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Saturday, November 23, two members of Liberal Wrestling Club traveled to Amarillo to wrestle at the 2024 Raider Rumble.
Easton Lopez and Loukas Henry both wrestled in the Tot division. This was their first tournament for the 2024-2025 season. Lopez finished the tournament in first place with one pin, earning a champion ring. Henry finished in second place with one pin, earning a dog tag necklace.
ARKANSAS CITY — The Seward County Community College Lady Saints led Cowley College from start to finish en route to a 71-64 road win on Saturday afternoon.
The win got Seward back on track following a loss at Cloud County Wednesday. A poor shooting night doomed Seward in the loss against the Thunderbirds and Seward started off slow again, leading only 4-3 with under five minutes left the first quarter. But the shooting woes did not continue and the Lady Saints went on to a 16-9 edge after one quarter and held a 32-29 margin at the half.
ARKANSAS CITY — The struggles continued for the Seward County Community College men's basketball as it fell at Cowley College, 88-69, on Saturday.
After keeping the Saints kept it close in the first half, trailing only by two at the half, 43-41, it was all the Tigers in the second stanza. Cowley opened with a 5-0 run and never looked back.
All the things that went right for the No.4 Turpin Cardinals this season – sacks, blocked punts, and big plays – went wrong in a 66-18 loss to the No.3 Dewar Dragons Friday.
A fumbled shotgun snap on the first play from scrimmage followed up by a sack and a blocked punt shook a Turpin team that had steamrolled through most of their schedule. It took Dewar one offensive play to take a 6-0 lead less than a minute and a half into the game.
The Seward County Community College women’s basketball team could not survive a shooting night of under 20 percent and suffered a 57-53 road loss to Cloud County Community College Wednesday.
The Lady Saints fell to 0-1 in the Jayhawk Conference and 4-2 overall on the season. The Lady Saints next play at Cowley College at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 23.
