Football

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.

LIBERAL - With five minutes, 24 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter of Friday night’s Western Athletic Conference road battle in Liberal between the Garden City High School and the host Redskins, it was a nail-biting 14-6 score in favor of the Redskins.However, in the next two minutes, 39 seconds, things went topsy-turvy for the Buffs which resulted in a 23-6 setback to their WAC for and thus extended the struggles that has beset this year’s squad as the Buffs fell to 1-4 overall and 0-2 in the WAC.“I think the biggest takeaway is that we didn’t win the big moments,” GCHS head coach Brian Hill said.

When Hays’ Ian McGuire broke free for a 16-yard touchdown run at the 9:09 mark of the second quarter, it not only snapped a scoreless battle with the Garden City High School, but it was a play that altered the remainder of the game.On that same TD run by McGuire, Garden City senior starting quarterback/safety Ethan Gomez suffered an injury that took him off the field in the medical vehicle and likely ended his final season on the gridiron.That was the assessment from head coach Brian Hill on Sunday, two days removed from what became a 41-8 loss to the Indians in the first Western Athletic Conference battle for both teams on Friday at Buffalo Stadium.“It was a major injury, that’s about all I can say,” Hill said.