Panthers finish runner-up to Newton in 12-team tourney

DOUGLASS - The talented 12-team Douglass Goodwill wrestling tournament on Saturday found the Great Bend High School Panthers finishing second to Newton.

Lady Cardinals beat Lady Indians

LARNED - Larned kept pace with Hoisington in the first eight minutes, trailing 15-14.

TOO DEEP OF HOLE

MANHATTAN - If you're looking for a turning point in Great Bend High School's girls' basketball matchup with Manhattan, glance no further than first-half action during Saturday's matinee session at the MHS gymnasium.

Holloway, Indians pull away from turnover-plagued GBHS

MANHATTAN - This was one that maybe got away from the Great Bend High School boys' basketball team.

Tigers’ guards give Cardinals troubles in classic semifinal

LARNED - Talk about being in the right place at the right time.

Spearville uses size in win over Larned

LARNED - It was an uphill struggle for the Larned High School girls' basketball team.

JOHNSON & JOHNSTON

JUNCTION CITY - Lulls during the middle portion of Friday night's game with Junction City High School threw a wrench in the Great Bend Panthers' works.

Four games in, GBHS has already won three

JUNCTION CITY - Only four games into the season, the Great Bend High School Lady Panthers have already matched last year's win output.

TIME TO RATCHET UP

After playing three games in three days last week in the season-opening Hays City Shoot-Out, the Great Bend High School varsity basketball teams play back-to-back games against Class 6A schools, starting tonight and finishing up late Saturday afternoon.

Cardinals defeat Bearcats 70-12 in dual

ELLSWORTH - The Hoisington High School wrestling team seized a 70-12 victory over the Ellsworth Bearcats in a dual on Thursday night.

FALLING SHORT

LARNED - With 30 seconds remaining in the high school basketball game, Gavin Vink sank a 3-pointer to put Ellinwood ahead of Kinsley 53-52 in a consolation-bracket game of Larned's Keady Basketball Classic.

Prep football

Panthers take home second at swimming invitational

Great Bend High School's boys' swim team finished second in its home waters at Kirkman Activity Center on Tuesday afternoon.

McClures lead Stafford boys past Pratt-Skyline

PRATT - In their first game of the season, the Stafford High School boys' basketball team had four players in double figures as it beat Pratt-Skyline 72-48 on Tuesday night.

St. John’s defense shreds Ellinwood

LARNED - Defensive pressure was the name of the game on Tuesday night for St. John High School's girls' basketball team.

Rozel to be site of volleyball tournament Saturday

ROZEL - Pawnee Heights High School is the site of a high school volleyball tournament Saturday.

Hoisington girls win Larned golf tourney

LARNED - Hoisington's Madie Wilborn finished fourth (89) and teammate Sydney Boxberger placed fifth (90) to lead the Cardinals (376) to a three-stroke victory over ...

Western Athletic Conference football stats

YPG PASS RUSH

DEFENSIVE TEST

When Great Bend football coach Erin Beck sent out his weekly HUDL tape, Wichita Northwest's high-powered offense looks like a video game.

Area Football Week 3: Central Plains defense prepares for game plan

Central Plains has enjoyed recent football success, but the No. 2 state-ranked Eight-Man 2 Otis-Bison Cougars have beaten the Oilers in three of the past ...

HHS golf finishes second at Kingman

KINGMAN - Hoisington's Trinity Dolezal placed fifth with a 55 at the Kingman Invitational Thursday.

GBMS volleyball wins pair on Monday

HAYS - The Great Bend Middle School volleyball teams won two of three matches Monday.

LHS sweeps Ellinwood Tournament

By Jim Misunas

Central Kansas League volleyball

CKL

Central Plains Oilers win volleyball title

ELLSWORTH - The Central Plains Oilers captured the Ellsworth Round-Robin Tournament with a 5-0 record. The Oilers outlasted Class 4A-Division 2 Nickerson 20-25, 25-20, 25-21 for ...

Vikings sweep Panthers, Eagles

ELLINWOOD - Red-hot Smoky Valley swept Great Bend 35-37, 20-25, 25-16 and Ellinwood 25-19, 25-19 in a volleyball triangular Monday.

Larned, Hoisington runners place

HESSTON - Hoisington ninth-grader Danye Yott (18:49.1) won the Hesston Classic cross country race for ninth-graders. Larned's Gage Myers placed eighth (20:51 ...

Great Bend golf finishes third

GARDEN CITY - Great Bend finished third (332) and Allison Neeland placed seventh (75) in the shortened Garden City Invitational at Buffalo Dunes Golf Course.

High school sports calendar

TUESDAY

Ellinwood’s Strecker leads Eagles at Wamego

WAMEGO - Ellinwood's Joanna Strecker placed 11th (21:34.4) in Saturday's Wamego Invitational, the site of the Class 2A state cross country meet ...