Title-game tribulations

NEWTON - Every time the Otis-Bison High School football team scored a touchdown, the B&B Baileyville Falcons were there to answer with a score of their own.

Hutchinson’s dynasty comes to halt

HUTCHINSON - For the first time in seven years, there will be a new Class 5A state champion in high school football.

Small linemen means big advantage for Cougars

The Otis-Bison High School line is made up of seniors and juniors while B&B Baileyville has sophomores to line up against them.

Cougars prepare for tough fight with B&B

There is only one thing that Otis-Bison head coach Travis Starr and B&B Baileyville head coach Steve Tiernan agree on for sure: Saturday's Eight-Man Division-II state championship game will be a tough, hard-fought game.

Legacy

OTIS - Kevin Wissman led the Otis-Bison High School football team with 66 tackles on defense.

Cougars: Going to state

OTIS - The future holds only one thing for certain for the Otis-Bison High School football team: a trip to the Eight-Man Division-II state championship.

Cougars: One win away

OTIS - When the Otis-Bison High School football team steps on the field tonight at 7 to clash with Ashland, it will be with best defense among the final four in the Eight-Man Division-II state playoffs.

Community Support

OTIS - For the past two years, the Otis-Bison High School football team has found itself in the Eight-Man Division-II state playoffs.

Four teams left in Eight-Man Division-II playoffs

The Otis-Bison High School football team is still standing after two rounds of the Eight-Man Division-II state playoffs.

Otis-Bison advances to state semifinal

BIRD CITY - The Otis-Bison High School gridiron gang left Bird City with another lop-sided victory.

Playoff pitfalls for Panthers

Wichita's Bishop Carroll Catholic High School's punishing defense was everything as advertised against Great Bend Friday night during a Class 5A opening-round state playoff game.

Otis-Bison faces lethal ground game

The Otis-Bison High School football team travels to Bird City on Saturday to challenge Cheylin in the second round of the Eight-Man Division-II state playoffs.

Playoffs Payoff

The Big 3 that rule the roost in high school football in the western part of the state for Class 5A, according to Great Bend head coach Bo Black, is Hutchinson, McPherson and Bishop Carroll.

Passing game has been staple in Panthers’ playbook

The Great Bend High School Panthers could care less. They'll gladly don the Underdog cape once again tonight.

Panthers scheduling pays off

Remember the talk of Great Bend High School's schedule strength? As it turned out, the Panthers' 2010 football schedule was indeed the toughest in the state. The growing pains of losing to the likes of Class 6A powerhouses Wichita Heights and Dodge City, along with 5A St. Thomas Aquinas, ultimately paid off for the Panthers in the form of a first-round home game in the state playoffs. When Great Bend (4-4) entertains Bishop Carroll (7-2) ...

Indians to compete in state tourney

The Larned High School boys' golf team will compete on Monday morning in the Class 4A state tournament at Cherry Oaks Golf Course in Cheney.

Mustangs win 1A regional track title

ST. JOHN - Tanner Tranbarger, Henry Penner and Isaac Seibert led the Macksville High School boys' track and field team to a Class 1A regional championship on Friday.

PANTHERS PRIDE

SALINA - On Friday in a Class 5A regional track and field meet, Great Bend High School pole vaulters Chris Burley, Selam Ball and Hannah Middleton - along with throwers Jayce Brack and Nick Warren - qualified for the upcoming state championships in Wichita.

Haney making first Class 5A state golf appearance on Monday

OVERLAND PARK - Chance Haney got it right the second time around.

TAKING FLIGHT

It will be the high-flying pole vaulters from Great Bend High School taking to the stage today at Salina District Stadium - site of a Class 5A regional track and field meet.

Hays beats Lady Panthers in regional play

HAYS - The Great Bend High School girls' soccer team closed their season with a 5-0 loss against Hays in a opening-round game of a Class 5A regional tournament.

Ellinwood awards high school athletes

Indians close season with 10-2 loss to Pratt

HUGOTON - The Larned High School Indians had their season close in a Class 4A regional baseball tournament on Wednesday afternoon.

Lady Cardinals fall against Pratt

ULYSSES - Things just wouldn't go right at the plate for the Hoisington High School softball team on Wednesday afternoon.

Class 5A regional track meet set for Friday

It all comes down to one day in qualifying for the upcoming Class 6-1A state high school track and field meet, set for next weekend at Cessna Stadium on the Wichita State University campus.

GBHS qualifies seven swimmers for Topeka

Great Bend High School had seven swimmers qualify for the Class 5-1A state swim meet, which will start on today with the diving competition at Hummer Sports Complex in Topeka.

Tigers win regional title, beat Ark Valley-CTL foe Newton

In Tuesday's Class 5A regional baseball tournament at the Great Bend Sports Complex, the Ark Valley-Chisolm Trail League had the upper hand against Western Athletic Conference opponents.

UNFORTUNATE END

Goddard High School had momentum heading into the Class 5A regional softball tournament championship game on Tuesday evening at the Great Bend Sports Complex.

CRUNCH TIME

Conventional wisdom tells us that Great Bend High School should meet Hays in a Class 5A regional championship tonight at 6 inside the Great Bend Sports Complex.

Great Bend’s Bretz no-hits Liberal in semifinals, 10-0

The Great Bend High School softball team made short work of Liberal - again.