The Manhattan High wrestling team opened its season Thursday with a 42-39 win over Great Bend at Manhattan High’s east campus.

Ten Riley County football players and nine Rock Creek football players were named to the All-Mid-East League football teams Wednesday.

Three local girls’ basketball teams were part of the preseason Kansas Basketball Coaches Association polls in their respective classes. The polls were released Wednesday.

The Manhattan High boys’ swim and dive team finished fourth Wednesday at the Topeka West Boys Invite with 325 points. Washburn Rural won the event with 461 points.

Robert Gonzales will be the first to admit that last year’s Manhattan High wrestling performance was below the program’s standards.

Of all Manhattan High’s winter sports teams, the boys’ swim and dive team has had perhaps the rockiest road to get to the start of this season.

Manhattan boys’ soccer senior midfielder Cole Schmitt and senior midfielder/forward Connor Turner both earned another award to end their high school careers.

High school winter sports will start on schedule, but no fans can attend.

For the second year in a row, Manhattan High’s Damian Ilalio is the Centennial League Defensive Player of the Year.

FRANKFORT — Nick Anderson had a feeling his team was fortunate to still be in the game as his defense ran back onto the field midway through the second quarter Friday.

Nick Anderson took about a day to celebrate his team’s narrow win over Lebo in the 8-Man Division II sectional round.

Following a season that saw the Manhattan High boys’ soccer team finish 10-6-1 and fall just short of upsetting Washburn Rural in the regional round, seven Indians’ players were named to one of the All-Centennial League teams, which were released Thursday.

The Junction City High School Athletic Field was dedicated Sept. 24, 1965. On Friday, the stadium that was renamed to honor coach Al Simpler in 1983 will host its final high school football game, ending a 55-year run as the home of the Blue Jays. The team will start the 2021 season at a new …

Following its narrow win over Lebo, Frankfort has moved up to No. 4 in the Kpreps.com 8-Man Division II rankings.

After 37 years, Riley County football coach Steve Wagner is hanging up his headset.

Two Manhattan volleyball seniors ended their high school careers in style Monday, earning spots on the All-Centennial League first team.

Following a season that saw the Wamego football team advance to the sectional round of the Class 4A playoffs, nine Red Raiders’ players were named to the North Central Kansas League’s all-league teams. Four players were named to the first team on either offense or defense, and five earned ho…

WAMEGO — With 17 seconds remaining in Friday’s sectional game, Wamego head coach Weston Moody made a bold call.

FRANKFORT — Devan McEwen had nary a misstep all night. He dodged, ducked, juked and spun around defenders nearly every time he had the ball. Lebo’s starting quarterback, McEwen accounted for 271 of his team’s 368 yards in Friday’s sectional matchup versus Frankfort. He also scored all six of…

JUNCTION CITY — In a last-ditch effort Friday night, Wichita East attempted to drive up the field for a game-tying score. In an attempt to get the first down and a final shot at the end zone, quarterback Daylan Jones tossed the ball near the first-down marker. That ball was tipped by a Junct…

RILEY — Advancing to the state semifinals always was going to be a tall task for Riley County, as the Falcons hosted No. 1 Andale Friday night in the Class 3A sectional round.

Seven area football teams started the playoffs. Now just three remain.

There wasn’t much defense on either side of Friday night’s regional matchup between Frankfort and Beloit St. Johns-Tipton. However, when it needed stops, the Wildcats came up with just enough of them to pull off a 54-43 win to advance to the sectional round of the 8-Man Division II playoffs.

WICHITA — For the first time all Friday night, Manhattan High’s offense was moving the ball.

JUNCTION CITY — Junction City High advanced to the third round of the Kansas State High School Activities Association Class 6A football tournament with a 70-25 victory over the visiting Washburn Rural Junior Blues Friday at Al Simper Stadium.

EL DORADO — Quarterback Hayden Oviatt led the Wamego High football team to a regional championship Friday night in El Dorado.

In an up-and-down season for the Manhattan High football program, the team’s defensive line has been the lone constant.

It took a blocked extra point from a quarterback to get here, but here Manhattan is all the same.

Following an eighth-place finish in the 2020 state tournament, the Manhattan High boys’ wrestling team will enter the 2020-21 season No. 3 in Class 6A in the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association’s boys’ rankings. The Indians slot in behind only top-ranked Washburn Rural and No. 2 Garden City.

AUGUSTA — In the moments after winning his second state title in as many years, Daniel Harkin wasn’t happy.

Joe Schartz saw how Manhattan would win Friday’s football game against Garden City when watching film.

WAMEGO — Wamego High’s football team kept its season alive Friday. And the Red Raiders did so decisively.

Saturday’s meet has been circled on the Manhattan boys’ cross country team’s calendar for years.

TOPEKA — A night that started with promise ended in tears for the Manhattan High boys’ soccer team.

Manhattan is no stranger to its opponent in the first round of the 2020 6A playoffs. However, the memory of its last meeting with the team it is set to go up against isn’t one the Indians are eager to remember.

Following a preseason of uncertainty and a regular season filled with unexpected cancelations and reschedulings, the football postseason finally has arrived.

Valley Heights has been forced to forfeit its opening-round playoff game against Northeast-Arma because of issues caused by the coronavirus. The forfeit ends the Mustangs’ season.

The gates to the Topeka High goal stayed closed for longer than the Manhattan High boys’ soccer team would have liked. But when they opened, they opened fast.