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Stockton Tiger senior Leighton Colburn won the Buzz Matson Invitational Wrestling Tournament held last Saturday in Oberlin.

Last Tuesday Stockton hosted Victoria in a non-conference game with the Tiger Boys holding on for a 43-39 victory, but the Lady Tigers falling 60-30. The first half of the boys’ game was a slow one with neither team finding their stride.

WESTERN KANSAS ELITE CLUB VOLLEYBALL 15-1 TEAM competed in the 16s Division at the FSC Showdown in Andover on January 3rd. They brought home a second-place finish to kick off their club season.

The Stockton Wrestling Club sent four wrestlers to Ellis this past Saturday where Zeke Balthazor, Cole Flower and Judsten Cockrell competed in the Ellis Open and William Bigge was a participant in the Ellis Novice Tournament.

The Stockton Tigers faced the Oakley Plainsmen in the 7 vs. 10 seed match-up of the boys’ 2020 Mid-Continent League Basketball Tournament play-in games last Saturday in Stockton.

Last Friday the Stockton Tigers’ trip to Hill City wasn’t very kind to them as both Tiger teams were defeated by the Hill City Ringnecks in Mid-Continent League basketball action. The Stockton girls fell to the Lady Ringnecks 53-24, while the Tiger boys came out on the short end of a 60-36 score.

Following their exciting 53-48 win on Monday over the Plainville Cardinals, the Stockton Tigers will now take on the Russell Broncos in the ninthplace game this Thursday in Stockton. The game is scheduled to start at approximately 7:30 p.m.

Last Saturday in Plainville the Stockton Lady Tigers played Norton for the second time in eight days. This time the 12th-seeded Lady Tigers were taking on fifthseeded Norton in the play-in games of the 2021 Mid-Continent League Basketball Tournament.

LADY TIGER SENIOR Logan Winklepleck shoots a threepointer during action at Hill City last Friday..

KAMERAN HAMEL pushes the ball up the floor for an uncontested layup after stealing it from his Hill City opponents in action last Friday..