Sports

The Central Plains League will be short a school and team when the 2025-26 school year begins. As reported by the Wichita Eagle, the remaining nine CPL schools voted unanimously to expel the The Independent School Panthers from the league.

TSnews In the movie “Bull Durham,” catcher Crash Davis once said, “Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose (and) sometimes it rains.” The Haysville Aviators baseball team experienced all three last week, as last Tuesday’s game with the Kansas Cannons was suspended because of rain, then completed the next day with a 7-5 Aviators win. Later that day, Haysville suffered its first loss of the season when it dropped a 7-5 decision to the Cannons.

TSnews All-league honors have been released by the Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League and Central Plains League following the conclusion of the 2024 softball season. The Campus Colts in Class 6A and the Andale-Garden Plain Indians-Owls in Class 4A ended their seasons as State runners-up, while the Clearwater Indians in 4A and the Cheney Cardinals in 3A earned State berths.

The Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League has named its all-league soccer players for the 2024 girls season. Players from the Campus Colts, Eisenhower Tigers and Goddard Lions made the list.

TSnews The summer collegiate baseball season is in full swing in south-central Kansas as the Hayville Aviators of the Jayhawk Collegiate League and the Clearwater-based Kansas Curve of Kansas Collegiate League Baseball have taken to the field this spring. The Aviators are off to a 3-0 start this spring.

TSnews With the baseball season at its end, the Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League and the Central Plains League have released their all-league selections. Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League In the AVCTL Div.

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TSnews LAWRENCE – The Campus Colts softball team was 2-1/2 innings away from bringing home a State championship. So close, but yet so far away.

SALINA – The Andale-Garden Plain softball team learned the hard way why Wamego Raiders hurler Peyton Hardenburger is considered to be one of the best high school pitchers in the country in last Friday’s Class 4A State championship game.

TSnews A trio of gold medals plus two runner-up performances led the Clearwater Indians girls track and field team to its third straight top-3 finish at the Class 4A State meet. The Indians finished third with 51 points this year.