Following an 18-year career as the head coach of the Midland University baseball team in Fremont, Neb., Jef Field was inducted into the school’s athletics hall of fame earlier this month. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)

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By Brett Nachtigall

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FREMONT, Neb. – Midland University, a private liberal arts college of about 1,400 students located in Fremont, Neb., near Omaha, welcomed five new members into the Warrior Athletics Hall of Fame during ceremonies earlier this...

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Sarah Stevens holds the Hot Springs High School record in both the shot put and discus, which she set as a freshman in 2001, before moving to Fort Collins, Colo., for her final three years of high school. 

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TEMPE, Ariz. – Former Hot Springs Bison standout athlete Sarah (Stevens) Walker is being inducted into the Arizona State University Athletics Hall of Fame, following a stellar track and field career for the Sun Devils from 2006-2009.

She joins...

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FROM LEFT: Laura Sedlacek swings at a pitch while playing for the Igloo Bar team; Alex McCarthy-Stanley is one of the youngest competitors in the weekly Elks Lodge horse shoe league that takes place each Sunday in Butler Park; Troy Goettsch pitches this past Sunday evening for the team his business, Dew Drop Inn, sponsors as part of the Hot Springs Co-Ed Slowpitch Softball League.

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HOT SPRINGS – The Hot Springs Bison Athletics Hall of Fame committee recently announced its fourth class of inductees who will officially be enshrined as the 2019 class during homecoming weekend on Saturday, Sept. 14, at a banquet at the Mueller Civic Center. 

This year’s inductees include the back-to-back State Class "A" Champion 1996 and 1997 Girls Track & Field Teams, Don Turbiville (1973), David Tays (1980) and Mickey Dennis (1997).

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Surrounded by several past winners over the 55-year history of the tournament, this year’s Father’s Day Invitational winners were Chase Palo and Jacob Palo (fourth and sixth from left) of Hot Springs.

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HOT SPRINGS – A total of 34 two-person teams competed this past weekend in the 55th annual Father's Day Invitational at Southern Hills Golf Course in Hot Springs.

Using Stableford scoring system which gives a...