While driving the countryside lately, I’ve noticed that despite the ever-encroaching drought, some of the really nice farm ponds around still hold lots of water. Good farm ponds built in the correct place are hard to beat, and farm-pond fishing is often good. This brought to mind a farm-pond fishing adventure Joyce and I had a few years back about this time of year at a local pond.
The Lady Aces play in one of the toughest small school leagues in Kansas. Having said that, Head Coach Amy Fleener believes the Lady Aces Volleyball will compete with the upper division of SPIAA this coming season. Coach Fleener said they “will be more athletic than the previous two years, but we will also be the youngest we have ever been.”
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Drew Waters drew a bases-loaded walk to break an eighth-inning tie in his major league debut, boosting the Kansas City Royals to a 6-4 win over the Chicago White Sox on Monday in a game rescheduled because of the lockout in April.
“This will be a building year for us,” said head coach Syble Thompson. “We graduated some key players last year. We are looking to train our setters to be confident and strong in their roles. We have great experience returning which will help us to grow and strengthen our team. Our main focus will be on teamwork and bonding. Unity is key in making the team the best team on the court.”
The 2022 Kansas high school soccer season is underway and the Red Demons Soccer team is already being noticed, as three players make the Top 25 Class 6A Boys Soccer Players to Watch list. Those players are Angel Lopez, Irwin Macias and Aron Martinez.
In 2021, Kinsley had its second winning season in a row, going 5-4, and losing to Attica/ Argonia in the playoffs. Losing key pieces in the senior class will hurt, but the Coyotes will have a great amount of experience coming back.
High school football is back, and teams around the area are preparing for their first games of the 2022 season. The first game of the year can set the tone for the remainder of the season. Teams don’t immediately sink or swim after one game, but it can provide a decent litmus test as to how the year might pan out.
Mike Smith DCCC Sports Information Director Eager to get the season going the men’s soccer team hit the road for the season opener taking on Tabor JV and took control early in route to a 9-2 victory to open the season. The Conquistadors would get goals from six different players with six different guys also recording an assist in the victory, also.
Mike Smith DCCC Sports Information Director It was a doubleheader split for the volleyball team to open the 2022 season as they competed in McCook, Nebraska facing off against Laramie County and Mc-Cook. The Conquistadors would open the season against Laramie County and struggle out of the gate falling behind early in the match ultimately dropping the season opener 3-1 (25-19, 25-21, 22-25, 25-16).
That phrase was written on the trophies Dodge City Raceway Park Director Craig Dollansky handed out at the end of the first annual Burnout Event at the park Aug. 21. Pictured here is driver Noe Banuelos, owner of Banuelos Auto Repair in Dodge City, and his nephew Kevin Rodarte in Banuelos’s 1993 Pontiac trans am. “I like to come out for these kinds of events,” he said. [PHOTO BY Whitney Hodgin/ Dodge City Globe]