After back-to-back touchdowns by visiting Colby, Marysville dug in to post a 45-21 win Friday in a first-round 3A playoff game.
Axtell came from behind to win 42-40 at Kensington-Thunder Ridge Thursday night.
Hanover won against Tuesday in a 1A Division I state quarterfinal and Centralia's season ended in 1A DI volleyball action at Lebo.
Mitchell Buessing, Axtell, and Michelle Zarybnicky, Hanover, finished 10th in Saturday’s regional cross country meets to qualify for state.
How Isaiah Miller and Grant Holle, Marysville’s fourth and fifth runners, finished Saturday contributed heavily to the Bulldogs returning to the 3A state cross country meet.
For the first time in school history the Marysville boys’ cross country team qualified for the 3A state meet in back-to-back years.
The only thing that a 38-8 loss at Riley County cost Marysville was the No. 1 seed in the district.
Centralia and Hanover have the No. 1 seeds when sub-state volleyball starts Saturday.
In the 120-mile three-person coed relay event, Team Amy, a mix of riders from Lincoln and Omaha, Neb., won in 8 hours 54.14 minutes. Move Up Cycling Club Juniors 1, which had members from the Kansas City area, was second in 9:42:23, and the Move Up Cycling Club Juniors A, also a Kansas City …
Valley Heights went 2-0 in the Twin Valley League finals Tuesday to repeat as tournament champions.
Silas Miller, Marysville, ran a personal best 17:01.68 at Sabetha and was credited with breaking the school record. The school record was set in 2004 by MHS’ Dallas Leonard and not by Joe Smith.
Valley Heights started Friday’s district football game at Jackson Heights with 11 players, but played with 10 at times en route to a 56-15 win.
Freshman Silas Miller, Marysville, had a pair of Wamego runners fairly close to him during most of last Thursday’s 5K North Central Kansas League cross country race.
Standout performances features top accomplishments by local and area athletes for the week in football, volleyball, cross country and girls’ tennis.
Mitchell Buessing, Axtell, was the Twin Valley League individual cross country champion last Thursday in Seneca.
Valley Heights and Hanover were Gold Division winners in pool play Saturday for the first day of the Twin Valley League volleyball tournament.
Jordy Nelson, Marysville, finished fifth in the Budweiser IMCA modified race Friday at Beatrice Speedway.
Hanover remained ranked second in 1A Division II to Rexford-Golden Plains.
Hanover, Frankfort and Centralia remained stationary in the weekly kpreps.com rankings.
Marysville guaranteed itself a home game for the first round of the playoffs with a 20-0 win Friday at Clay Center.
Twin Valley League volleyball will start as planned Saturday at Washington County High and Frankfort High Schools.
Once freshman Silas Miller, Marysville, took the lead in Thursday's North Central Kansas League boys' cross country meet, he didn't give it up.
Eighteen riders, two women and 16 men, are registered for the 120 open bikepacking two-day adventure that will kickoff the sixth annual Pony Express 120 Gravel Dash.
Freshman Shea Kramer, Marysville, finished third Saturday in the 3-2-1A Phillipsburg girls’ tennis regional to qualify for the state tennis tournament.
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Freshman Shea Kramer, Marysville, was 2-0 Friday and 1-1 Saturday in singles at the 3-2-1A Phillipsburg regional to finish third.
Freshman Shea Kramer, Marysville, was 2-0 in singles Friday to qualify for the 3-2-1A state tournament next weekend in Wichita.
Regional tennis started Friday at Phillipsburg for the Marysville girls' team.
Doniphan West girls’ cross country team showed its dominance Saturday at the Centralia Invitational at Centralia Lake by taking the top three places and winning as a team with 17 points.
Despite Marysville's 12-0 lead in the first quarter and a Bulldog lead from start to finish, Friday's district game was a nailbiter at times all the way down to the 30-24 final.
One case of COVID-19 led to the cancellation of tonight's eight-man Division II showdown between Frankfort and Hanover.
Both Marysville and Hanover volleyball teams went 3-1 in pool tournaments Saturday at the Concordia Invitational.
Every Marysville runner showed improvement last Thursday in the Horton Invitational as Bulldogs vie to hold on to varsity spots.
Ashton Lambie, Lawrence, is expected to return to compete in the sixth annual Pony Express 120 Gravel Dash, an event he won previously.
Marysville High School girls’ tennis team took the North Central Kansas League title Saturday at Concordia and will head to regional competition this weekend.
Marysville scored on every one of its series at Council Grove and rolled to a 58-0 win to open district football action Friday there.
It has been a three-year wait for Jack Blumer, Marysville, to step on to a game football field and the wait has been worth it.
The outcomes of Friday’s football games between state-ranked Twin Valley League teams was not as close as anticipated.
Michelle Zarybnicky, Hanover, set a 7:01 pace in Monday’s cross country race at Washington County and no one could match it.
Not playing a homecoming game Friday gave Marysville coaches and football players time to improve and to get healthy.
In a tight team race against Clay Center last Thursday at a boys’ cross country meet in Belleville, Marysville won by a point.
Marysville tennis coach Mary Kessinger-Wassom returned to her usual lineup last Thursday for the Concordia invitational and the Bulldogs finished third.
Area runners had their challenges against upper division schools at last Thursday’s Nemaha Central cross country invitational.
Football games between state-ranked teams were expected to be close, but instead finishes were more of a surprise.
Marysville will have no Homecoming game Friday, although festivities will still be held. The Bulldogs were set to play the Chapman Irish, but the team had to cancel because of COVID-19 spread in that school district.
Big games are on tap for Friday as state-ranked football teams face off in 1A and eight-man Division II.
Marysville girls’ tennis coach Mary Kessinger-Wassom tried different combinations and got five team points and fifth place Saturday in the Smoky Valley tournament.
Marysville got a look at what the Oct. 15 North Central Kansas League meet could look like during last Thursday’s cross country meet at Clay Center.
Area football teams had less drama play out in Friday night games than Marysville at Rock Creek.
Focus has been on intensity and finishing drives this week as Marysville prepares to play at Rock Creek Friday in the last preparatory football game before district starts.
Marysville boys’ cross country team debuted as No. 7 in the 3A polls last week and the Bulldogs showed they belonged with a runner-up finish at Wamego.
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