Katie Fiedler of Canton-Galva sprints to a second place finish with a time of 12.66 in the Class 2A 100-meter dash. She also placed eighth in the 200. Phyllis Richert CANTON-GALVA Kate Fielder led the Eagles at the state meet with a silver medal in the 100 meters. The junior posted the second fastest time in the preliminaries at 12.81 […]

Marion kicked off the Cougar Classic tournament Thursday with a pair of victories. The girls defeated Wakefield, 47-29. The boys defeated Solomon, 72-57. Girls—The Marion girls opened play in the Cougar Classic tournament with a 47-29 victory over Wakefield Thursday. Kourtney Hansen scored eight points in the first quarter to lead Marion to a 15-4 lead by the first break. […]

Sub-state basketball seedings for Centre, Goessel and Peabody-Burns were released Wednesday. Goessel will host a Class 1A, Division I sub-state, where the Centre boys have received the No. 1 seed and a first-round bye with a 14-5 record. The Cougars will await the winner of No. 4 Little River (11-9) and No. 5 Goessel (7-13), a game to be played […]

Five Centre FFA members traveled to Kiowa to participate in the South Central District FFA Meats Evaluation Career Development Event. Mem­bers competing were Cole Srajer, Greg Oborny, Austin Peterson, Payton Harms and Davi Salgado. In this contest individuals had to identify different retail cuts from beef, pork or lamb species. They also judged two different classes of animal carcasses and […]

Centre High School and Middle School have released the honor roll for the first semester of the 2016-17 school year. Centre High School Honor roll (4.0) Brendon Bina, Kaitlynn Marler, Hannah Peterson, Alex Stika, Katrina Basore, Meghan David, Cole Srajer, Max Svoboda, Ryan August. Honor roll (3.99-3.5) Daniel Rudolph, Kaitlin Brunner, Dylan Deines, Cole Methvin, Valerie Craney, Greg Oborny, James […]

<p>Blaine Mermis shoots for two against Wakefield Saturday. Mermis led all scorers with 15 points in Marion’s 52-37 fifth-place victory.</p><p>Janae Rempel / Free Press</p> The fourth-seeded Marion boys won their final two games at Centre’s Cougar Classic to finish fifth in the tournament Saturday. Marion 52, Wakefield 37 Marion put together a solid performance in its fifth-place win over the […]

The Marion basketball teams won their final games of the Cougar Classic Saturday. The boys defeated Wakefield, 52-37 to finish fifth in the tournament. The girls defeated Centre, 37-34, to win the championship. Blaine Mermis Boys—Marion put together a solid performance in its 52-37 win over Wakefield Saturday. Leading 6-5, the Warriors outscored Wakefield, 15-2, in the final 5:07 of […]

The Goessel volleyball team will be the No. 1 seed in the Class 1A, Division I sub-state hosted by Peabody-Burns Saturday. The Bluebirds (35-1) will have a first-round bye, and will face the winner of the 2 p.m. matchup between No. 4 Peabody-Burns (6-21) and No. 5 Burlingame (4-22). The other half of the bracket features No. 2 Rural Vista […]

Click here to view 2016 state track photos of athletes from Canton-Galva, Centre, Goessel, Hillsboro, Marion and Peabody-Burns. Contributing photographers include: Don Ratzlaff, Janae Rempel and Phyllis Richert. Photos marked “PR” may be purchased from photographer Phyllis Richert. She may be reached by email at: phyl@photosbyphyl.com. View her website at: www.photosbyphyl.com

Sub-state pairings for Canton-Galva, Centre, Goessel and Peabody-Burns have been released. Unless otherwise noted, first-round games will be played on the home court of the higher seed, while remaining games will be played at the host site. CANTON-GALVA Girls?The Eagles (11-9) have received the No. 3 seed in the Class 2A sub-state hosted by Ell-Saline. Canton-Galva will host No. 6 […]