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One rocky inning in the season opener led to a loss for the Liberal Bee Jays to kick off the 2024 season, but better outings at the plate led to back-to-back wins in the final two games of the opening series for a 2-1 start to the season.
Liberal kicked off the season Saturday but only played three-and-a-half innings before a lightning delay and rain led to the game being postponed.
Liberal completed its athletic season for the school year Saturday at the Kansas State Track Meet in Wichita.
The boys 4X400 meter relay was the highlight with a third place finish with the team’s record time of the season in back-to-back weeks.
Bentley Fitzgerald qualified for State in the 400 meter dash but finished 12th in the preliminaries with a time of 1:01.51.
Grasshopper Soccer was Emmanuel Ortuño’s first experience with the game of soccer during his childhood in Liberal. He then played Kids Inc. and participated on traveling teams. He moved on to middle school and high school before becoming the first-ever soccer player to sign for Seward County Community College.
His journey with the game took him beyond Kansas and beyond the United States, and now Ortuño is chasing his dream of not only being a professional soccer player but also playing against some of the best soccer players on the planet.
The Liberal Redskins and Lady Redskins swept the 4X800 meter relays and qualified multiple athletes to the Class 6A State Track Meet.
The Redskins finished third as a team, and the Lady Redskins finished fifth.
Ivan Moreno (151 feet, 0 inches), Ayden Juarez (144 feet, 10 inches), and Xavier Tafoya (142 feet, 8 inches) swept the top three spots in the javelin to qualify for State.
Despite only allowing four hits and one earned run, Brooks Kappelmann didn’t get enough help at the plate in a 3-0 playoff loss to Derby that ended the season for the Liberal Redskins.
Kappelmann only allowed four hits in seven innings and only walked one while striking our eight, but three errors helped the Derby Panthers push three runs across the plate.
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