5 years ago
The Ell-Saline Cardinals opened the Class 1-A playoffs Friday evening at the Cardinals' Nest in Brookville with a hard-fought 27-14 victory over the Oakley Plainsmen. Ell-Saline (7-2) scored the only touchdown of the first half, as junior tailback Keenan Drees capped a nine-play, 80-yard drive with a 3-yard touchdown run off the left end to give ...

5 years ago
The Southeast of Saline Trojans are no strangers to Northeast Kansas. In the opening round of the 2018 Class 2A state playoffs, Southeast traveled 140 miles to Seneca. This season, the Trojans had a little bit longer of a trek, worth 193 miles to Wathena. Still, the Trojans made the journey back to Gypsum with a victory. Southeast ...

5 years ago
The resumes of both the Maize South Mavericks and Salina South Cougars suggested that the Cougars could have made this 5A West first round playoff contest a tight one for the #2 seed Mavericks, but that notion would not materialize on Friday at the Maize South Sports Complex as the hosts posted their third shutout ...

5 years ago
Plainville's Jordan Finnesy and Jared Casey had their own Senior Night as they helped to defeat the Sacred Heart Knights 56-7. In the first play of the game Casey ran for a 51 yard touchdown. Later in the quarter he ran 20 yards for the second touchdown of the game. Then Finnesy got in on the action ...

5 years ago
All season long, the Salina Central defense rose to the occasion. Andover's brick wall was a tad bit better. Quarterback Ashton Ngo ran for two scores, the defense blocked a punt and locked down Central on third downs, and the Trojans powered past the Mustangs, 28-7, in the first round of the Class 5A state playoffs Friday ...

5 years ago
Minneapolis saw its 2019 football season come to an end on Friday night at Bluejay Field in Cimarron, as Cimarron shutout the Lions, 36-0. Minneapolis will be kicking itself after the first round playoff game, as the Lions had three drives deep in to Bluejay territory--two off of Cimarron turnovers--however, came away with nothing each time. Cimarron, ...

5 years ago
Smoky Valley scored on their first five drives en route to a 48-0 victory in their final game of the season on Friday night. The Vikings opened up the scoring in the first quarter with a 4 play 73 yard drive ending with a Raleigh Wilson 12 yard carry to go up 6-0. Following a 3 ...

5 years ago
The Abilene Cowboys season came to an end Friday night, in the opening round of the playoffs, at McPherson in a 63-7 loss to the Bullpups.  It was the fifth straight loss in the series for Abilene and the second their second loss to the Bullpups this year.  The Cowboys fell to McPherson on September ...

5 years ago
Join outdoor expert Bob Roberts on Saturday mornings on 1150 KSAL for the latest edition of Central Kansas Outdoors. Love is in the air for Kansas Deer with Bucks and Does throwing caution to the wind. Bob Roberts talks about being out there is the key to harvesting that nice buck. Pheasant and Quail seasons coming up and ...

5 years ago
The Kansas City Chiefs fell to the Green Bay Packers, 31-24, at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday night as the Packers outlasted the Chiefs despite multiple Kansas City rallies. Leading by a touchdown and facing a third-and-five with two minutes remaining, Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rodgers found tailback Aaron Jones for a gain of eight to move the ...

5 years ago
LAWRENCE, Kan. – The Kansas Jayhawks cruised to a win over the Pittsburg State Gorillas, 102-42, in their second and final exhibition of the season inside of Allen Fieldhouse on Thursday, with three players in double figures, including a game high 19 points from Kansas sophomore Ochai Agbaji. Joining Agbaji in double-figures, sophomore David McCormack scored ...