It all started a decade ago, when Brian Burley qualified for the Class 5A state championships in wrestling his senior campaign at Great Bend High School.
Chris Burley of Great Bend High School takes a 29-3 record and a top ranking at 112 pounds by the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association in their latest poll to the Class 5A regional tournament on Saturday in Hays.
Today, the Great Bend High School swim team will be competing in the Kansas Class 5-1A Swimming and Diving State Tournament.
By MACK McCLURE mmcclure@gbtribune.com There will be Hall of Fame ceremonies tonight at Great Bend High School's Panther Fieldhouse, when the Panthers host Dodge City in Western Athletic Conference basketball action. Tipoff for the girls game is set for 6, with the boys following at around 7:45. Hall of Fame ceremonies, featuring Jenny Allford (music educator) and Glen Opie (community service), will be held between the two games. Dodge City, ...
The Hoisington High School wrestling team will be sending 11 wrestlers to the Class 3-2-1A regional tournament in Beloit, starting tonight and continuing through Saturday.
LIBERAL - The Great Bend bowling team left Liberal with a pair of wins on Tuesday night.
GIRLS St. John 36, Quivira Heights 34 BUSHTON - The No. 8 team in Class 1A Division-II in the latest Kansas Basketball Coaches Association poll, the Quivira Heights High School girls' basketball team, fell to the No. 3 team in Class 1A Division-I, St. John, on Tuesday night. The Lady Thunderbirds closed to within one point at the end of the third quarter, but was unable to overtake the Lady Tigers. St. John was led ...
Regional wrestling Great Bend High School travels to Hays on Saturday for Class 5A regional wrestling competition, starting at 10 a.m. ... The Hoisington wrestling team heads to Beloit on Saturday for a Class 3-2-1A regional. Hoisington-Larned games bumped up one day Hoisington High School's upcoming scheduled Mid-Central Activities Association and regula-season ames with Larned, which were originally scheduled for Friday, Feb. 25, have been moved up one day to Thursday, Feb. 24, ...
GIRLS St. John 55, Kinsley 42 ST. JOHN - The St. John High School girls' basketball team put together an 18-point fourth quarter to race ahead of Kinsley on Monday night. Jamie Waters led the Lady Tigers with 18 points, including two 3-pointers and 4 of 4 from the free-throw line. Teresa Wade added 15 points as the only other St. John player in double digits. The Lady Tigers are ranked No. 3 in Class ...
BY MACK McCLURE mmcclure@gbtribune The Great Bend High School Panthers basketball team hangs its hat on trying to beat an opponent different ways. Last Saturday in a 40-39 overtime road triumph over Manhattan High, the Panthers relentlessly attacked the rim, which was a determining factor in the outcome. Against Garden City on Homecoming Friday night at Panther Fieldhouse, the Panthers used a different method, a deliberate strategy of slowing things down to slow down ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL Western Athletic Conference At Panther Fieldhouse BOYS Friday Great Bend 52, Garden City 46 GARDEN CITY (7-9, 1-4) Cody Bernbeck 3 2-2 8, Larry Gomez 0 0-0 0, Gerardo Holguin 1 0-0 2, Austin Terpstra 5 0-0 10, Jake Curran 6 0-0 16, Braden Taylor 3 2-2 8, Ivan Leal 0 0-0 0, Jeremy Ensz 1 0-0 2, Erick Ruiz 0 0-0 0. Totals 19 4-4 46. GREAT ...
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL At The Stable GIRLS Friday No. 9 Quivira Heights 52, Macksville 47 QUIVIRA HEIGHTS (10-6) Kinsey Phelan 8 7-8 28, Rebecca Stewart 0 0-0 0, Miranda Burton 5 1-2 11, Brooke Burton 1 0-0 2, Lindsey Woodmansee 1 1-2 3, Autumn Mumford 4 0-1 8. Totals 19 9-13 52. MACKSVILLE (9-7) Jena Clowers 2 1-2 5, Keira Parr 7 0-1 17, Yasnaya Susoeff 4 0-0 11, Mindy Wood 1 0-0 ...
BY MACK McCLURE mmcclure@gbtribune.com Leading by four points at halftime on Friday night at Great Bend High School and Panther Fieldhouse, GBHS had nothing go right in the second half as Garden City pulled away for a 38-25 victory. It was the first Western Athletic Conference win for Garden City (8-9, 1-4), and an agonizing loss on Homecoming Night for the Lady Panthers (6-10, 3-2). A telling statistic in a mistake-filled game where the ...
By Kevin Price kprice@gbtribune.com MACKSVILLE - The Macksville High School boys' basketball team were able to shut down Quivira Heights offensively, finishing with an 81-46 win on Friday night at The Stable. Right from the start, the Mustangs jumped on Quivira Heights, starting on a 13-2 run that lasted the first four minutes of the game. "We played very well," Macksville head coach Jeff Kuckelman said. "We shared the ball well. We shot ...
LIBERAL - The Great Bend High School had one boys' golfer qualify for the Class 5A state meet, which will be held on Monday, May 20, at Overland Park's Brookridge Golf & Fitness.
There's always howling winds in southwest Kansas, and a Class 5A boys golf regional on Monday in Liberal will be no exception.
The Great Bend High School girls' soccer team travels to Hays on Tuesday to play an opening-round game of a Class 5A regional tournament
HILLSBORO - Central Plains High School brought a young team, but the Oilers came through for a third-place finish at the Class 3-1A state tennis tournament on Saturday to take home some hardware.
HAYS - It was Thomas More Prep Marian that ruled Thursday's Mid-Central Activities Association track and field meet.
ST. JOHN - The Central Plains High School girls' track and field team won a Central Prairie League title on Thursday.
While the doubleheader didn't have postseason implications for Larned High School, the pair of non-conference baseball games meant a lot to the Great Bend Panthers.
EMPORIA - Shannon Schartz is setting out on a new adventure next spring - taking over the Great Bend Middle School tennis program.
EMPORIA - In a twist of events, where the upstart Great Bend High School's doubles teams became the talk of the Class 5A state tennis tournament's opening round, the record-setting Panthers knocked down more barriers in a season already full of milestones.