Mike Smith DCCC Sports Information Director Three-straight wins to open the season is the best start for the Dodge City men’s soccer program since the 2012 season as the Conquistadors picked up a 3-0 win over Southeast to move to 3-0 on the season. The first half would be back-and-forth and both teams had some looks, but neither would be able to breakthrough leaving the game scoreless headed into halftime.
Mike Smith DCCC Sports Information Director For the first time since 2017 the Dodge City women’s soccer program has won their season opener as they claimed a 3-0 win over Southeast to open the 2022 season. Eager to get the season rolling the Conquistadors would pick up their pace throughout the first half and ultimately outshot Southeast 8-2 in the first half on the way to a 1-0 lead at intermission.
The following are the overall top 10 high school football teams in Kansas in each class: 6A, 5A, 4A, 3A, 2A, 1A, 8MD1 and 8MD2. These rankings are voted on by a panel of the Kansas sports media from around the state for the start of the 2022 season.
It was about this time several years ago, when our part of the country was bone-dry like today, that I took what was probably my last outdoor hike with our dad. I swooped him up at his retirement home apartment and we headed to the McPherson Valley Wetlands just outside Inman for a hike. The trails had recently been mowed making the walking easy, but I had to measure my steps so my long legs didn’t out-distance him. We stopped on the first rise and I pointed out all the marshes that were now dry and the ones that still held water. Next, we meandered down into one dry pool along the trail where I had trapped muskrats the prior winter. We looked over a now flattened muskrat hut that had once seemed as big as a Volkswagen. We could still make out a muskrat trail in the mud that led from one big bunch of cattails to another. A little further, and we topped the dike along the drainage ditch that runs nearly a mile to the next road and drains all the marshes along the way, but was now so dry the ducks have to hitchhike down it. Just behind us, the drainage split as it made its way around a large grove of trees. The previous winter at that place there had been a long beaver dam that had since been demolished with heavy equipment. We stepped over the left-over rubble from that beaver dam and down into the dry drainage ditch. It was fascinating to think that the previous winter the water was deep enough where we stood that I hesitated to wade into it with chest waders. We found a beaver den or two dug into the bank deep in the bottom of the dry drainage. Bottles, tree limbs and strangely enough a bright yellow golf ball all lay in the mud waiting to be covered once again when the rain came. The grove of trees harbored mammoth cottonwoods probably as old as dad and I together. We clamored up out of the dry ditch, meandered through the trees and onto the road that led us back to the truck.
Mike Smith DCCC Sports Information Director Dodge city volleyball team traveled to Trinidad, Colorado, and posted a 4-0 weekend at the Trinidad State Tournament to move to 5-2 on the season. The Conquistadors opened the tournament on Friday with a four-set win over Casper (WY) 25-19, 25-18, 19-25, 25-22 and capped Friday with another four-set win beating Otero 25-12, 25-22, 23-25, 25-16.
The Kansas Volleyball Association is pleased to announce the 2022 pre-season volleyball rankings. Current classifications for the rankings are based on enrollments from the 2021-22 school year, and the rankings will be adjusted when the updated classifications are released at the end of September.
Last week’s scrimmages are in the books and local teams are now preparing for their week one opponents this week. These scrimmages are more than just a chance for coaches to evaluate their teams a final time before regular-season openers.
The Kansas City Chiefs wrapped up their preseason schedule Aug. 25 by defeating the Green Bay Packers 17-10 at Arrowhead Stadium.
Mike Smith DCCC Sports Information Director For the second straight year the Dodge City football team opened their season facing off with a Top five ranked Iowa Western Reivers team as the Conquistadors traveled to Council Bluffs, Iowa to commence the 2022 season facing off with the #2 ranked Reivers. The contest started with a display of defense over the first four series of the game as the teams combined for -1 yards and were unable to get a first down.
The weekend events at Dodge City Raceway Park featured IMCA Mod Lite, IMCA RaceSaver Sprint Car, Winged A, Micro 600 Restricted. Racing is back in action on Sept. 3 and 4 as Dodge City Raceway Park plays host to the Predator Series Kart Nationals.