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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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GCHS girls’ golf topples Hays in season opener

HAYS - Tuesday’s opening Western Athletic Conference golf tournament at Hays’ Smoky Hill Country Club offered up some surprises for the competing schools.The biggest of them all, however, was that Garden City High School captured the WAC and overall team honors in the 9-hole tournament with a four-person score of 195.While Salina Central was right on the heels of the Buffs at 196, Hays-TMP was third another 12 shots back at 208 and host Hays, the four-time defending WAC champions, was fourth at 212.It was the first defeat in a WAC tournament for the Indians since Garden City won the WAC all the way back in 2019.Leading the way was sophomore Ailynn Anderson with a 42 that placed her third individually behind Amelia Bowles of Atwood and Jaycee Oakley of Hays High, both of whom shot 41’s.Another sophomore, Brooke Savolt, was fourth with a 45 while yet another sophomore, Breckyn Lucas, tied for eighth with a 52.

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Revamped Buffalo football looks for bigger goals

As Brian Hill enters the mid-point of his second decade as head football coach of the Garden City High School Buffaloes, he sees his 2024 team as one with an opportunity to move into a stronger position both in the Western Athletic Conference and in the Class 6A playoffs.Coming off a 5-4 overall record and 2-2 mark in the WAC, Hill welcomes back a solid core of starters from that squad.The opener for the Buffs, at home on Friday at 7 p.m.

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Experience abounds for GCHS cross country teams

Every season during her two-plus decades of being the head girls’ and boys’ cross country coach, Garden City High School’s Krista Linenberger looks forward to the start of the fall campaign.Now entering her 22nd year at the program’s helm, and 26th overall (four years as an assistant to Randy Sleep), Linenberger eagerly awaits Thursday’s opening meet at Great Bend’s Lake Barton (9 a.m.

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GCHS volleyball ready to open at Hutchinson

Most coaches will tell you that the first game of a new season is always the toughest for which to prepare with many unknowns.So, when in 2023 the Kansas State High School Activities Association, Kansas’ governing body for high schools, allowed one preseason Jamboree of two opponents to be contested, many coaches around the state were elated.Count Trista Bailey as one of the biggest proponents of the one-day Jamboree.Tuesday night at The Garden, the Buffs hosted Class 3A Lakin and Class 2A Meade and Bailey’s Class 6A were glad to have someone else on the opposite side of the net.“We were able to get some of those first-game jitters out of the way,” Bailey said.

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