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11 wrestlers headed to state

This Friday and Saturday, 11 high school wrestlers from Jackson County will compete with grapplers from across Kansas for a shot at a state title in the state wrestling tournament. Holton High School will send five wrestlers — Justin Pool, Tyler Price, Justin Rieschick, Kyler Tannahill and Tel...

Barta, Bohannon selected for Shrine Bowl

Holton High School senior Mason Barta (left) and Holton Middle School eighth-grader Cody Bohannon (right) were honored Tuesday night during the Holton-Jefferson West basketball game for their participation in the upcoming 2016 Kansas Shrine Bowl, to be held Saturday, July 30 in Emporia. Donnie...

Holton's Bryson Patch (center) stepped through a trio of Sabetha Blue Jay defenders to go for a score, with teammate Aaron Bain (at right) at the ready for a pass. Patch contributed 25 points to the Wildcats' 47-38 victory on Friday. (Photo by Brian Sanders)

Wildcat boys get much-needed win over Sabetha

Holton High School’s boys varsity basketball team evened up its record with Sabetha for the 2015-16 season with an encouraging 47-38 win over the Blue Jays on Friday, thanks to Head Coach Ryan Noel’s halftime reminder to his team that they have to “keep believing.” At the halfway point of...

Holton's Sarah Lierz (center right) attempts to block a Sabetha team member while Mackenzie Moore (center rear) holds off another Blue Jay in Friday's night's game. (Photo by Brian Sanders)

Lady Cats struggle to keep pace with Blue Jays

For the second time this season, the Holton High School girls varsity basketball team found itself unable to keep pace with the Sabetha High School Blue Jays, but the margin of loss was not as large as it was back in December. Sabetha won Friday’s match against the Lady Cats by a 59-41 score,...

Holton's Justin Rieschick (right) flipped Jake Patterson of Shawnee Heights near the end of Rieschick's come-from-behind victory in the 145-lb. division championship match at Saturday's Gerald Sadowski Invitational tournament in Holton. (Photo by Brian Sanders)

Holton takes fifth, Rieschick takes a first at Sadowski Invitational

More than half of the Holton High School wrestlers participating in the annual Gerald Sadowski Memorial Tournament found themselves on the medalist’s stand Saturday, including a first-place showing from senior Justin Rieschick and three second-place efforts. “We performed about where I...

Holton basketball boys fall to 2 out of 3 at Tonganoxie tourney

The Holton Wildcat boys’ visit to the annual Tonganoxie Basketball Invitational didn’t get off to a good start, but they did come away with a win against league foe Jefferson West, it was reported. Head coach Ryan Noel said that while the opening loss against Eudora and a closely-played overtime...

Holton girls take fourth at Basehor-Linwood basketball tourney

After defeating the host team at the Basehor-Linwood Tournament on Wednesday, the Holton Lady Cats basketball team dropped the next two games, including a loss to longtime rival Topeka Hayden, to take fourth place at the tournament. Head coach Jon Holliday said that while the two losses were hard...

Holton's Austin Frakes (shown above, middle) fights for a rebound with Royal Valley's Derrick Barger (left) and Noah Rottinghaus (right) in Friday's game. While Frakes and the rest of the Wildcats held their own inside early, the Panthers found some room to work in the second half and pulled away for a 43-32 victory.

Late run pushes Panthers to victory in county showdown against the Wildcats

Neither Holton nor Royal Valley wanted to give up much ground in a county rivalry game on the basketball court Friday night. Both teams played hard-nosed defense and kept the other in check, but a key stretch late gave the Panther boys just enough separation to pick up a rare 43-32 victory in the...

Lady Cobras clip Bears in tight win at home in non-league action

After dropping a nail-biter on the road against Horton last Friday, the Jackson Heights girls basketball team flipped the script when it returned home to face St. Marys in a non-league contest on Monday night. While the teams were neck-and-neck the whole way, the Cobras even trailed in the fourth...

Wildcat Hayley Thompson (shown above, second from left) pulls up for a short jumper in the first half of Friday's rivalry game against the Panthers. It was the three that lifted HHS to an early lead, though, and ultimately a 50-38 victory over RVHS.

Hot start fuels Holton girls in road win at Royal Valley

After an explosive offensive outburst in last Tuesday’s win over Hiawatha, it looked like the Holton girls basketball team caught some of that lightning in a bottle and brought it with them to Hoyt on Friday for a rivalry game against Royal Valley. Holton shot lights out from beyond the three-...