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The most decorated distance runner in Salina Central history has committed to be a Tar Heel.
Junior Katelyn Rupe, the only Central boy or girl cross country runner to win a state title, announced on social media recently her intention to the University of North Carolina for the 2025-26 season.
Let's go "In the Circle" with Salina Ortho, Kansas Pregame's look at some top softball stories from across the state, presented by Central Kansas' largest Orthopedic's Practice, Salina Ortho.
Let's go "Around the Horn" with Salina Ortho, Kansas Pregame's look at some of the top baseball stories from across the state, presented by Central Kansas' largest Orthopedic's Practice, Salina Ortho.
After 17 years as head coach of the Hoxie wrestling program, Mike Porsch is stepping aside to pave the way for a new leader. Porsch has coached the Indians to the last four 3-2-1A State Championships, including a record-breaking 2023 victory that saw the Indians score 260 points, more than twice that of second place Norton. A Hoxie graduate and standout wrestler for the Indians in the late 1980s, Porsch went on to serve as an assistant to Hall of Fame coach Kirk Baker for 10 years before taking over for him after his retirement in 2006.
In a time when men and women have left officiating in droves, William Ast has stepped up in a big way.
The 19-year-old 2023 Ingalls High graduate has been reffing four and sometimes five nights a week on top of being a full time student at Garden City Community College.
“I’ve loved officiating ever since elementary school and it’s always been something that I’ve wanted to do,” said Ast, a standout hurdler at Ingalls. “Plus there’s such a shortage of officials right now, I thought it would be good to help.”
Let's go "Around the Horn" with Salina Ortho, Kansas Pregame's look at some of the top baseball stories from across the state, presented by Central Kansas' largest Orthopedic's Practice, Salina Ortho.
Let's go "In the Circle" with Salina Ortho, Kansas Pregame's look at some top softball stories from across the state, presented by Central Kansas' largest Orthopedic's Practice, Salina Ortho.
*Just two weeks after we posted this feature on Scott City senior Cheyenne Cramer reaching the 600 career strikeout milestone, she has now recorded her 700th career strikeout in action last night against Garden City. The Beavers swept 6A Garden City in a doubleheader by scores of 10-0 and 3-0 and improved to 15-3 on the season.
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CHASE - There may not be a better inspirational story in the state than the one developing here in rural central Kansas.
The Chase Kats have a real life hero these days. He’s 4-foot-7, 95-pound sophomore Layd’n Hinderliter, who the past eight years has battled cancer. He was eight when he was told he had Neuroblastoma Stage 4 cancer, a rare form of cancer that develops in nerve tissue.
