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Football Friday #5: What we're watching for!

Here's a look at a few things we're watching on this fifth Football Friday of the season: Dodge City at Wichita West Dodge City will look to avenge their third of four losses from last year when they play Wichita West at Northwest's stadium.
Clockwise from top left: Northern Heights' Tee Preisner (Photo by John Pringle); Southeast's Reece Jacobs (Photo by Jaymee Cummins); Dodge City's Beau Foster (File Photo); Sedgwick's Nathan Lacey (#11) and Gannon Resnik (#56) (Photo by Kelley DeGraffenreid); Garden City's Refujio Chairez (Photo by Adam Shrimplin); Cimarron's Hunter Renick (File Photo)

Subway Sports Spotlight, Oct. 1

Here's a quick rundown of a few noteworthy sports stories in our Subway Sports Spotlight: Wichita Trinity wins Cheney tournament; Broadie with big season Wichita Trinity jumped from sixth to fourth in the Class 4A Kansas Volleyball Coaches Association rankings last week.
Left: Beloit celebrated coach Brandy Paul's 200th victory Tuesday night. (Photo by Supt. Jeff Travis); Top right: Cody Achilles won the McPherson Invitational. (Photo by Peter Holland, Jr., McPherson Sentinel); Bottom right: Collin Koester had a big game in coach Matt Biehler's 100th win as head coach at Conway Springs. (Photo by Bree McReynolds-Baetz)

Recent KCAC grads share similar experiences

Kansas Pregame is joining forces with the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference to profile Kansas student athletes competing in the KCAC. This time we're taking a look at three recent grads of KCAC member institutions.
From left-to-right: Jenna Farris, Stephen Wilson and Brandt Wolters talk about their time as athletes at KCAC member institutions. (Photos courtesy KWU, Tabor and McPherson Athletics)

Football Friday #4: What we're watching for!

Time for week four in Kansas high school football, but first lets take a look at Thursday night’s action, which may have already produced the best games of the weekend. St. James upsets Bishop Miege You read that right, the St.
This week's Football Friday includes a number of players featured in this year's Kansas Pregame. Pictured clockwise from top left: Jordan Finnesy, Hudson Gray, Da'Vonshai Harden, Collin Koester, Ky Thomas, Jack Moellers, Kade Melvin and Teven McKelvey. (File Photos)

Subway Sports Spotlight, Sept. 24

Now that it's officially fall each fall sports regular season is over a third of the way through and there's plenty to recap from last week. In our weekly Subway Sports Spotlight feature Kansas Pregame writers take a look at several notable sports stories from across the state.
Clockwise from top left: Royal Valley volleyball. (Photo by Joan Pahmahmie); Eudora's Reagan Hiebert. (Photo by Carlee Norris); Eudora's Riley Hiebert. (Photo by Judy Erpelding); Hoxie's Addi Campbell. (File photo by Everett Royer); Manhattan's Daniel Harkin. (Photo by Huey Counts); Humboldt's Conor Haviland. (File photo by Taylor Beeman)

Football Friday #3: What we're watching for!

This week sends us over a third of the way through the regular season in Kansas and here's few games we're watching. Emporia looks to avenge last year's three-point loss to Legend, Colo. The drive from Parker, Colo., to Scott City, Kan., is roughly four hours and 15 minutes long.
Emporia's defensive line, led by Riley Wagner (#71), will get a tough test in this week's game with Legend (Co.) which will be played Saturday in Scott City. (Photo by Shari Beatty)

Fessenden enjoying retirement, Hanover threatening NV win streak

Coach Chuck Fessenden’s 1985 Almena-Northern Valley football team featured multiple sophomores in key roles. The Huskies returned senior running back Shane Baird, who tallied 1,573 rushing yards as a junior. Northern Valley lost in state title games in ’82-’83 and posted a 10-2 record in ’84.
Chuck Fessenden retired this spring after nearly 45 years coaching football, basketball and track & field. (Current photos by Fig Millan; Bottom right photo of Chuck in his early days as a teacher at Northern Valley courtesy Amy McKinney via a Northern Valley yearbook)
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