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Cheney Cardinals to host Heart-to-Heart this Friday. A3
Goddard Annual fundraiser becomes personal. A4
Haysville Special Olympics supporters take chilly dips in Riggs Park. A3
Garden Plain City annexes portion of Prairie Sunset Trail. A5 Travis Mounts and Dale Stelz/The Times-Sentinel
Girls high school wrestling how has an officially-sanctioned State tournament. This weekend, competitors will head to regionals to qualify for that State meet, including athletes from Campus (top), Goddard (left) and Eisenhower (right).
Girls wrestling coming into its own By Michael Buhler The Times-Sentinel
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There was a time that it was uncommon for girls to compete in wrestling. Now it is starting to boom across Kansas and even in Sedgwick County, as three schools – Campus, Eisenhower and Goddard – will be sending wrestlers to the inaugural Class 6-1A regional this weekend at McPherson. Jim Dryden, who coaches boys and girls wrestling at Campus, credits the official sanctioning of girls wrestling by the Kansas State High School Activities Association for increasing interest in the sport.
“This is the first year we have had many girls participating in wrestling,” Dryden said. “We have had as many as 15 this year, but are currently at 12. The last couple of years we had three or four girls, but with KSHSAA sanctioning girls wrestling as an official sport, our numbers greatly increased.” Jessi Bernal (170 pounds) and Olivia McNeal (130) are the Colts’ most experienced wrestlers, having been on the team for three years. Both girls won individual titles at the Fredonia Wrestling Invitational at the beginning of this month, helping Campus take third in the girls division at the tournament. This is the first year however where they
have wrestled girls exclusively,” Dryden said. “The previous years in order for them to get matches in, they had to wrestle against boys sometimes. Our girls are getting better each week and are starting to put things together. The success that Jessi and Olivia are having is something we point to in order for the new girls to understand that it takes time to get to that level.” Meanwhile, Blake Rhea took third at Fredonia, while Kenzie McCuan finished fourth and Erin Jackson placed fifth. “Kenzie, Blake (Rhea) and Erin are emerg-
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Clearwater hires new police chief By Travis Mounts
Teams fare well in hoops rankings Tuesday’s latest rankings from the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association once again includes several local teams. On the boys’ side, undefeated Campus remains the No. 1 team in Class 6A. The Eisenhower Tigers are No. 4 in 5A, while the Clearwater Indians are No. 9 in 4A. In the Central Plains League, Cheney is No. 6 in 3A and Garden Plain is No. 5 in 2A. Two girls teams are ranked, with Garden Plain at No. 6 in 2A, and Cheney at No. 8 in 3A.
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CLEARWATER – Kirk Ives will be the new police chief for the City of Clearwater. The new chief was officially hired at Tuesday’s Clearwater City Council meeting. The city had been searching for a new
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police chief since the retirement of Bill Histle. Ives has spent the past 11 years as police chief in Oxford, a Sumner County community of about 1,000 people. The community sits on the Walnut River on the Sumner-Cowley county line, and is about 10 minutes west of Winfield. Clearwater’s population is about 2,500.
“I though we had a really good pool of candidates,” said city administrator Ron Marsh. “I’m excited about what he brings to the department and where he’ll take the department. Ives was the city’s top choice, although Marsh said all four of the final candidates were good ones. The field was then narrowed to two before the city
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offered the position to Ives. Ives grew up in St. John, Kan., and graduated from Kansas State University. He returned home to start is law enforcement career. He was employed at Larned Mental Health Correction Facility and then was hired to be an officer for the St. John Police
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