Sports

As it does each year, the Central City Wrestling Invitational provided plenty of excitement this past Saturday to highlight a great week of wrestling from the Central City High School wrestling team. The Bison were able to bring to secure some big wins on Saturday and returned to action on Tuesday with a dominant dual victory.

The Runza Holiday Classic did not get off to a great start for the Central City High School girls’ basketball team, but the young roster of players kept battling as they finished the tournament with a record-breaking performance to serve as their second win of the season and also a big confidence booster heading into the January portion of the schedule.

In recent years the history books at Central City High School have been updated to show plenty of success for the Bison basketball team as they have broken multiple team and individual records while seeing a level of success that hasn’t been seen for some time. Since 2013 the Runza Holiday Classic has been a tradition in Central City, but in all previous years the home team came short of hoisting the annual trophy.

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The High Plains Community Storm headed out of the holiday moratorium looking to finish 2022 strong and set the tone for the 2023 portion of their schedule. For the Lady Storm that is exactly what they accomplished as they were able to defeat both East Butler and Friend to be crowned the champions of the East Bulter Holiday Basketball Tournament.