HOISINGTON - Hoisington High School enters its 2010-2011 season with five state qualifiers from last season, including sophomore Chance Demel, who finished in sixth place in the 135-pound weight class at the Class 3-2-1A state tournament last season.
When the Great Bend High School boys' basketball team entertains Pratt in the Panthers home opener Friday night, the Greenbacks will be missing some of their swagger.
The Great Bend High School boys' swimming team took first place at its swim meet held Tuesday at the Kirkman Athletic Center on the Barton Community College campus.
ELLINWOOD - Lauren Thill scored 10 of her game-high 17 points in the third quarter, leading Ellinwood High School to a 47-32 win over Wichita Northfield Tuesday night in the opening round of the Ellinwood preseason tournament.
LARNED - Despite pulling to within two points to end the first half, the Pawnee Heights High School girls' basketball team fell to Hoisington 51-29 on Tuesday after being outscored 28-8 in the second half.
VALLEY CENTER HIGH SCHOOL DUAL TOURNAMENT ROUND 1 RESULTS Gold Pool A Emporia (1-0) A Clay Center (1-0) B Andover Central (0-0) B Chanute (0-0) C Great Bend (1-0) C Wichita Heights (1-0) D Valley Center (0-1) D Derby (0-1) E Douglass (0-1) E Ottawa (0-1) MAT 4 Great Bend (54) vs Douglass (23) 103 - Ryan DesLauriers (GB) DEF OPEN 112 - Zach Schridde (GB) DEF Kordell Burch (DOU) 4-2 119 -Chris Burley (GB) ...
SALINA - After just one meet, the Great Bend High School boys' swim team has already qualified for the Class 5A state in five events.
ST. JOHN - The St. John High School girls basketball season-opening 48-26 win against Pratt-Skyline came quickly became the Teresa Wade Show on Friday night.
ST. JOHN - The St. John High School boys' basketball team overcame shooting 6-for-21 from the free throw line to edge Skyline 55-46 on Friday night.
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL Macksville 68, Ness City 50 NESS CITY - The Macksville High School boys' basketball team opened its 2010-11 season with a win over Ness City Friday night. The Mustangs were led by Kyle Bunker, who amassed 30 points, 16 rebounds and two blocks while shooting 8 for 10 from the free-throw line. Macksville will compete against Otis-Bison at 8 p.m. on Tuesday in the first round of the Larned ...
HAYS - Clutch free-throw shooting bailed out Great Bend High School after host Hays made a late run at the Lady Panthers Saturday morning during the seventh-place game of the Hays City Shoot-Out.
HAYS - The speed of the basketball game increased drastically from the previous two nights for the Great Bend High School Panthers.
In her first season as head basketball coach for Macksville High School, Kathryn McAllister guided the Lady Mustangs to a 9-11 record in 2009-10, including 4-5 in the Central Prairie League.
HAYS - Points were at a premium, and Great Bend High School and Colby spent much of Thursday's opener getting floor burns in the rough-and-tumble opening-round girls game of the Hays City Shoot-Out.
HAYS - Not only did the Great Bend High School boys' basketball team flourish running a variation of the Princeton offense Thursday afternoon during the first round of the Hays City Classic.
WICHITA - Coming off a school-record 15-foot-6 jump in a regional at Salina last week, the conditions seemed right for Chris Burley on a partly cloudy Friday afternoon at Cessna Stadium, where the vaulters had a slight breeze at their backs.
WICHITA - Great Bend High School senior Hannah Middleton finished her high school career with a fourth-place finish in the pole vault.
WICHITA - Great Bend High School underclassmen throwers Jayce Brack and Nick Warren took a trip to the podium during Friday's competition of the Class 6-1A state track and field championships at Cessna Stadium.
WICHITA - While Pedro Montoya took the center stage for Ellinwood High School, there was still some room for more in the limelight at Cessna Stadium on the Wichita State University campus.
WICHITA - During a record-setting career at Great Bend High School, senior Chris Burley broke his own school record in the pole vault four times, capped by a 15 feet, six-inch effort.
WICHITA - Jayce Brack snuck in at second place in the shot put on Saturday at the Class 6-1A state track and field championships.
WICHITA - It's obvious who the big winner was for Ellinwood High School.
WICHITA - Great Bend High School underclassmen throwers Jayce Brack and Nick Warren took a trip to the podium during Friday's competition of the Class 6-1A state track and field championships at Cessna Stadium.
WICHITA - After only competing in three meets this season with the team, Kaylie Doll left Friday's portion of the Class 6-1A state track and field championships with a Great Bend High School record and a second-place finish in the triple jump.
WICHITA - Ellinwood High School's Pedro Montoya made Friday's portion of the Class 6-1A state track and field championships a memorable one.