Sports

The 2022 Badger Homecoming will be kicking off its week full of festivities on Sunday, September 25. The annual Badger Booster Powderpuff Football and volleyball activities will be held at the Badger Memorial Field and in the VHS gym starting at 5:00 p.m. with Powderpuff Football.

Valentine Cross Country ran at the O’Neill Invitational, Friday, September 16, 2022. Fifteen teams competed at this meet.

The Lady Badgers began their week hosting a triangular, Tuesday, September 6, 2022. Their first game, they lost to O’Neill in two sets.

Saturday, September 10, 2022, the Badger Cross Country team traveled to Broken Bow where they competed. The Men’s 5,000 Meter individual results are as follows: 26th place, Isaac Cronin, 18:49:69; 86th place, Anthony Gillette, 21:43.21; 98th place, Kadon Wenig, 22:35.37: 116th place, Landon Mooney, 24:21.08; 119th place, Harvey Dean Fast Horse, 25:02.52.

The Cowboys traveled to Arthur County Friday, September 2, 2022. The Cowboys were bested by the Wolves and lost with a score of 20-48.

The Badgers hosted Alliance Friday, September 9, 2022 and came away the winners with a score of 46-12. Coach Ian Bish said, “We did a great job of controlling the line of scrimmage up front on both sides of the ball.

The Lady Badgers traveled to Chadron, Tuesday, September 6, and came away with first place out of eight teams with a combined score of 408. Scottsbluff was in second place with 421; Gering, 436; Sidney, 478; Mitchell, 481; Chadron, 484; Grodon-Rushville, 554; Bayard, 631, and Alliance rounding out the teams.

Ten teams competed Thursday, September 1, 2020 at Atkinson. The Lady Badgers placed second with 401. Placing first was O’Neill with 399. Rounding out the scoring were Pierce in third place with 412; Battle Creek, 428; West Holt, 447; Boone Central, 483; Crofton, 490; West Holt JV, 516; Ainsworth, 620, and Elkhorn Valley.

Before competitions began, the Valentine High School Cross Country Team participated in a Fun Run at Fredrick Peak golf course, Tuesday, August 23, 2022. Thursday, September 1, the team traveled to Ainsworth for their 15th annual invitational, held at the ainsworth Municiipal golf course.

Thursday, September 1, 2022, the Lady Badgers hosted the Winner Warriors. Scoring was as follows: Valentine - 22, 28, 9, 25, 15 = 3 Winner - 25, 26, 25, 17, 9 = 2 There were 33 kills in the game with Kinsey Buechle leading with 10, followed by Lainey Egelhoff with 9, Ashlee Bacon with 5, Malika Monroe and Finley Mosner each with 3, Aubrey Benson with 2, and Kimber McGinley 1.