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Buffalo boys’ soccer drops three 1-0 matches

OVERLAND PARK - When the schedule was confirmed for the 2024 fall season, Garden City High School boys’ soccer coach Jose Vital knew the early season was going to be something akin to playing all-star teams.First, there was the three matches at the Wichita South Titan Classic that resulted in one win and two losses, all by one goal and two of which were decided in overtime.Second, in the just the second week of the season, the Buffs traveled to Overland Park to compete in the three-day St.

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Buffaloes struggle in opening loss to Manhattan

What head coach Brian Hill had hoped for never materialized in the Garden City High School football opener Friday night at Buffalo Stadium.The final score of 57-21 against another highly-regarded Manhattan Indian team doesn’t tell the entire story as the Buffs saw the final 24 minutes of the second half include a running clock.That came about after trailing 57-0 at halftime when the 45-point rule went into effect just before the break.

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GCHS boys’ XC wins Great Bend meet

GREAT BEND - Three top 10 finishers, led by senior Hayden Nemechek’s fourth-place finish, paced the Garden City Buffaloes’ boys’ cross country to the team title on Thursday at Great Bend’s Lake Barton Golf Course.It was the season opening meet for the Buffs and another senior, Cate Wiese, paced the girls’ squad to a third-place finish by placing sixth overall.Nemechek, the defending Western Athletic Conference champion and WAC Runner of the Year from 2023, clocked a 16:18.03 for his fourth-place finish as Southeast of Saline’s Brayden Walker won with a time of 16:08.58.Teammates Trevor Fry (16:37.76) and Taran Castro (16:44.06) placed fifth and seventh, respectively, as the Buffs totaled 53 points.

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Buffalo volleyball splits home triangular

Most coaches will tell you that they see the biggest improvement from the first matches of the season to the second date when they play.Perhaps that is the way Garden City High School girls’ volleyball coach Trista Bailey saw her team’s split of a triangular on Thursday night at The Garden with Western Athletic Conference foes Liberal and Great Bend.In their opening match with Liberal’s Reds, the Buffs stormed out to a 10-1 lead and were never headed in a 25-9 romp before rallying from a 17-20 deficit in the second set to prevail 25-22.Against Great Bend, the defending WAC champions, it was just a reversal from the Liberal match at the visiting Panthers hit the Buffs with a 7-1 start, led 12-4 and 16-5 before the hosts made a bit of a mini-run only to drop a 17-25 set to begin the final best 2-of-3 match.Perhaps the mini-run in the late stages of Set 1 enabled the Buffs to begin Set 2 in a hotly-contest battle.

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