ROUNDBALL CLASSIC
A suffocating defense and just enough offense was good enough for the Garden City Buffs’ boys to beat the visiting Holcomb Longhorns 68-53 in the Roundball Classic finale Saturday night at The Garden.
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GCHS boys take 2nd at Colorado tourney
From week one to week two of the 2021-2022 wrestling season, Garden City High School coach Carlos Prieto had wanted to see gradual improvement that one would come to expect this early in the campaign.
Holcomb bounces Buffaloes
After leading by double digits early, the Buffs’ girls fell short in Saturday’s 49-47 loss to their Finney County rivals, the Holcomb Longhorns to conclude the Roundball Classic. The Buffs, down by as many as seven in the fourth quarter, fought back with clutch 3-pointers and turnovers to pull within reach in the final minute.
LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL RESULTS
Saturday’s results BOYS Holcomb 53, Garden City 68 Scott City 55, Liberal 63 Life Prep 65, Coronado, Colo. 62 Trinity 40, Olathe North 44 McClave, Colo., 55, Greeley Co.
SPORTS ON TV
(All times Eastern) CHL HOCKEY 1 p.m. NHLN — Playoff: Leksands IF at Frolunda Gothenburg, Quarterfinal Leg 2 3:30 p.m.
Garden City’s Cervantes takes gold at Great Bend
The Garden City High School girls’ wrestling team tackled some of the top competition in Kansas on Saturday when they competed in the Great Bend Invitational. The Buffs, who are ranked No.
Kansas wins with veterans, roaring crowd
LAWRENCE — The students who camped out all week at Allen Fieldhouse, they were on Christian Braun’s mind Saturday after Kansas men’s basketball’s 102-65 shellacking of rival Missouri. The junior guard had just been talking about how he hadn’t felt that amount of passion inside an arena from a crowd in a long time.
GCHS drops contest to state powerhouse Eagles
Garden City High School’s girls’ basketball team knew that its openinground opponent, Olathe North, in the 2021 Clarion Inn Roundball Classic would be a monumental challenge. And for a multitude of reasons that just how it played out as the Buffs were dropped 46-19 on Thursday night at The Garden to see their early season record slip to 0-3.
ON TAP
SATURDAY, DEC. 11 Basketball: Roundball Classic - All games at GCHS - 10 a.m., girls - Trinity vs Olathe North, Liberal vs Coronado; 11:45 a.m.