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WICHITA – Seasons change, but Ellis junior Avery Boydston’s general feeling about competing in different classifications from her friend and Mid-Continent League counterpart, Smith Center’s Madison Howland, during the postseason has not. “Oh, yes, very happy with that,” Boydston said after winning the Class 1A 1,600 and 3,200 titles at the State Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

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Anyone running into Ethan Gaschler immediately after last year’s State Outdoors Track and Field Championships might never have known that he had just captured the first state title of his career. Instead, they would have encountered a man on a mission. “You would not believe how much extra I was doing last summer,” Gaschler said. “All summer, it was like the state track meet was the next day how hard I was working. It was intense.”The source of Gaschler’s motivation?

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BELOIT – Hours after a record-setting performance from the East in the Kansas 8-Man Division II All-Star Game, the Division I game saw the West All-Stars stake their own claim for most dominant team. The East’s 58-0 win in the Division II game set the record for largest margin of victory in the 40-year history of the event, but the record was short-lived after the West blitzed the East 72-0 in the DI game at Trojan Field.

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BELOIT – Burlingame’s JD Tyson enjoyed a record-setting day through the air as the East rolled to a 58-0 victory over the West in the Kansas 8-Man Division II All-Star Game on Saturday at Trojan Field. Tyson matched his jersey number with eight touchdown passes in the rout, shattering the previous record of six in the 40-year history of the event. The East opened up its aerial assault early, starting with a 46-yard bomb to Frankfort’s Carter Olson on the first possession.

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GREAT BEND – Pittsburg St. Mary’s Colgan coach Mike Watt could tell senior Brady Vanbecelaere was chomping at the bit to take the mound in Thursday’s quarterfinal of the Class 2-1A state tournament. The Panthers had a difficult first-round draw against Thomas More Prep-Marian, and Vanbecelaere answered the call with a huge with a complete-game shutout. “A few days before the game, he kept asking the assistant coaches, ‘Am I getting to pitch that first game?’” Watt said.