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The Lady Badgers attended NSAA State Golf in Columbus, October 10 - 11, 2022 at the Elks Country Club. The Class C tournament consisted of the top 15 schools from across the state and Valentine ended with seventh place after shooting a team score of 390 and 397.

Saturday, October 15, 2022 was a home tournament for the Lady Badgers. Four teams competed, and here are their results.

The Class C-5 District Cross Country meet was held at Crandall Creek Country Club in Ogallala. The top 15 from each district qualify for the state meet which will be held Friday, October 21, 2022, at the Kearney Country Club in Kearney. Grant Springer qualified for state. As a junior, Grant was seventh at districts running his personal best time of 17:58.56. This is 12 seconds better than his previous personal best time which puts him seventh on the leaderboard.

Friday, October 14, 2022, the Badgers hosted Mitchell High School and lost in a close match, 20-21. Scoring by quarter: Valentine - 6, 0, 8, 0, 6 = 20 Mitchell - 7, 7, 0, 0, 7 = 21 Coach Ian Bish said, “Extremely proud of our guys and how they competed against a very tough team.

Wednesday,October12,2022was a beautiful, sunny day with a high of 58 degrees, and wind gusts that were a bit shy of that temperature at 52 mph. Things went smoothly as the bison were driven down the pathway into the corrals for the annual round-upatFortNiobraraNational Wildlife Refuge.