Sports

Two boy tennis teams in the TSnews coverage area won meets during their first week of competition. On March 28, the Eisenhower Tigers tied for first with quadrangular host Wellington.

The Cheney Cardinals opened the new golf season with a win at the fourteam Pratt Invitational last Thursday, playing 18 holes. The Cardinals’ top four scorers finished back-toback, taking third through sixth place.

Garden Plain track and field athletes started the new season last Friday at the Andale “Bear Schmidt” Invitational, named after the long-time head track coach at Andale High School. The Owls put in a number of good performances in a tough field that included Collegiate, Hesston, Valley Center and Kingman.

TSnews The three girls soccer teams in the TSnews coverage area are all in the midst of tournaments this week. Goddard and Eisenhower are co-hosting a tournament that began Monday.

TSnews The CSA Reds baseball team did not take long to earn its first win. The Reds (1-3) won a 1310 slugfest with Moundridge in the first game of a doubleheader Monday, pounding out 12 hits and rallying from a 10-8 deficit in the final three innings.

TSnews The Clearwater Indians and Andale-Garden Plain split their season-opening softball doubleheader Monday at Clearwater, with the visitors winning the first game 7-5 and Clearwater taking the second 9-5. In the opener, AGP scored twice in the top of the fifth inning and three times in the top of the sixth to take a 6-1 lead, then held off a late Clearwater rally to take the win.