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Red Demon Swim team results from Newton

December 6, 2017 By DCHS Sports

Red Demons open 2nd season with 7th place finish

Shelton Burch

Sports Editor

The Dodge City Red Demons boys swimming team opened their second season on Thursday, competingin the Newton Invitational.

The Red Demons finished seventh at the event.

“It went really well,” Red Demons head coach Kaitlyn Paul said. “I was very impressed. We had a lot of kids who got best times compared to last year’s times, so it just shows me that as a program we are getting stronger and we’re going in the right direction.”

Allen Richter was among

the team’s best performers Thursday, finishing fifth in the 500-meter freestyle in a time of 6:12.19. He also finished 8th in the 200meter freestyle. Jonathan Austin also performed well, finishing seventh in the 200-meter individual medley.

Paul said the team performed better in this year’s event, specifically in some of the non-swimming details.

“Last year’s first (event) there was a lot of confusion,” Paul said. “There was a lot of not (being) sure where they were supposed to be and what they were doing. This year my veterans really stepped up and walked into the room with confidence and were ready

to go at the meet and that confidence spilled over into the beginners who are just starting their first year.”

That allowed the newer swimmers also to be more confident, Paul said.

“This year we were a lot more confident compared to last year,” Paul said.

The Red Demons boys swimming team is next scheduled to compete in Great Bend, Kansas next Tuesday at Great Bend-Barton Community College. The meet is scheduled for 4 p.m.

Newton Invitational 11-30-17 Results

DCHS Sports Round-up 4/25

April 26, 2017 By DCHS Sports

DCHS Swimming

The Lady Demons’ swim team finished 2nd on Monday at the Hays Girl’s Invitational with an overall team score of 512. Campus High School took first, scoring 512 team points. Dodge City had multiple first place finishes including Hannah Sowers finishing atop the leader board in the 100 and 200 yard freestyle, Gabby Mendoza finishing first in the 200 yard IM, Grace Harvey finishing first in the 100 yard backstroke and the relay team consisting of Sowers, Harvey, Ali Phelps and Payton Magouirk finishing first in the 400 yard freestyle relay.

The Lady Demons will hit the road again to compete in a meet in Great Bend on Friday.

DCHS Softball

Dodge City added another two road wins to their collection on Tuesday as they swept Ulysses 14-12 and 22-1. The wins move the Lady Demons to 9-3 on the season and help rebound from last weeks sweep from conference foe Great Bend. Game one was back-and-fourth throughout the entire seven innings. Down two going into the 7th, Dodge City turned three hits, a walk and a hit-by-pitch into a two-run lead allowing senior pitcher Emily Stephenson and the defense to shut Ulysses down in the bottom of the inning to get the win.

Game two marked the fourth time this season that Dodge City has scored 20 or more runs in a game as the Lady Demons wrapped

up the sweep after only four innings. After 10 straight games on the road, Dodge City will return home next Tuesday to take on rival Garden City.

DCHS Girl’s Soccer

The Dodge City girl’s soccer remains undefeated in conference play after holding on to a 1-1 tie on the road versus rival Garden City. The tie was their second of the season and they are now 6-2-2 overall this season and 3-0-1 in WAC play. Lilliana Vazquez scored the Lady Demons only goal. The Lady Demons will play their third of four straight road games on Thursday when they take on Great Bend.

Lady Demons compete at intersquad meet

April 20, 2017 By DCHS Sports

Parents of DCHS swimmers got a chance to see the team in action on Tuesday.

By Timothy Everson

The Dodge City High School swim team got their chance to show their stuff to a home crowd as they hosted the Red and Blue swim meet on Tuesday.

The intersquad meet consisted of 10 events and allowed for parents and family of swimmers to see them in action since the team did not have a home meet this season.

“It’s a great opportunity for the kids to show off to their parents,” head coach Kaitlyn Paul said. “We end up traveling a long ways for our meets. Garden City is the closest place that we go and everywhere else is far away so it’s really nice to have that opportunity for parents to come see their kids swim.”

The meet also took time to honor the team’s seven seniors who will be graduating in May. The seniors consist of Grace Harvey, Hannah Sowers, Gabby Mendoza, Abigail A. Ortiz, Ali Phelps, Valeria Lara and Alicia Trejo.

This season is Paul’s first so this year has been her only opportunity interact with the outgoing senior but she understands the void that will be left when they graduate.

“I’ve got to know the girls in the short time I’ve been here and they’re wonderful,” “They’re leaders, they’re here to help each other and out we’ll have some very talented girls who are getting ready to leave us so it’s going to be put on those underclassmen to recruit this year to get us where we want to be in the years following.”

Even though the meet didn’t count for anything, the competitive spirit was still high at the Dodge City YMCA and teammates yelled and screamed for each other throughout the entire meet.

Even though the team is fairly small, they’ve done rather well so far this season, qualifying more than a few times this year for the state tournament, working their way to hopefully qualify as a team.

“I’m really proud of how the girls have done so far,” “We have several things that have already qualified for state, we have consideration times for things that are getting ready to qualify for state. The girls had a fairly large team last year and between seniors and people graduating early, it was a much smaller team this year but even with that they’ve still been able to compete with other teams and taking as many points as possible. It’s really exciting.”

The Lady Demons will head north to Salina on Friday to compete at Salina South High School.

Red Demon Round-up April 11th

April 14, 2017 By DCHS Sports

DCHS Girls Swimming

Dodge City finished third on Tuesday at the Garden City Quad.

Individually, Hannah Sowers finished second in the 100-yard freestyle while posting a state qualifying time of 58.28, Grace Harvey finished

second in the 100-yard backstroke posting a state consideration time of 1:09.42.

The 200 free relay has a state consideration time and is .06 seconds away from a qualifying time.

Also, the 200 yard freestyle relay team consisting of Sowers, Hayden Sanchez,

Payton Magouirk and Gabby Mendoza finished second with a time of 1:52.43 which was .06 seconds away from being a state qualifying time.

The teams next meet is on April 21 at Salina South High School.

DCHS Boys Golf

The Dodge City boys golf team placed second in the invitational in Guymon, Oklahoma.

The Red Demons shot a 307 which was only seven strokes behind the first place Guymon Tigers.

All five golfers for Dodge City finished in the top five led by Canyon Owens and Matthew Vogel who tied for fifth shooting a 75. In addition to them, Dylan Ratts finished 7th with a 78, Luke Gleason finished 8th with a 79 and Payson Hatfield finished int 10th with a 84.

The Red Demons will be in action a week from today, hosting their meet at Mariah Hill Golf Course.

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.