LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Kansas football's fourth quarter comeback in the 2018 season opener was cut short by Nicholls in the final minutes of regulation as the Colonels forced overtime and scored the game-winning touchdown to down the Jayhawks, 27-23. It was the Colonels' rushing presence that outdueled the Kansas passing game Saturday night at David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium. NSU finished the ga...
The first week of the high school football season is in the books. Salina-area teams generally had good success for the first week of 2018 with six of the eight area Salina teams pulling home wins. SCORES FROM FRIDAY, AUG. 31: Salina Central 44, Goddard-Eisenhower 7 McPherson 21, Salina South 0 Southeast of Saline 39, Sacred Heart 0 Ell-Saline 48, Sterling 7 Minneapolis 46, Republic Cou...
The Mark Sandbo era started off in style at Salina Stadium, as Salina Central thumped Goddard-Eisenhower 44-7 in front of a packed house. The Mustangs showed minimal signs of being a team with an 18-game losing streak. The win was Central's largest since a 51-13 thrashing of Haysville-Campus on October 2, 2015. Salina Central gave Goddard-Eisenhower a short field on their opening possession....
Five Minneapolis Lions players found the endzone Friday night, as the Lions defeated the Republic County Buffaloes on the road, 46-8, to start the 2018 season. Minneapolis racked up 461 yards of total offense with 395 rushed on the ground. Republic County opened the game with the football. The Buffaloes fumbled on their first play from scrimmage on an option-pitch from Quarterback Tate Lapo ...
The Abilene Cowboys cruised to a 30-6 victory on the road at Clay Center behind the legs and hands of running back James Mayden. The 6’ 180 Senior shredded the Tigers for unofficially 314 total yards and five touchdowns in the game. He had a total of five touchdowns last year in Abilene’s 2-7 injury plagued season. The Cowboys went to Mayden early and often behind a veteran group of off...
The Salina South Cougars had a tough start to the 2018 high school football season. The Cougars went on the road to McPherson and came home on the short end of a 21-0 score. McPherson scored the only points of the first half and never looked back. The Bullpups got on the board with 4:32 left in the first quarter on a Jace Kinnamon 51 yard sprint to the end zone. South blocked the PAT. The sco...
The Ell-Saline Cardinal football squad began the 2018 season with a stellar effort in a 48-7 victory over the Sterling Black Bears Friday night in Brookville. Ell-Saline never trailed in the contest, taking a 7-0 lead with 8:34 to play in the first quarter on a 16-yard touchdown pass from senior quarterback Nick Davenport to junior tailback Luke Parks. Parks struck again late in the first qu...
Although Friday night was the first game of the 2018 season for both teams, the result was awfully familiar; Southeast of Saline walking away from the Saline County rivalry with a win--their fifth-in-a-row over Sacred Heart, 39-0. After a slow start in the first quarter from both teams, the Trojans got things going midway through. SES split time between two QBs: Jaxson Gebhardt and Seth Eklund,...
Smoky Valley scored early and often as the Vikings raced out to a 24-0 highlighted by a late 85 yd touchdown run. Schrag scored first on a 32 yd run with 8:27 left in the 1st quarter Lambert added the 2 pt conversion and the Vikes led 8-0 they quickly scored again with 2:41 left on a 1yd Elliott run to make it 16-0 then Schrag took it 85 yds to end the quarter 24-0. a late 2nd quarter pass from Sc...
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