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After the first game of the season against the Liberal Rattlers was rained out, the Bee Jays opened the summer with a game against the Gameday Angels Friday at Brent Gould Field.

Drew Gartman led the Bee Jays with three hits in an 8-5 win.

Liberal took an early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first before the Angels before the Angels rallied for a pair of runs in the second to take a 2-1 lead.

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Seward County Community College volleyball head coach Jelena Cohaderevic has announced the hiring of Jessie Jerome as an assistant coach.

A native of Rawlins, Wyo., Jerome joins the Saints after closing her playing career at Henderson State University.

She was a senior setter for the Reddies in 2025, appearing in 17 matches and 40 sets. Before Henderson State, Jerome spent the 2024 season at Manhattan University, where she earned MAAC All-Academic Team honors as a junior.

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Seward County Community College women's soccer head coach Marcela Bueno has announced the hiring of Nathalia Luiz as assistant coach.

Luiz, a native of Porto Alegre, Brazil, joins the Saints after Bueno led the program through the 2025 season without an assistant coach.

Luiz comes to Seward after playing two seasons at Missouri Southern State University, where she was a starter for the Lions. She was named to the MIAA Academic Honor Roll in 2025 and led the team in goals and assists during the 2024 season.

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Seward County Community College women's basketball head coach Antwain Scales has announced the hiring of Brad Zinn as the Lady Saints assistant coach.

Zinn, a veteran assistant with deep Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference experience, comes to Liberal after spending the past five seasons on staff at Garden City Community College.

He joined Garden City in 2021 while Scales was the Broncbusters' head coach and remained with the program after Scales departed, serving under head coach Greg Franklin, who left Garden City earlier this spring.