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KFBCA Hall of Fame Selection: Ken Stonebraker

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Former Salina South head football coach and athletic director Ken Stonebraker was recently selected for induction into the Kansas Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame. (Photo: Dylan Sherwood/The Salina Journal)

Life comes full circle sometimes. When it happens in the great fraternity of Kansas high school football coaches, it can take on a whole new meaning.

Longtime Kansas high school football coaching giants Ken Stonebraker and Chuck Porter will be inducted this December in the Kansas Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame. A culmination of years of molding young men into men after their paths first crossed in early 1985.

KFBCA Hall of Fame Selection: Chuck Porter

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Legendary former Wichita East High School football coach Chuck Porter, center, and former assistant coaches and friends Jerry Taylor, left, and Steve Miller, right. (Photo: Schari Porter)

He wasn’t just a football coach for 34 years to hundreds and hundreds of football players.
Chuck Porter, as one former player described it, was a father figure to him.

“Last summer a young man from the (Wichita) East High team of 1982 contacted us to let Chuck know of his love and gratefulness that he was his Coach,” Chuck’s wife of nearly 50 years Schari Porter said. “And also a father figure to him since he did not have a father in his life.”

Finch family business

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For Doug Finch - back row center - and his daughters and grandchildren, basketball (and coaching) is more than a passion, it's the family business. (Submitted Photo)

Smith Center senior Dakota Kattenberg notched a major career milestone when she hit the 1,000 career points scored mark in her team’s Tuesday victory over Hoxie, a consistent level of production that few high school basketball players ever come close to.

But Kattenberg, who has helped lead the Lady Redmen to a 13-2 record, is not the first in her gene pool to see success on the court.

CKS BB scores January 29th-February 4th, 2024

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Kansas Pregame is continuing its trial run of providing basketball results and top scorers for select teams through the central portion of the state. Check back throughout the week as more scores are updated.

Girls:

1/29

McPherson (10-3) - 40
Circle (9-3) - 25

Leading Scorers: McPherson - Karter Alvord 9, Kylie Dennison 7

Ell-Saline (5-3) - 61
Sedgwick (2-11) - 32

Leading scorers: Ell-Saline - Brin Hecker 19, Taelor Hardesty 14

KPG BBB rankings

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Clockwise from the bottom left: South Gray's Joey Dyck and Dominic Martin, Kapaun's Teagan Charles and Brooks Powers, and Beloit's Quinn Eilert, Noah Gerstner and Bryce Beisner are leading the way for this trio of ranked teams. (Photos: Heather Kindall Photography)

Here's our best guess at the rankings after significant team and schedule research as well as consultation with coaches and media from across the state. A reminder, this is just for fun. Fortunately, sub-state and state tournaments will determine who the best team is in each classification in March and not rankings. To view the girls ranking from this week, click here.

KPG GBB rankings

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Clockwise from bottom left: Silver Lake's MaKenzie McDaniel and McKinley Kruger, Andover's Alana Shetlar and Brooke Walker, and Little River's Alaina Eck and Aubrey Olander lead the way for three of the most dominant teams in their respective classifications. (Photos: Heather Kindall Photography)

Here's our best guess at the rankings after significant team and schedule research as well as consultation with coaches and media from across the state. A reminder, this is just for fun. Fortunately, sub-state and state tournaments will determine who the best team is in each classification in March and not rankings. To view the boys ranking from this week, click here.

Tigers clawing back

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The Ulysses girls basketball team is clawing their way toward a turnaround. (Photo: Submitted)

Turnarounds aren’t easy, and for Ulysses girls basketball head coach Audrey Marshall, season one with the program was full of challenges. 

The Tigers had their last winning season in 2019, when head coach Tim Hofferber led them to an 18-5 record with a state tournament appearance, but in the following three seasons, they only won a total of seven games.

When Marshall took over going into the 2022-23 season, she returned three starters from the prior two-win season and fought hard despite not winning a game.

KBCA releases seventh regular season basketball rankings

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GIRLS RANKINGS
6A Girls

1 Shawnee Mission South
2 OP-Blue Valley North
3 Olathe West
4 Olathe South
5 OP-Blue Valley Northwest
6 Derby
7 Wichita South
8 Topeka-Washburn Rural
9 Wichita Heights
10 OP-Blue Valley

5A Girls
1 Andover
2 Topeka - Seaman
3 Wichita – Bishop Carroll
4 Maize South
5 Emporia
6 De Soto
7 OP-St. Thomas Aquinas
8 Lenexa-St. James Academy
9 Valley Center
10 OP-Blue Valley Southwest

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