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Unbeaten Panthers too much for Buffaloes

Not long after the Garden City High School football team finished its loss to Western Athletic Conference champion Great Bend on Friday night (42-6), they learned their Week 9 KSHSAA Play-In game would be against a familiar for in the Dodge City Red Demons.It had only been a week earlier when the Buffaloes lost the coveted Hatchet to the Demons at Dodge City (40-14), so perhaps an opportunity to avenge that loss will be the right prescription for a Buffaloes team that has struggled all season.The Buffs and Red Demons will kick-off their rematch (not for the Hatchet) at 7 p.m.

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GCHS boys’ soccer has season-high in scoring

In a season of frustration at the ability to score goals, the Garden City Buffaloes’ boys’ soccer team scored the most goals of the year in Thursday night’s 3-0 non-conference victory over favored Wichita North at Buffalo Stadium.In what is now a 5-10-1 regular season record, the Buffs secured their first win by more than one goal and only for the second time all year, the match was decided by more than one goal.Now, the Buffs will await the official pairings to be announced on today, Oct.

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GCHS’ Savolt garners top 20 finish at 6A state golf

HUTCHINSON – Garden City High School sophomore Brooke Savolt capped off a successful second season of high school golf on Tuesday when she finished tied for 18th at the Class 6A state golf tournament at Hutchinson’s Carey Park Golf Course.Savolt completed the 36-hole event with a two-day total of 163 (75-88) and brought home the team’s first top 20 medal since Ryann Warren in 2021.Another sophomore, Megan Burr, made the cut for the final round and finished with identical scores of 90 for a 180 total.

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GCHS girls’ tennis competes at 6A state

PRAIRIE VILLAGE - The Class 6A state tournament is always a reality check for the Garden City High School tennis teams – girls or boys – and Friday’s first day at Prairie Village’s Harmon Tennis Complex was no exception.The Buffs did manage to secure three wins, all by their respective doubles teams, and finished in 16th place in the team standings out of the 23 teams entered.Still, the goal has always been to advance to Saturday’s final day with an opportunity to claim a medal among the top 12 finishers.

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GCHS takes second in WAC volleyball tourney

Perhaps it was fitting that when the final matches of the 2024 Western Athletic Conference volleyball championship ended late afternoon Saturday Garden City High School occupied the runner-up spot to unbeaten Great Bend.While Great Bend’s Panthers were going through the round-robin unbeaten with a hard-fought 4-0 mark, the Buffaloes, rival Dodge City and Hays all finished with 2-2 records while Liberal was held winless at 0-4.The tiebreaker formula utilized to determine second, third and fourth, was calculate each team’s number of sets won divided by the number of sets played and the Buffs finished 6-of-11 (.545) while Hays was next with 5-of-10 (.500) and Dodge City after with 5-of-11 (.454), allowing the Buffs to take second, Hays third and the Red Demons fourth.The irony of the entire day for GCHS Coach Trista Bailey’s team was that after losing to rival Dodge City in the opening match of the day, four hours later they were on the court taking on Great Bend with a golden opportunity to win the WAC title for the first time since 2020.Things didn’t look rosy for the Buffs as they lost to their rival Demons in another three-set heart-stopper (25-7, 20-25, 20-25).

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