Sports

After weeks of practice in hot weather conditions, high school football teams got their seasons underway last week.

The Cheynne Wells Boys’ Golf team hosted the Cheyenne Wells Invitational Golf tournament at the Smoky River Golf Course in Cheyenne Wells on Friday, Aug. 18.

Experienced coaches will tell you that to win a championship in any sport the team has to have a lot of luck. That is the first and foremost ingredient needed.

Kit Carson head coach Curt Connelley is heading into his 7th season at the helm of the Wildcat program following in the shoes of legendary coach Jim Trahern. Connelley’s team a year ago was only 2-7 and didn’t win a league game during the season.

The Cheyenne Wells Tigers advanced to the state playoffs a year ago but would fall to Otis in the quarterfinals. Despite that success, the team was young and inexperienced coming off a state championship season the year before after which they lost most of their players to graduation.

Granada heads into its sixth season of playing in the 6-Man ranks.

The Holly Wildcats are coming off their sixth appearance in the Class A 8-man state playoffs in the last seven years under veteran head coach Dayne Eaton.

The head coach carousel continues for the Wiley Panthers football program.

The McClave Cardinals football team is coming off their second straight winning season after going winless in 2020.

The Cheyenne Wells golf team came through with a runner-up finish in Burlington on Tuesday, Aug. 15 while Eads settled for 6th place in the 11-team tournament.

In their second tournament of the season the Tigers traveled to the Yuma Invitational on Friday, August 11.

The Lamar Thunder Softball team took to the softball diamond on Tuesday, Aug. 15 for their home and seasoner opener and defeated the combined team of Wray/Yuma in a major decision, 15-0.

The Wiley Panthers softball team consisting of players from Wiley, Eads, and McClave continued to roll along in a dominating fashion as they hosted Florence in Wiley on Tuesday and handed them two dominating defeats in big scores of 22-0 and 15-0.

Wiley used two different pitchers, both dominant, in their double header wins. They included senior Bethany Summers in game won who had 9 strikeouts and gave up just one hit in the Game 1 shut out win; and freshman Anna Wollert in Game 2 who gave up one run on two hits, striking out 5 Cougars.

Austin Adamson is in his fifth year as the head coach of the Lamar Thunder Softball team and is ready to take care of some unfinished business from a year ago. At the 3A State Softball Tournament the Thunder lost in the state semifinals to University, in extra innings, 10-9, dashing their impressive run towards the state championship.

For the first time in many years the Eads Boys’ Golf team finished in the top 4 at the annual Grizzly Invitational Golf Tournament held at the Cottonwood Links Golf Course on Tuesday, August 8th.