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The 2024 fall sports season in the Heart of America Conference is now complete. The HOA entered this past week with five football teams left alive in various state football playoff brackets, but all five HOA teams lost their second-round contests. Ell-Saline won the HOA’s 8-man football title while Moundridge won the 11-man HOA title. Ell-Saline, Marion, Sedgwick, ...

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A trio of Salina Central High School athletes put the pen to the paper, as they commit to take their talents to college. On Wednesday, Central student athletes, Katelyn Rupe, Valerie VanZant and Lillyana Jones each signed their letters of intent at the school's cafeteria. Katelyn Rupe, University of North Carolina (Cross Country and Track) Valerie ...

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A couple of student athletes at Salina South High School signed letters of intent Wednesday afternoon to continue their sports and academic careers at the collegiate level. At the school's Fall 2024 Signing Ceremony Hannah Gardner signed to play softball at Cloud County Community College, while Rylee Lambeth signed to bowl at Barton County Community College. South ...

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The Ark Valley Chisholm Trail League I has two of its seven football teams alive in the 2024 fall sports season. The AVCTL I entered this past week with five of its seven teams still alive after the opening week of the football playoffs, but that number has dropped to two, Derby and Hutchinson, after the ...

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Bill Self became the winningest coach in Kansas history and Hunter Dickinson scored 28 points as No. 1 Kansas pulled away from Michigan State for a 77-69 victory in the Champions Classic on Tuesday night. Self improved to 591-143 in his 22nd season coaching the Jayhawks, pushing him past Phog Allen's mark of 590-129 in 36 ...

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Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez and shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. have been named winners of the 2024 Louisville Slugger Silver Slugger Award, as announced tonight by Louisville Slugger. Perez was voted a winner over three other American League finalists at the catcher position: Houston’s Yainer Diaz, Oakland’s Shea Langeliers and Seattle’s Cal Raleigh. This marks ...

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Finalists for the major individual awards from the 2024 MLB regular season have been announced. Royals shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. is a finalist for the American League MVP Award. Witt led the Majors with a .332 batting average to go with 32 home runs and 31 steals. The 24-year-old led the Royals to the postseason for the ...

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Kansas Wesleyan Women's Cross Country finished second at the KCAC Women's Cross Country Championships on Saturday at the Saint Mary cross country course. It was the highest finish for the Coyotes in the KCAC championships in over 10 years. The Coyotes had six All-KCAC runners, including two first teamers as Josie Koppes paced the KWU finishers in ...

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Kansas Wesleyan Men's Cross Country finished in second place at the KCAC Men's Cross Country Championships held on Saturday at the Saint Mary cross country course. It's the second straight year for the Coyotes to finish second and will now await official confirmation of qualifying as a team in the NAIA National Championships in two weeks ...

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The Swedes Cross Country team concluded their season on Saturday at Leavenworth, KS for the final meet of the season, the KCAC Cross Country Championships. The championships were hosted by the University of St. Mary's. The conditions were muddy and slick which was a true running of pure cross country. With plenty of hills, this made for ...

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The Southeast of Saline Trojans are one of two remaining teams alive in the North Central Activities Association’s 2024 fall season. The Southeast of Saline Trojan football team is joined by the Beloit Trojan football team as the lone NCAA teams still alive. Both Trojan teams will have third round Class 2A playoff games this Friday night. ...