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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....
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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,...
