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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...
Moving into postseason play, Jackson Heights boys basketball coach Chris Brown said one of the most important things for his team was to understand the sudden death implications of sub-state competition.
If Tuesday’s sub-state contest at home against McLouth was any indication, then the message...
Early in Tuesday’s sub-state opener, the Jackson Heights girls basketball team seemed to catch lightning in a bottle.
The Cobras were swarming the Seahawks of Bishop Seabury early and players like Payton Thomas and Jordan Wells helped the team assert itself in the post while storming out to a 19-...
Members of the Jackson Heights student section, including (front row, left to right) Adam Brey, Korby Strube, Zane Richter, Lane Slocum, Austin Sauvage and Kyler Vance, got dressed up and cheered on the girls basketball team in its sub-state opener against Bishop Seabury on Tuesday night. Both...
Champions aren’t born, they’re made, though when it comes to Holton High School senior wrestler Lucas Lovvorn, the son of Mike and Kim Lovvorn of Holton, the case could be made for both schools of thought.
Already a 15-year veteran of the sport, Lovvorn seemingly had little choice whether he...
