tourna-

ment, will face top-seed Elkhorn South tomorrow afternoon at 2 p.m.

in the first game of the double-elimination tournament in Hastings.

Pregame coverage on KICX starts at 1:50. Other first round matchups

include Wayne vs. Gretna, York vs. Seward and Hastings vs. Crete. The

state tennis pairings were released yesterday. The McCook number

one doubles team of Sam Knoll and Spencer Krysl are the sixth seed

while the number two doubles team of Von Fritsche and Mason Micha-

elis are the ninth seed. Zion Moyer is the ninth seed at number two

singles. The Lady Bison volleyball team travels to Broken Bow tonight

for matches with Broken Bow and Ainsworth. The MCC Lady Indians

volleyball team will host NJC at the Graff Events Center, starting at 7

p.m.

The Nebraska football team practiced for an hour and 20 minutes with

helmets and shoulder pads on Monday evening. The Huskers split time

between the Hawks Championship Center and the Ed and Joyanne

Gass practice fields. Offensive Coordinator Danny Langsdorf met with

the media about what the offense was lacking last weekend against

Wisconsin and what they hope to bring to the table in this Saturday’s

matchup against the Ohio State Buckeyes. “We talked about it a lot

today, about really being kind of a feast or famine run,” Langsdorf

said. “We hit a 12-yarder, then we’d go zero and then we’d go one,

and then we’d hit 11, and then we’d go one, and so when our averages

are okay, our most common runs have been zeros and ones, kind of

the mode I guess, median and mode. We’ve got to get the most com-

mon runs to be up there in that four-, five-yard range and winning the

downs, so it’s a little bit more consistency there. We’ve got to keep

the hits down, we had eight hits, and that’s too many, we only gave up

a sack, but that’s too many hits on the quarterback too.”

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