Sports

The high school track season kicked off Tuesday for Holton and Jackson Heights athletes as Holton hosted an invitational. In the photo above, Jackson Heights runners Austin Mock (left) and Garret Hartman competed in a running event on the HHS track. 
The Jackson Heights High School Cobra boys varsity basketball team won the Class 2A sub-state championship in Horton on Saturday by defeating Jefferson County North High School 68-46.
The Jackson Heights Cobras boys basketball team is headed to the Kansas Class 2A State Tournament, at Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan, for the second straight year! The Cobras qualified for the state tournament for the second year in the row by winning the Horton 2A Sub-State Tourney over the...
For Holton High School head girls basketball coach Jon Holliday, Thursday’s first-round substate match between the Wildcats and Jefferson West showed why post-season play is a big draw in high school basketball. “It was a big-time atmosphere, and it should be at this time of the year,” Holliday...
Rock Creek High School’s varsity boys basketball team proved to be too much for Holton High School’s Wildcats to handle from the get-go. The Mustangs handed the Wildcats a 74-44 loss — and the end of the Wildcats’ 2015-16 basketball season — on Friday during substate play on their home court....
Royal Valley junior Lexi Baker (No. 21) takes a jump shot over a Silver Lake defender during the semi-final sub-state game Friday at Council Grove. Baker was the top-scorer for the Panthers with nine points.
The Royal Valley Lady Panthers fell to the undefeated Silver Lake Lady Eagles 50-27 in the second round of the sub-state tournament Friday in a fast-paced game that kept the ball moving.  “Their quickness caught us off guard a little,” said coach Corey Katzer. “We knew what they were going to come...
The Royal Valley High School wrestling team ended its season Saturday with two wrestlers on the podium at the 3-2-1A state tournament in Hays, including senior Charles Todd (285 pounds), who joined the team mid-season.  “Charles is arguably one of the most talented wrestlers to ever come through...
The Royal Valley High School girls basketball team has struggled this season to put together four complete quarters.  It’s a problem coach Corey Katzer has easily admitted after each loss, and it’s a problem Katzer said he knew the girls could overcome.  The girls proved him right after winning a...
The 1976 Jackson Heights Lady Cobras basketball team included (front row, left to right) regular starters Kirby (Hossfeld) Wittenbach, Kim (Cochren) Bethell, Connie (Brown) Barnhart, Myla (Spencer) Cole, Brenda Holaday, (back row) coach Ken Thomas, Cindy Ideker, Sheri (Oxandale) Dibbern, Connie (Minner) Barnhardt, Mary (Troxel) Tinkler, Sherri (Hasenkamp) Bugner, Sherry (Gerhardt) Streeter and Lori (Humphreys) Fickle.
For a short time, Kansas had its own version of the “Hoosiers’’ story made popular by a movie with the same name in which a small town basketball team in Indiana (Hickory) takes on and defeats basketball teams, in a state tournament format, from much bigger towns. The 1986 “Hoosiers’’ movie was...

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