The Bucklin Red Aces basketball team advanced to the Sub-State championship game after defeating Moscow 85-52 in Thursday night’s semi-final. The Red Aces offense took off and Moscow had no answers for Bucklin.
Dodge City softball team played host to Seward County for a Jayhawk Conference showdown on Saturday and dropped a pair of tight contests despite holding early leads, falling 7-5 and 6-3. The Conqs with the losses fall to 7-10 on the season and 3-2 in KJCCC action with their next contest a makeup game at home against Northwest Kansas Tech on Tuesday, March 8 at 3 p.m.
This week’s athletes of the week are Anna Stein and Taegan Pedigo from Spearville High School. Anna Stein is having a great season.
Diamond Athletics Cheer & Dance has been well established in the Dodge City community and surrounding areas for many years now. For over 15 years it has been a place where kids of all ages can go to learn how to stunt, flip and tumble and learn all the various styles of dance from hip hop to ballet.
For the first time in 40 years, the Dodge City men’s basketball program has claimed a Region Championship as they beat Hutchinson 98-96 in overtime to secure the Region VI Championship title and an automatic bid to the NJCAA Division I National Tournament.
The Dodge City Red Demons defeated Washburn Rural in the Class 6A boys sub-state championship 56-49, securing their spot in the state tournament. Washburn Rural took control of the first quarter by leading 16-10 at the end of the quarter but the rest of the game was all Dodge City as they outscored Washburn Rural 46-33 in the last 3 quarters.
A term often used around Christmas and Thanksgiving is “Seasonal Smells,” meaning scents like pumpkin pie, roasting turkey and the scent of pine; pleasant fragrances that we associate with that time of the year. We have entered a time of the year that also has a specific essence associated with it that is not quite so pleasant.
As he spends time in his wheat fields this week applying fertilizer to this year’s winter wheat crop, Kansas farmer Justin Knopf says there’s plenty on his mind, and heart. “Drought, high fertilizer prices and extreme market volatility are all cause for extra concern this year,” he said, “but thinking about the people of Ukraine has evoked a whole new layer of emotion.
Unless Kansas has one of those rare, uncharacteristic, peaceful storm seasons, we all know what’s coming. Once that line of storms has passed, Kansans must deal with the line of “storm chasers.” The term has two definitions: It’s commonly used to describe meteorological evidence-gatherers who steer toward threatening weather.
The first people who lived in the Dodge City area didn’t live in cities, towns or even farmsteads. They camped as they followed their chief commodity and object of their worship.