November 2022

Week one of the state high school football playoffs is in the books with area teams playing on Thursday and Friday. The next round of games, regionals, will be played on Friday of this week.

Ingalls and Meade High Schools’ volleyball teams saw their hopes of a state championship come to an end Friday in the pool play portion of different state tournaments. Ingalls made the long drive to the eastern half of the state to White auditorium in Emporia to play in the Class 1A Division II state tournament. The Bulldogs entered the tournament as the eighth seed with an overall record of 23-- 13. In pool play, Ingalls fell to Lebo 13-25 and 13-25, then was defeated by Beloit-St. John’s/Tipton 19-25 and 19-25. Hutchinson’s Central Christian dealt the Bulldogs their final defeat of the tourney, in a close match, 2325 and 20-25. For Meade it was a short trip north to play in the Class 2A state tournament at United Wireless Arena in Dodge City. The Buffaloes entered the tournament as the fourth seed with an overall record of 31-7.

HIGH SCHOOL (Oct. 28) Haysville-Campus 14, GCHS 35 Dodge City 0, Washburn Rural 36 Ulysses 8, Wamego 56 Smoky Valley 6, Scott City 41 Pratt 47, Holcomb 34 Hugoton 7, Cheney 28Cimarron 7, Russell 58 Norton 28, Lakin 14 KJCCC (Oct.

Basketball: 7:30 p.m., GCCC men at NM Military Institute. WEDNESDAY, NOV.

LAWRENCE Sometimes, it is difficult to assess just how one sporting event actually went for a team. Perhaps that is one way to describe the Garden City High School boys’ and girls’ cross county teams following their performance at the Class 6A state championship in Lawrence at Rim Rock Farm. The Buffs’ boys, with sights set on a top three team finish, and senior Devin Chappel eyeing a top five individual finish, came up just short of those goals as the Buffs placed fifth in the team standings with 127 points and Chappel was seventh individually with a time of 15:58.8. Comparatively, in 2021, at Augusta’s 4-Mile Creek Resort, Chappel was fourth individually and the Buffs’ team placed 10th. Shawnee Mission East won both the team title with 65 points and the individual crown by Wyatt Haughton, who ran a stunning 14:59.7 time, believed to be the first sub-15 minute race at Rim Rock by a high school runner. Then, about an hour after the boys ran over the difficult Rim Rock layout of the 5-kilometer race, the girls’ squad took off and eventually placed eighth among the 12 competing teams, a big step forward from their 12th place standing in 2021.