The 2017 Lady Demon Soccer Team has been announced.
Lady Demons ready to begin postseason
Lady Demons begin postseason
By: John Zetmeir
The Dodge City High School girls basketball team will travel to Wichita Northwest on Thursday night for their sub-state opener in hopes to make it back to the 6A state tournament for the second year in a row.
The Red Demons(6-14) have gotten off to better starts in their last five games.The Dodge City girls have outscored their last five opponents by a combined 64-37 in the first quarter. Now, head coach Kelley Snodgrass wants to see her team take the next step and build off of the strong starts.
“I think we have fixed our starting issue for sure,” Snodgrass said. “They’ve come out with more intensity and we’ve really played better on the defensive end. It’s just getting over that hump of being able to finish in close games.”
Last season the Red Demons had the luxury of playing both of their sub-state games at home. In order to make it to the state tournament this season, Dodge City will have to win road games.
“It’s always good to be at home in front of your home crowd but we’ve actually played better on the road this year,” Snodgrass said. “We’ll just take it one game at a time.”
Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita Northwest.
Red Demons season ends in Wichita
Demons season ends in Wichita
By John Zetmeir
For the first three quarters of Wednesday night’s first round sub-state match up between the Dodge City High School boys basketball team and Wichita North, the Red Demons looked poised to advance to the second round.
Dodge City did not trail in the game until the final 2 minutes and had four free throw attempts in the final second to try to tie the game but Wichita North stole the 59-57 win by outscoring the Red Demons 20-9 in the fourth quarter.
“We played exceptionally hard again, the group has done it all year,” Dodge City head coach Dennis Hamilton said during a post game radio interview. “You can look at our games and there is possibly two or three where we were just outmanned. Our kids just show a lot of guts and grit and continue to get after it and they did again tonight.”
The Red Demons got off to a fast start by taking an 11-4 lead but whenever Dodge City was able to build a sizable lead, Wichita North chipped away at it.
The Redskins ended the first half on a 9-0 run after trailing 31-20 with 2:11 to play in the first half.
With 7:23 to play in the game, junior Kaden Riekenberg drilled a 3-pointer that put Dodge City up 51-41 but it was over the final 7 minutes that Wichita North became the aggressor.
Wichita North grabbed their first lead of the game just under 2 minutes to play before a steal and layup by junior Luke Gleason gave the Demons the lead with 57 seconds left. A 3-point play by North’s Jonah Carrasco gave the Redskins the two-point advantage with 46 seconds left in the game.
Junior Hunter Heath led Dodge City with 16 points while Riekenberg added nine and senior Thomas Sanchez scored eight. The Red Demons finished 19-of-32 from the field and 13-21 from the free throw line.
Red Demons remain optimistic
Demons remain optimistic
By: John Zetmeir
The Dodge City High School boys basketball team aren’t worried about what their record was through the first 20 games of their season.
As far as the Red Demons (3-17) are concerned, they are 0-0 and have two games potentially against familiar opponents standing between them and a trip back to the 6A state tournament. None of the four teams in Dodge City’s sub-state bracket has a winning record. The best record amongst the group is Wichita North who went 10-10 on the year.
“The grou
ping of four that we got placed with is something that we feel like we can compete with,” Dodge City head coach Dennis Hamilton said. “Being a three-win team, normally you are getting matched up with a 16-win team or somebody that had a great year.”
On Wednesday night, they will travel to Wichita North for a rematch with the Redskins, who they suffered a 59-48 loss against in the opening round of the Tournament of Champions back in January. In that loss, the Red Demons outscored the Redskins over the final three quarters of the game but falling into an early 21-6 hole was too much for them to climb out of.
“We’ll play with a chip on our shoulder,” Dodge City senior Chris Baker said about the rematch. “We’re going to their place so it would be even sweeter if we get the win there.”
The Red Demons are not looking past Wichita North, but knowing that a third game with Garden City is a possibility with a win on Wednesday is in the back of their minds. If the two Western Athletic Conference teams were to both win their sub-state opener on Wednesday, the Red Demons would travel to take on the Buffaloes on Saturday.
The Buffaloes won both regular season meetings in a pair of close contests.
“It would be great to play Garden in the second round but we’re focused on North right now,” Baker said. “But we definitely want to play Garden next game.”
Tipoff is scheduled for 6 p.m. at Wichita North.
State Wrestling Results
Day 1
All eight Demons advance
Garcia, Fisher to battle for state titles
By: John Zetmeir
All eight of the Dodge City High School wrestlers that qualified for the 6A state tournament are still in the position to leave Wichita with a medal after the first day of competition.
Every Red Demon wrestler collected at least one win on Friday as the team accumulated 66 points which puts them in a tie for sixth place. Dodge City had five wrestlers advance to the quarterfinals,three advance to the semifinals and two make it to the state championship match.
“Overall you’re going to win some and lose some,” Dodge City head coach Lars Lueders said. “There was five matches that I thought we should’ve won. It was mental mistakes on our part where we lost.We will hopefully get those corrected and bounce back strong. The effort was there, it was just some mistakes along the way that tripped up some of our guys. Everybody got through to the second day so that’s important.”
Highlighting the day for Dodge City was senior Tylor Garcia and sophomore Marcos Fisher, who each earned spots in the state championship match in their respective weight classes. Garcia earned a chance to wrestle for a 145-pound state title by defeating Garden City’s Curtis Near in the quarterfinals before edging out Wyandotte’s Javier Contreras in the semifinals with a 5-1 decision.
In order to end his high school wrestling career with a state championship, Garcia will have to defeat Manhattan’s Mason Wallace in the fourth meeting between the two wrestlers this season. Wallace is 3-0 against Garcia this season in three close matches, two of which were decided by two points.
Fisher advanced to Saturday’s final match in the 220-pound division by pinning Blue Valley Northwest junior Josh Cruz in the semifinals. The sophomore began the day with a 15-10 decision win that was followed with a 10-5 win over Wyandotte’s Alex Pena in the quarterfinals.
Like Garcia, Fisher will face a familiar foe in the championship round. The 220-pound championship will be a rematch of last week’s regional championship in Hutchinson between Fisher and Wichita South’s Kasdon Arehart. Arehart won the first meeting with a 7-4 decision.
The (state) finals is a whole new ballgame,”Lueders said. “We’ve been in the other position where we had a kid beat someone in the regional finals and then lostin the state finals. It’s one final match and you go out and give it everything you have.”
In the quarterfinal round, sophomore Couy Weil was edged out in a 1-0 decision while junior Ansony Quezada was pinned with 36 seconds left in the match.
Senior Dylan Servis fell to Garden City’s Jesse Nunez by a 7-2 decision in the semifinal round.
Dodge City’s Kenedy Escobedo, Devon Griego and Evan Darville bounced back from first round losses to pick up wins in the consolation bracket.
Day 2
Six of the eight members of the Dodge City High School wrestling team left the 6A state tournament in Wichita with a medal this weekend as the Red Demons finished sixth out of 31 teams with a team score of 103.
All eight Dodge City wrestlers won at least one match over the weekend.
“I was really pleased,” Dodge City head coach Lars Lueders said. ” I thought our kids wrestled their tails off, they put everything into the tournament and placing six out of eight (wrestlers) is pretty awesome. There are some guys who really came back in matches, some guys showed a lot of heart to place and some guys might not have placed as high as we wanted to but that’s part of the tournament.”
Senior Tylor Garcia and sophomore Marcos Fisher were the Red Demons top two finishers as both were the state runner-up in their respective weight class. Garcia fell to Manhattan’s Mason Wallace in a 6-5 decision. Garcia ended his Dodge City wrestling career as a three-time state place winner which include a pair of runner-up finishes.
Dylan Servis also wrapped up his time as a Red Demon by bouncing back from a semifinal loss by pinning his opponent in the consolation final to take third place. Fellow seniors Devon Griego and Kenedy Escobedo earned their first trip to the state tournament this season.
“Those guys mean so much to me and so much to the program,” Lueders said about the seniors. “They were great leaders, great teammates, they really felt like they were part of the family and got the family going. The way they modeled how to do things was perfect. I just can’t put into words what they mean for the program.”
After seeing limited varsity time as a freshman, sophomore Marcos Fisher took second place in the 220-pound bracket over the weekend.
“It’s pretty amazing when you look at it,” Lueders said. “There was a ton of comments from teams like ‘holy smokes, this kid has only been wrestling a few years.’ He’s improved so much and a lot of it falls back on him being a great kid.”
While the Red Demons did not have the lineup that Lueders envisioned that they would coming into the season, he believes this season will help the team going forward into next year.
“The kids did a really good job of buying into our family and character aspects,” Lueders said. “That really got our program back on track. Last year we had a lot of issues being good teammates and caring about the team. So they really got that back on track and that’s extremely important.”
RESULTS
113 – Couy Weil (35-9) placed 5th and scored 12.00 team points
120 – Kenedy Escobedo (28-16) placed 6th and scored 12.00 team points
126 – Devon Griego (2018) place is unknown and scored 1.00 team points
145 – Tylor Garcia (39-6) placed 2nd and scored 20.00 team points
182 – Dylan Servis (39-9) placed 3rd and scored 22.00 team points
195 – Ansony Quezada (35-11) placed 5th and scored 13.00 team points
220 – Marcos Fisher (29-9) placed 2nd and scored 20.00 team points
285 – Evan Darville (11-11) place is unknown and scored 3.00 team points
6A TOP 10 TEAM SCORES
1. Manhattan 170 2. Haysville-Campus 148.5 3. Garden City 147.5 4. Olathe North 142.5 5. Derby 130 6. Dodge City 103 7. Topeka Washburn Rural 88 8. Wichita South 87.5 9. Olathe South 69 9. Wichita Northwest 69
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