Hatchet stays in Dodge after Buffaloes’ lopsided loss
DODGE CITY - Very rarely in his 15 years as head football coach at Garden City High School has Brian Hill’s Buffaloes lost a one-sided decision to rival Dodge City in The Hatchet Game.
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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.
FACT combines art and autism awareness
First responders, Garden City High School and Fort Hays State University art students and people from Mosaic gathered on Thursday night to create art.
Buffalo boys’ XC wins fourth-straight WAC crown
HAYS - If everything was going to run according to form, the Garden City High School’ boys’ cross country team and the Great Bend girls were the favorites to capture, respectively, each school’s fourth straight Western Athletic Conference title on Thursday at Hays’ Ellis County Fairgrounds.That’s exactly what happened.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.