Rain Saturday night and Sunday morning brought early ends to baseball tournaments at Legends Park and Demon Field over the weekend, and play was suspended at both venues.
    The tournaments were called, and the games will not be made up this summer.

  Both Dodge City Middle School Cardinal soccer teams scored ARMS League championships Tuesday after winning both games of their league tournies at St. Mary's Soccer Complex.
    Both teams came into the tournament as the No. 1 seed after strong regular seasons.

Gene O'Connor watched a crowd of children run around, looking for Easter eggs Friday afternoon on the parade grounds of the Kansas Soldiers' Home.
    It's been a long time since O'Connor hunted chocolate eggs as a boy in Barton County, but the old fighter pilot remembers every detail of Easter in the town of Hoisington, near Great Bend.

Shae Maniates was honored by the United States Achievement Academy as a national mathematics award winner for the 2007-2008 school year at Sacred Hearth Cathedral School in Dodge City.

The Dodge City Middle School Cardinal eighth-grade boys basketball team finished its season with two losses at a tournament in Great Bend over the weekend and closed out the year with a 7-6 record.

The 2008-2009 Dodge City Parks and Recreation youth basketball league tipped off Monday with several games in the fifth and sixth grade boys division at the Sheridan Activities Center.

Parker Davis, a running back for the Sacred Heart Cougar football team, has been chosen as one of 60 eighth-grade football players in the nation to play in the first-ever Football University Youth All-American Bowl, which will take place Jan. 4, 2009 at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

Results from Saturday Oct. 25

The Sacred Heart Cougar volleyball team finished its season 13-7 season Tuesday against the Meade Middle School Buffaloes. The A team, which also won the Jayhawk Middle School League tournament over the weekend, beat Meade's A team 25-14 and 25-12. Sacred Heart's B team beat Meade 25-23 and 25-5. The Cougar C team bea the Buffs 25-15, 25-13 and 25-13.

The Sacred Heart Middle School Cougar football team closed out its undefeated 2008 season Monday with a 48-28 win over the Meade MS Buffaloes at Memorial Stadium.
    The Cougars ran for more than 500 yards against the Buffs and capitalized on four turnovers on the way to their seventh win of the season. A Zach Kirby interception set up a Cougar drive that ended with a 14-yard Parker Davis rushing score with just over six minutes remaining in the opening frame.