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GCHS girls’ golf squad qualifies for 6A state

LIBERAL - It may not have been the best day on the golf course for the Garden City High School girls’ team, but it was still good enough for them to advance to next week’s Class 6A state tournament in Hutchinson.Just minutes before the first groups were tee off at mid-morning, the weather changed, temperatures were chilly and the wind switched to the northeast, wreaking havoc with almost all scores.On Tuesday, the Buffs shot their second highest score of the season, a 367, at Willow Tree Golf Course in Liberal, good enough for runner-up to Maize’s 334 and 10 shots ahead of the third-place Wichita Southeast Golden Buffaloes, which secured the third and final team qualifying spot.“We got off to a rough start when the wind picked up right from the start,” GCHS Head Coach Chris Duncan said.

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Buffalo boys’ soccer finish WAC with loss to Hays

The biggest thing Garden City High School boys’ soccer coach Jose Vital wanted to accomplish in Thursday night’s concluding Western Athletic Conference match at home against Hays was to gain some momentum as the Class 6A postseason playoffs loom on the horizon.That’s what he wanted his Buffaloes, who have struggled offensively all season, to build on against the Indians at Buffalo Stadium.Once again, however, the Buffs came up a goal (or two) short in their bid for their fifth win of the season in a 3-2 loss to the Indians at Buffalo Stadium.

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GCHS opens Unified Bowling season at Great Bend

GREAT BEND - The Unified Bowling season opened Thursday in Great Bend for the Garden City Buffaloes as 16 different teams, comprised of either three or four bowlers, competed.Great Bend won the event with a six-game total of 932 while the Buffs’ team of Athen Villarreal, DJ Alvarado and Saul Resendiz placed second with a score of 845.That group’s individual games consisted of scores of 196-135-114-162-109-126.

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GCHS boys continue winnings ways in XC meet

SALINA - The pattern by now is well established for the Garden City High School cross country teams.Hayden Nemechek, Trevor Fry, Taran Castro and Jayden Smith all finished among the top 10 runners in Saturday’s Salina Central Invitational at Bill Burke Park to lead the Buffs to the team title with 33 points.Meanwhile, senior Cate Wiese continued her weekly improvement in times and places as she took fourth overall with one of only four times under 20 minutes for the 5,000-meter run.Nemechek won the boys’ division with a time of 15:33.47 to nip Junction City’s Ethan Fontaine, who clocked in at 15:34.60.

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GCHS football routs Wichita Southeast, 48-0

It had been a rough four weeks for the Garden City High School football team.They had barely beaten a winless Wichita Heights team on the road, 14-13, then lost to Western Athletic Conference foes Hays and Liberal to see their season record dip to 1-4.On Friday night, though, for the 2024 Homecoming match-up against another winless Wichita team – Southeast – the Buffaloes found the right elixir to cure their ills in a 48-0 romp over the Golden Buffaloes.It was a night for the home ‘herd’ to run wild – and they did and it didn’t take long for them to get out of the pen.On the first scrimmage play of the game after the Buffs took the opening kickoff, sophomore Ryder Carr zipped around right end, cut back once and outraced the other buffaloes to the end zone on a 64-yard scamper.

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Buffalo volleyball goes 2-3 at McPherson

MCPHERSON - After winning their first two matches on Saturday at the McPherson Invitational, the Garden City High School volleyball squad was unable to finish off the five-match marathon, falling in their final three matches.The 2-3 mark left the Buffs with a 17-12 season record and they will return home for a big week to cap off the regular season.

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Buffaloes slip by Great Bend, 2-1, in WAC action

GREAT BEND - There has not been much breathing room on either side of the scoreboard for the Garden City High School boys’ soccer team during the 2024 season.With Thursday night’s 2-1 squeaker on the road against Great Bend’s Panthers, this time producing a victory for the tough-luck Buffs, it improved their season record to 4-8-1 overall and 3-3-1 in the Western Athletic Conference.In the 13 matches to date, only a 2-0 road loss two days earlier in Liberal had produced more than a one-goal difference in the outcome.

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