Mike Smith DCCC Sports Information Director The fall season started with a bang for the Dodge City men’s golf team as they competed at the Southwestern Christian Invite in Oklahoma City. The Conqs would etch their name in the records in multiple ways on their way to a third-place team finish at the tournament posting an 818 three-round score to finish -46 which is a school record for 54-hole team performance.
Mike Smith DCCC Sports Information Director Dodge City volleyball hit the road traveling to the east side of Kansas on Tuesday and took on Neosho County in a non-conference matchup and earned the straight-set sweep. The Conquistadors picked up the win 27-25, 25-21, 25-13 to improve to 6-3 on the season.
Mike Smith DCCC Sports Information Director Off and running for the Dodge City women’s cross country team as they opened the season under the lights at the Terry Masterson Twilight Classic in Hutchinson on Thursday. The Conquistadors put together a strong start to the season finishing fifth as a team out of 14 schools that included multiple NCAA Division II programs and NAIA’s alongside several of the KJCCC teams.
Fall seems terribly slow in arriving this year, but when it does, it becomes my favorite time of the year. The weather FINALLY cools, the Kansas State Fair is held, fall farm crops are harvested and fall mountain man retreats and rendezvous begin. A couple years ago, we attended the annual fall mountain man get-together known as a Prairie Rendezvous at the Maxwell Wildlife Refuge, near Canton, KS.
MEADE – On a hot sunny day, 133 total competitors took the course Sept. 1 in the Meade Cross Country Invitational. Due to the extreme heat conditions the meet was only two miles compared to the usual 3.1 miles.
Dodge City put their foot on the gas and never hit the breaks, rolling to a 6-1 season opening win over Bishop Carroll last Aug. 30.
Stats Spearville All Purpose Yards The Bucklin Red Aces defeated Spearville, 24-20, in a close week 1 contest. Sophomore Lucas Kirk completed 13 of 15 passes for 84 yards and a touchdown.
The Wichita West Pioneers came into the Friday- night game Sept. 2 at Memorial Stadium planning to execute its normal game plan and eventually outscore the Dodge City Red Demons. However, it was the Red Demons who wore down the Pioneers taking the fire out of them time and time again.
Cimarron Bluejays traveled to Scott City on Sept. 2 to take on the Beavers.