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The Redskins faced two teams in the Kansas City area over the weekend and dropped both games.
Liberal fell to Blue Valley 1-0 with the lone gaol coming after a hand ball in the Liberal box led to a penalty kick.
ULYSSES — The first two plays for the Liberal Redskins offense were touchdowns against a struggling Ulysses defense still looking for the team’s first win of the season. The scoring frenzy continued for Liberal in a 53-6 blowout win.
The Redskins started with a 67-yard bomb form Tevin Cotter to James Fieser 14 seconds into the game, and after a Max Holman interception, Ayden Juarez broke a 26-yard touchdown run, and Liberal had a 13-0 lead in the first 65 seconds of the game.
Eisenhower and Seymour Rogers middle schools played the annual Crosstown Clash at Redskin Field, and each school claimed a victory.
The Apache seventh graders won in a runaway, 36-8.
The Apaches took the first play from scrimmage 62 yards for a touchdown run by Kaden Olvera, and the Apaches had a 6-0 lead.
But the Warrior defense was able to get some stops on the next two possessions.
Suain Moncayo continued to extend his school record number of goals in a career Tuesday by adding two more to his tally in a 3-2 road win over Hays Tuesday.
Moncayo tied the school record against Garden City two weeks ago with a penalty kick that gave him 58 goals, and then he shattered the record with another record, scoring seven goals against Hesston to set the record at 65 goals in a season while scoring the most goals in a single game for a Redskin.
Seward County returned to the Green House on Wednesday afternoon for a match against the Pratt Beavers, who built a dam in their previous contest which the Lady Saints broke down with an emphatic 3-1 win to maintain their positioning in the Jayhawk standings entering the final stretch of the 2024 regular season.
