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It may not be 11 straight, but with Holton High School’s golf team entering the season as three-time defending league champs there’s room to draw comparisons to a very successful Kansas basketball program.
Like the Jayhawks, the HHS wildcats seem to reload rather than rebuild, though Holton has a...
This past weekend, the first of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, was nuts, but for an entirely different reason than usual. The lack of major upsets meant the second and third round of the tourney was like a Mounds candy bar. Some teams can make you feel like a nut. This year, very few...
With the conclusion of the high school basketball season last weekend, several leagues released their All-League teams this week and the Big Seven and Twin Valley leagues were among those groups. Multiple Wildcats and Panthers made it onto the Big Seven All-League roster and a handful of Cardinals...
MANHATTAN—Experience can be so crucial in state tournament competition, no matter the sport. So, while the Jackson Heights and Central Plains boys basketball teams entered their Class 2A state quarterfinal game on nearly equal footing as far as tournament experience was concerned, individual...
DODGE CITY— Going into Class 1A-DII state basketball action, Wetmore girls coach Perry Smith noted his team was ready to embrace its underdog role, especially after surviving the tough Twin Valley League schedule this season.
The Cardinals proved how much bite they had in quarterfinal action on...
In a very literal sense, this year’s Jackson Heights boys basketball team is the “little brother” to last year’s squad after the team saw five senior starters graduate last spring.
Four of those starters from last year (Cole Olberding, Preston Richter, Trevin Jacobsen and Cameron Thomas) have...
After narrowly missing out on a match-up at the midseason Tonganoxie Invitational basketball tournament, it seemed like the Holton and Atchison boys were on a collision course when it came to sub-state competition.
The fifth and eighth-ranked teams in Class 4A-DII, respectively, met in Saturday’s...
As well as everything went for the Holton girls on offense in Friday’s sub-state semifinal game, things quickly turned sour for the Wildcats in Saturday’s championship game against Jeff West.
The Wildcats still flashed that trademark defensive intensity, which kept the team in the game in the...
Defeating the impressive Lynn Bulldogs 47-45 in the sub-state championship game on Saturday, the Lady Cardinal basketball team is state bound! The Wetmore High School team will travel to Dodge City to play Beliot St. Johns/Tipton in the Class 1A state tournament’s first round of competition on...
While a third straight team championship might not have been in the cards for the Holton wrestling team at the 4A state tournament in Salina over the weekend, what the Holton wrestlers did on Friday and Saturday may have been equally as impressive.
For the third straight year, the Wildcats...
