Just checking out the websites and KNEB Radio, and sports director Rob Barney, has listed their top 10 sports stories for 2006. Rob Barney has selected to WNCC events in his top 10. Here is the entire list, and for other sports news dealing with the region (high school and college), switch to www.kneb.com.
WNCC events appeared at No. 2 with the WNCC volleyball team's runner-up finish and No. 5 with the passing of WNCC men's basketball coach Ron Brillhart.
Here is KNEB's top stories for 2006 and how they were all ranked.
It was an outstanding year for sports in the area. Here is the list of KNEB's top ten stories.
1. Gering's Dean Gorsuch winning the National Finals Rodeo steer wrestling title and finishing the season number one ranked in the world.
2. The WNCC Cougar volleyball team's run to the national championship match, while being ranked number one most of the season and finishing 56-2 on the year.
3. The Scottsbluff High School girls basketball team qaulifying for its first ever trip to the state tournament.
4. The Scottsbluff girls golf team winning the Class B state title. The Gering girls cross country team winning the Class B state championship. And Brock Smith of Gering and Jacob Gonzales of Morrill capping unbeaten seasons with state wrestling titles.
5. The leave of absence and death of longtime WNCC men's basketball coach Ron Brillhart.
6. The high school football campaign featuring Gary Hartman's final season as Scottsbluff High football coach and the team's run to the state playoffs, and Minatare capturing its first postseason win ever in the first round of the six-man playoffs.
7. The Twin Cities Zephyrs legion baseball team qaulifying for and hosting the State Class A Tournament.
8. The near deaths of Scottsbluff High School activities director Lee Dick, his wife Bonnie and SHS girls cross country and track coach Tayna Ball in an automobile accident in Mexico.
9. Scottsbluff High School's Jordan Wilberger being a recruited walk-on for the National Champion Nebraska Cornhusker volleyball team.
10. Mitchell High School grad Nathan Lashley playing on the Nationwide golf tour.
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