Sports

The Garden Plain Owls wrestling team had four wrestlers end up in the top three and finished sixth as a team after a strong performance last Saturday at the Hesston Invitational. The Owls finished with 74 1/2 points, nine and a half points behind fifth-place Chaparral and a point ahead of Pratt.

The Cheney Cardinals boys and girls wrestling teams turned in a solid performance at the Hesston Invitational with five wrestlers – four boys and a girl – placing in the top four at the event.

After struggling in their season opening tournament at Pratt to open December, the Clearwater Indians boys and girls wrestling teams bounced back with several strong performances last week at Wellington, Douglass and Chase County.

The Garden Plain Owls boys basketball team finished play in the Hesston tournament with a 48-36 win over the Nickerson Panthers on Friday in Hesston.

The Conway Springs Cardinals girls basketball team got its first win of the season last Tuesday against the host Eagles in the opeming game of the Kingman Eagle Classic, but came up short against Great Bend 42-35 last Thursday, then fell to Haven 51-32 last Saturday in the third-place game at the...

The visiting Andover Central Jaguars beat the Campus Colts girls basketball team 66-13 last week on Tuesday in Haysville. The Colts struggled to generate much offense in falling to 0-2.

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Cheney Cardinals Class 3A State Champions .

The Conway Springs Cardinals lost their season-opening game to the rival Garden Plain Owls. It was the Cardinals’ fifth straight loss to the Owls, and the second time in two years they lost their season opener to Garden Plain.

The Cardinals made an opening-week statement by putting up 34 unanswered points in a beatdown of the Eagles. The Eagles, the Class 2A State runners-up in 2022, jump-started last season with a two-touchdown win at Cheney, This year, the Cardinals left no doubt who was the better team in the rematch.