Sports

Body ABOVE LEFT: Clearwater’s Rylee Douglass, top, and Eisenhower’s Ava Malone face off in an early match at Wellington on Saturday. ABOVE RIGHT: Goddard’s Brooklyn Simpson works to pin an opponent from Wellington.

Body TSnews The Goddard Lions girls wrestling team headed down to Wellington last Saturday for a tournament and had five wrestlers finish in the top five, including one champion. Leading the way for the Lions was Brooklyn Simpson (110 pounds), who won a title at the tournament.

Body TSnews The Garden Plain Owls had two wrestlers place in the top four last weekend at the 31st Annual Eureka Invitational. Leading the way was Nate Eck (106 pounds), who finished second, while Carter Tatom (144) won a pair of matches and finished fourth.

Body TSnews The Cheney Cardinals girls wrestling team had two girls place in the top five when the squad competed at the Osborne Girls Invitational last weekend in northwestern Kansas.

Body TSnews The Campus Colts girls wrestling team showed how far it has advanced in just one season as it took second last Thursday at the Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League Division I dual meet.

Body TSnews The Clearwater Indians wrestling team had a solid performance at the 31st Annual Eureka Invitational last weekend despite sickness depleting the Indians’ numbers.

Body TSnews The Eisenhower Tigers had several wrestlers at tournaments in Hays (boys) and Wellington (girls) last weekend.

Body TSnews The Eisenhower Tigers girls basketball team went 2-1 in their midseason tournament last week, finishing fifth in Chanute’s Ralph Miller Classic. The campaign opened on Thursday with a 54-47 loss to Coffeyville’s Field Kindley High school.

Body TSnews The Argonia Raiders boys basketball team could not overcome a rough second quarter as the Raiders fell 49-39 to the West Elk Patriots last Saturday in the fifth-place game at the South Central Border League Tournament at Cowley College in Arkansas City.

Body TSnews The Garden Plain Owls finished in the fifth place at the Adolph Rupp Invitational in Halstead, closing out the tournament with two straight wins. On Saturday, the Owls downed the Liberal Indians 59-41 in the fifth-place game.