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Lady Demons capture WAC title
Lady Demons capture WAC title
John Zetmeir
Dodge City Daily Globe
After winning their first five Western Athletic Conference games of the season, the Dodge City High School girls soccer team knew that to win a conference championship, they would have to win at least two of their final three games. All three of which would be played on the road.
The Red Demons began the final three game stretch with a 3-1 loss to Hays. On Monday, a 1-0 win over Garden City put Dodge City back in position to control its own destiny. On Thursday, the Red Demons (11-4-1, 7-1) finished off the season with a 2-1 win over Liberal to capture the WAC title outright.
Sophomore Mariyah Reyes, who scored two goals against the Redskins in the first match-up, found the back of the net two more times on Thursday.
Demon girls fall just short of WAC title; boys squad takes third
Fantastic finish
Demon girls fall just short of WAC title; boys squad takes third
John Zetmeir
Dodge City Daily Globe
It came down to the very end on the girls side between Dodge City and Garden City on Thursday afternoon at Memorial Stadium for the Western Athletic Conference track and field championships. The Buffaloes edged out the Red Demon girls by seven points to claim the conference title. On the boys side, Dodge City took third place with a total score of 81 points.
In the girls fin
al event of the day, the Red Demons fell to Garden City in the 4×400 meter relay by less than a second.
Four individuals on the Dodge City girls squad earned WAC titles. On the track, senior Brekk Flax earned gold in both the 100 meter and 200 meter dash. The senior standout also anchored the 4×100 meter relay team that outran the competition.
“Running in front of the home crowd is probably the greatest thing you could ever do,” Flax said. “It’s our only home meet so that helped a lot.”
Junior Tia Bradshaw added a pair of WAC titles for the Red Demons girls team as she out jumped the competition in both the girls long jump and triple jump events.
For the Dodge City boys, two individuals, as well as the 4×800 meter relay teams were crowned WAC champions on Thursday.
Junior Alex Ultreras finished off the individual events on the track with a bang as he set the Memorial Stadium record in the boys 3200 meter. After sitting in third place going into the final lap Ultreras, along with teammate Marcelo Cruz, raced neck and neck for the final 100 meters.
“The la
st lap, I was just thinking about getting the team some points,” Ultreras said. “Me and Marcelo gave it our best and we came in at one and two. Working as a team, is the best thing you can do and because of that, we won that race.”
Fellow junior Jason Luft, along with Ultreras and Cruz, helped the Dodge City boys to their only first place relay finish in the 4×800 meters. Luft also earned a WAC championship in the boys 800 meter run.
“I feel like we have a good chance to place at state,” Luft said about the 4×800 meter team. “We’ll just see how far we go. Regionals is next week so hopefully we can get a better time.”
The Red Demons will travel to Garden City next Friday for regionals.
200m Dash: Tyler Trent, 3rd, 23.22 400m Dash: Tyler Trent, 3rd, 51.82. 800m Run: Jason Luft, 1st, Felix Marquez,
5th,
1600m Run: Alejandro Ultreras, 2nd,
4:33.34.
3200m Run: Alejandro Ultreras, 1st, Marcelo Cruz 2nd.
110m Hurdles: Samuel Unruh, 4th, Jalen Gifford, 5th.
300m Hurdles: Dawson Williams, 3rd, Jalen Gifford, 4th.
4×100: Del Real, Gomez, Unruh, Morales,
3rd.
4×400: Marquez, Cruz, Calderon, Luft, 4th 4×800: Cruz, Marquez, Calderon, Luft,
1st, 8:08.20
Pole Vault: Jordan Dewell, 5th, Long Jump: Tyler Trent, 2nd. Triple Jump: Tyler Trent, 4th.
GIRLS:
100m Dash: Brekk Flax, 1st, 12.34. 100m Hurdles: Savana Wilson, 1st, Brianna Bradshaw 2nd.
300m Hurdles: Brianna Bradshaw 3rd, Savana Wilson, 4th.
200m Dash: Brekk Flax, 1st. 25.63 400m Dash: Jessie Harshberger, 1st, Chia Okoro, 2nd.
800m Run: Jessie Harshberger, 2nd, Mariela Aldaba, 5th.
1600m Run: Ayanna Hensley, 3rd, 5:39.30 4×100: Okoro, Page, Okoro, Flax, 1st,
49.87.
4×400: Okoro, Flax, Bradshaw, Harshberger, 2nd.
4×800: Harshberger, Duarte, Okoro, Aldaba, 1st, 9:57.04.
High Jump: Ezinne Okoro, 5th. Long Jump: Tia Bradshaw, 1st, Brianna Bradshaw, 4th.
Triple Jump: Tia Bradshaw, 1st, Brianna Bradshaw, 3rd.
Not yet satisfied
Red Demons eager for trip to state tournament
John Zetmeir
Dodge City Daily Globe
It would be easy for the members of the Dodge City High School boys tennis team to be satisfied with their season.
Last week, the Red Demons followed their first Western Athletic Conference championship in 27 years with the program’s first regional title in which the entire team qualified for the 6A state tournament.
With the competiti
ve nature that the Red Demons have displayed this season, head coach Mark Sandbo does not believe his team is ready to rest on their laurels just yet.
“Every year our goals have been bigger and bigger,” Sandbo said. “We’ve qualified a team to state but we’ve never won a WAC (title) and we’ve never won a regional. These guys have made additional climbs but they are by no means satisfied. They’ve got goals to make it to day two and they have goals to place.”
In singles play, junior Brett Groth (27-5) and senior Florian Kark (26-5) enter the 6A state tournament with the most wins of any singles player in the field. Kark has beaten Groth in the the championship match in both the WAC tournament and in last weekend’s regional tournament.
“Both bring a unique style to the type of competition that they play,” Sandbo said. “Brett frustrates really good players because he’s athletic enough to get balls back. Florian can hit with anyone that I’ve seen. His game will be unique to the state tournament as well.”
Kark, a foreign exchange student from Germany, has been the catalyst behind the Red Demons historic season. While he may have just spent one year in Dodge City, he shares the pride of the team’s accomplishments.
“To be one of the teams that got a plaque in the hallway is the biggest thing,” Kark said. “When you walk through there you can always say ‘look at this part of the wall, that’s our achievements.’” On the doubles side, Angel Salmeron and Maans Spaangaeng (23-9) along with Richard Rodriguez and Logan Waldman (2111) will represent Dodge City. Including Groth from the singles side, both Salmeron and Rodriguez played in the state tournament last season.
“What I like about this team is that they’ve been there before,” Sandbo said. “(Kark) hasn’t played in this tournament before but he’s played this level of competition. Everybody else, excluding Logan, has seen what it takes to not only win, but to compete at that level. I think there is a real intent to get some wins.”
Action will begin at Harmon Park at 11:30 a.m. on Friday.
Demons split with Falcons after walk-off win
Catching a break
By John Zetmeir
Dodge City Daily Globe
For a majority of the Dodge City High School baseball team’s season, the Red Demons have not been able to catch a break.
Whenever they have found themselves in a tightly contested affair, fortune always seems to swing in their opponent’s favor.
Going into their final regular season home game, the Red Demons suffered five home losses by three runs or less. One of which was a 3-0 loss to Wichita Heights to start the day on Tuesday.
With two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning of game two, Dodge City caught that illusive break when senior Eric Reid hit a single through the gap between second and third base that drove in junior Luke Royle for a 2-1 walkoff win.
“It feels good to finally get a break, I feel like we deserve it,” Reid said. “We work our butts off in practice. It hasn’t shown too much this year but we’re fighting and it’s nice to have this momentum carrying into regionals and hopefully we can get a state berth.”
Reid was 2-of-4 from the plate in game two and earned the win on the mound after one inning of relief. Senior Dayton McGroarty allowed just one run on five hits through the first six innings of game two.
It was Royle’s single earlier that inning that scored Dodge City’s first run of the evening. Royle advanced to second base on a fielder’s choice as Kaden Riekenberg crossed home plate to tie the game at 1-1. Riekenberg was pinch running for senior Tanner Tieben who reached first base on a Heights’ error.
“First off, Tanner Tieben hits a routine ground ball and busts his butt and forces the kid into a bad throw and that’s how it starts,” Dodge City head coach Zach Shipley said. “That’s what we’re talking about with these kids, if you play hard all the time. Its the little things like that.”
Dodge City (7-11, 0-8) fell to the Falcons in game one 3-0 after stranding 13 base runners. Senior Bryce Unruh was tagged with the loss despite allowing just two runs on four hits in seven innings on the mound.
The Red Demons had 13 seniors play their final home game on Tuesday. Shipley is hopeful that the walk-off win in game two will provide a spark for his senior laden team as they enter the final stretch of the season.
“These guys have to be the foundation,” Shipley said about the seniors. “We have days where they look really good and there are days that they don’t and I’ve got to understand that they are two and a half months into playing my style of baseball. It’s going to take awhile but I hope this snowballs and come next week, all of sudden we’re clicking on all cylinders. We can be a pretty scary team.”
Dodge City will finish up its regular season with a road trip to Derby on Friday. The Red Demons will begin postseason play next week.
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