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Red Demon Roundup Apr. 4th

April 6, 2017 By DCHS Sports

By: Tim Everson

DCHS Swimming

The Red Demon girls swim team finished in third place on Monday at a swim meet in Great Bend behind Hutchinson Central Christian School and Salina Sacred Heart High School. Dodge City was led by a first place finish in the 200-yard free relay with Hannah Sowers, Gabby Medoza, Hayden Sanchez and Payton Magouirk. In addition to that, the 200-yard medley relay team including Harvey, Sanchez, Ali Phelps and Abby Harding finished third and the 400-yard free relay team featuring Magouirk, Mendoza, Harvey and Sowers finished third. Individually Sanchez finished second in the 200-yard individual medley and second in the 100-yard fly, Sowers finished second in the 100-yard free, Harvey finished third in the 100-yard backstroke and Phelps finished third in the 100-yard breaststroke. The team will be back in action on April 11th at Garden City.

DCHS Softball

Sophomore right fielder Jessica Olivarez was named a MaxPreps/NFCA National High School Player of the Week on Monday representing the south-central region. Olivarez had a big start to her season, hitting .700 in Dodge City’s first four games off the season with two doubles, two home runs and eight RBIs.

“I’m very proud of her,” head coach Ashley Podschun said. “I’m very pleased with her. She’s been doing a great job in the outfield as well. She’s been doing what she needed to do and when I announced it to the team today, she was a little bashful but I think everyone was pretty proud of her.”

The Lady Demons had their triangle on Tuesday postponed but they will hopefully be back on the diamond on Thursday at Hays.

Lady Demons split season opening doubleheader

March 29, 2017 By DCHS Sports

Lady Demons split season opening doubleheader

By: Timothy Everson

Dodge City High School softball hit the diamond on Monday to open the 2017 season and walked away with a split with Thomas Moore Prep-Marian 3-14 and 8-5.

Things started off well for the Lady Demons in game one after falling behind 3-0 early in the first inning. A two-run home run for senior Emily Stephenson cut the lead to just one after the first inning.

“She brings a lot of experience,” head coach Ashley Podschun said of Stephenson. “She’s always been a big hitter. Overall she brought a great effort.”

After sophomore starter Raegan Lopp retired the side in the top of the second, senior Reiyna Cecil singled home the tying run.

Things quickly went downhill from there. With two outs in the third inning, Lopp gave up five runs followed by four more runs in the fourth, digging a 12-3 hole for Dodge City.

The Lady Demon offense was unable to help stop the bleed as they were held to just two hits in the third, fourth and fifth innings.

A wild pitch in the top of the fifth and a single scored two more runs, leaving Dodge City run-ruled 14-3 in the first game.

“That’s probably the quietest I’ve ever heard my girls,” Podschun said. “In practice, they’re never quiet. I think that jitters got to them. I told them to forget it and come back and play like I know that they can.”

In the second game, Stephenson

started and managed to only give up one run on three hits in the first five innings.

Meanwhile, the Dodge City bats went to work, recording three and fourrun innings in the second and third to stretch the lead to 7-1.

Junior Jessica Olivarez put a ball over the right field wall to start the fifth inning to give the Lady Demons a 8-1 lead.

“One thing we talked about is if our pitchers allow the other team to hit the ball our defense gets in a better groove,” Podschun said. “When our defense gets in that groove it helps us get into our offense a little better. If you notice they were a little more goofy and cheerful in the dugout and that plays into it. When they’re having fun, everything comes real easy.”

From there, Stephenson and Dodge City had to hold on tight as the Monarchs added three more runs on two hits in the sixth to cut the lead to four.

After only getting one hit in the bottom of the sixth, Dodge City just needed to hold on to their lead through three more outs to get the win.

TMP wouldn’t go away easily as they got one more run across leaving the bases loaded with no outs.

Even with Stephenson’s late game struggle, Podschun had no intention of bailing the senior out, she had to find a way out herself.

“Emily, for the most part, had done a good job of getting ahead of her batters,” Podschun said. “She was starting to get a little tired there at the end. She’s been dealing with a muscle pull and this is the most she’s pitched since then. I think as the year progresses

she’ll get stronger and she’ll be able to last a full seven like she did the first five, so I’m not too worried. But, overall, she did well tonight.”

Stephenson, who also pitched in relief during the final inning of game one, recorded two straight strikeouts and made the final put-out at first base to end the game and the comeback bid by the Monarchs.

The Lady Demons will now embark on a month long road stand starting with a doubleheader at Wichita-South on Friday before returning back to Legends Park to take on Garden City in a doubleheader.

2016 All-WAC Softball Team

June 1, 2016 By DCHS Sports

First Team All-WAC Selections

*1,Abbie Dart,11,P,Garden City

2,Alyssa Long,11,IF,Garden City

3,Morgan Kottas,12,IF,Great Bend

4,Jenna Greenlee,12,IF,Garden City

5,Hannah Honomichl,12,IF,Great Bend

6,Tessa Stickel,12,IF,Hays

7,Lauren Welsch,12,OF,Great Bend

8,Jordan Terrones,12,OF,Garden City

9,Alex Stecklein,12,OF,Dodge City

10,Laura Farmer,10,IF,Garden City

11,Shai Cartmill,12,IF,Garden City

12,Hunter Marcum,11,P,Great Bend
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*Player of the Year

Coach of the Year: Trina Moquette, Garden City

Honorable Mention

1,Kaci Finch,11,DP,Garden City

2,Rylee Crawford,12,OF,Garden City

3,Erykah Foster,9,C,Garden City

4,Kendal Sell,11,OF,Great Bend

5,Nicole Dinkel,12,IF,Hays

6,Albany Schaffer,12,OF,Hays

7,Madison Prough,12,DP,Hays

8,Kylie Brown,12,IF,Hays

9,Mattisyn Tieben,12,IF,Dodge City

10,Grace Ruehle,10,C,Dodge City

11,Alize Taum,11,OF,Liberal

12,Sarah Arriaga,12,IF,Liberal

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Red Demon Roundup

May 11, 2016 By DCHS Sports

DCHS RED DEMON ROUNDUP

Boys golf takes 3rd in WAC, softball team sweeps Liberal

By John Zetmeir

Dodge City Daily Globe

BOYS GOLF

Just four strokes stood between the Dodge City Red Demon boys golf team and a second place finish at the Western Athletic Conference championship meet on Tuesday in Liberal.

Both the Red Demons and Hays finished with team scores of 311 but the Indians’ fifth score of 83 edged out Dodge City’s of 87.

Dodge City’s Matthew Vogel shot a 74 to earn a third place individual finish. Sophomore Luke Gleason was the second Red Demon to earn an individual medal as his score of 77 was good enough for an eighth place finish.

Gleason was also named to the All-WAC team. Vogel, along with junior Dylan Ratts earned Honorable Mention honors.

The Red Demons will try to earn a trip to the 6A state tournament next Monday at regionals in Garden City.

SCORES

Vogel 74, Gleason 77, Ratts 80, Owens 80, Kessen 87,

Hatfield 89.

SOFTBALL

In their final doubleheader of the regular season, the Red Demons scored 36 runs on their way to a sweep over Liberal.

Dodge City (8-12, 2-6) scored eight runs in the top of the seventh inning of game two to beat the Redskins 22-8 in their final game of the season. The Red Demons shutout Liberal in game one as they picked up their first Western Athletic Conference win of the season with a 14-0 win.

RED DEMON ROUNDUP

May 4, 2016 By DCHS Sports

RED DEMON ROUNDUP

John Zetmeir Dodge City Daily Globe

SOFTBALL

The Red Demons came up just short against their Western Athletic Conference rivals Garden City in both games of Tuesday’s doubleheader.

Dodge City fell to the Buffaloes in a closely contested game one 3-1 and 6-1 in game two. The Red Demons will host Great Bend on Thursday for a doubleheader that has been postponed twice this season due to inclement weather.

GOLF

The Dodge City High School boys golf team had two individuals earn individual medals as the Red Demons finished in third place on Monday at Great Bend.

Matthew Vogel shot a 78 to take home the sixth place individual medal while sophomore Luke Gleason finished four strokes behind Vogel to earn an eighth place medal. The Red Demons tallied a team score of 329, which was seven strokes back of Hays who finished in second place.

The Red Demons will travel to Goddard Eisenhower on Thursday to make up for last week’s tournament in Hutchinson that was postponed due to weather.

Other scores

Dylan Ratts 83, Adam Kessen 86, Payson Hatfield 88, Canyon Owens 88.