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Drills open Monday

High School fall sports practices for Great Bend High School, along with area schools, begin on Monday at various locations in the Golden Belt.

August 10, 2011 | | Local Sports

TWO-SPORT ATHLETE

Jennifer Allende has taken an unusual path in becoming a dual sport athlete - soccer and basketball - at Barton Community College for the 2011-12 school year.

August 10, 2011 | Mack McClure | Local Sports

Jayhawks look to improve after rocky first season under Gill

Last year was University of Kansas head football coach Turner Gill's first season with the Jayhawks.

August 09, 2011 | Kevin Price | Local Sports

Jacobs wins

WICHITA - Austin Jacobs, a junior-to-be and a tennis player at Great Bend High School, took in the 2011 Kansas Novice Tournament of Champions on Saturday, Aug. 6, at Wichita Country Club.

August 09, 2011 | | Local Sports

Larned notebook

LARNED - The Larned High School football team will be adding some new kids to the mix this season.

August 09, 2011 | Kevin Price | Local Sports

Kansas State seeking gains in passing game

MANHATTAN - Kansas State is looking forward to throwing the football more this fall, and it has two integral parts of the passing game that were hurt last season returning.

August 08, 2011 | Mack McClure | Local Sports

NEW-LOOK CATS

MANHATTAN - Due in large part to Miami Dolphins draft pick Daniel Thomas, Kansas State was ranked as the second-best rushing team in the Big 12 Conference last season.

August 06, 2011 | Mack McClure | Local Sports

Sometimes it's about learning from the best. For all of the Class 5A state track and field meet medals Alex Hartig won during her star-studded career, she hearkens back to her freshman year at Great Bend High School as a defining moment. Hartig, a redshirt freshman at Arizona State, went head-to-head every day in practice her first year at GBHS with then-senior Larissa Richards, the school-record holder in the shot put (46 feet, seven inches). ...

August 06, 2011 | | Local Sports

LeRoy playing for Northwest Honkers at World Series

WICHITA - Great Bend resident and former Barton Community College relief pitcher Kyle LeRoy is playing for the Northwest Honkers, out of Seattle, in the ongoing NBC World Series at Lawrence Dumont Stadium.

August 04, 2011 | | Local Sports

Dodge City missing several playmakers in different sports

Maybe this is the year for the likes of Great Bend and Hays high schools to close the gap on Dodge City's enormous success the past couple years.

August 02, 2011 | Mack McClure | Local Sports

HELLO, NEWMAN

HAYS - Rubi Torres of Great Bend High School was not to be denied during the all-star cross-country meet held prior to the 38th Annual Kansas Shrine Bowl on Saturday night at sun-baked Lewis Field Stadium.

August 01, 2011 | Mack McClure | Local Sports

Lessard wins men’s singles

Mark Lessard, Larned High School's head tennis coach, captured first place in the men's singles competition of the Great Bend Adult Open Tennis Tournament over the weekend at Veteran's Memorial Park.

August 01, 2011 | | Local Sports

SHRINE BOWL STATISTICS

KANSAS SHRINE BOWL Saturday At Hays Lewis Field Stadium WEST 30, EAST 7 East 0 0 0 7 - 7 West 0 8 12 10 - 30 SCORING SUMMARY Second quarter W-Racette 2 run (Racette run), 6:04 Third quarter W-Smith 10 run (pass failed), 5:08 W-Hernandez 66 pass from Racette (run failed), 2:26 Fourth quarter W-Lane ...

July 31, 2011 | | Local Sports

WEST SIDE STORY

HAYS - It was a case of the West squad being bigger, faster and stronger than the East in the 38th Annual Shrine Bowl.

July 30, 2011 | Mack McClure | Local Sports

Reed to embark on new journey with Shockers

As Alex Reed prepares to leave for Wichita State University on scholarship, he departs as one of Great Bend High School's greatest track and field athletes ever.

July 30, 2011 | Mack McClure | Local Sports