Sports
Wetmore and Atchison County opened the winter sports season last week, with the Cardinals in particular starting a busy early schedule.
The Cardinals were slated to play back-to-back games on the first two days of competition, but the girls contest against St. Joseph Christian (Mo.) in the home...
For a team featuring a lot of first-year starters last season, the Jackson Heights boys basketball team sure didn’t look like an inexperienced and tentative bunch in 2014-2015.
Given that the Cobras (21-3) went on to claim a share of the Northeast Kansas League title and make it to the Class 2A...
In some ways, the past couple of seasons have been like a prolonged period of growing pains for the Holton girls basketball team. With several upperclassmen back to lead the team in 2015-2016, though, HHS coach Jon Holliday is hoping that pays off for a veteran group of Wildcats this winter.
“It’...
In more ways than one, Holton was in a familiar position in Salina on Saturday in the Class 4A-Division II state championship action.
The Wildcats were making their seventh state title game appearance over the weekend, but some bad habits from earlier in the season came back to bite the team...
Northeast Kansas League basketball competition is set to pick up again this Friday, as the nine NEKL squads open the 2015-2016 campaign.
On the girls side, the league teams will be chasing Valley Falls for the NEKL title once again as the defending champion returns four All-League players (Ali...
As the high school football season draws to a close with only the state championship game remaining, Holton’s final goal is fairly simple. The team just has to “finish.”
Following a comeback victory over Columbus in the sub-state round, HHS coach Brooks Barta is hoping his team has learned its...
Jackson County volleyball teams may not have been playing on the final weekend of competition this fall, but that didn’t detract from three pretty good seasons all-around.
Holton, Jackson Heights and Royal Valley all finished in the top half of their league standings this season. In fact, the...
Nobody can say Friday’s 4A-DII sub-state contest between Holton and Columbus was lacking for drama, as for the second year in a row one yard and one point were the only things separating the winner and the loser.
The stakes were admittedly higher this time around, with a spot in the state...
At first glance, the score of Friday’s Class 2-1A sectional contest between the football teams from Jackson Heights and Olpe tells a one-sided tale.
For much of the game, however, the Cobras and Eagles were locked in a back and forth battle in Olpe and Heights was within striking distance of the...
Cross country competition for the Jackson County boys this season was defined by team success as none of the three teams had a true “front-runner,” but the Cobras and Panthers in particular showed a penchant for being able to “pack it in” no matter the size of the race.
In Jackson Heights’ case,...
