Galena traveled to Cherryvale to face the Chargers who came into the substate as the second ranked team in the district on Tuesday of last week. Galena had an up and down season received the 7th seed in the substate playoff bracket with a regular season record of 5-15. Cherryvale’s defense was on full display in the first half holding […]
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Bulldogs Struggle in Fourth Quarter, Fall to Girard
The Bulldogs are used to making playoff runs as they have been Sub-State Champions four years in a row and Thursday night, they faced off against the number 1 seed in the district, Girard Trojans. Galena’s gameplan was to control the tempo and make quality shots. That strategy worked for them early in the game. Galena would win the battle […]
Rams cruise past Columbus to advance to Sub-Stats
The Titans came to Riverton last Monday to open the first round of the Sub-State last Monday and the Rams prevailed 69 to 47 in a game where they jumped ahead then let it become fairly close then opened up for a comfortable win. The Rams who appeared to be peaking for the year moving on had a balanced attack […]
Rams Pick Up Important Win Against Frontenac, Prepare to Face Girard in Sub-State Championship
The Rams took to the court Thursday night in the second round of the Sub-State tournament in Caney, KS. Their opponent 11-10 Raiders from Frontenac. Riverton jumped out to a quick 12-point lead in the first quarter, but Frontenac would storm back and with 3 minutes left in the first half and the lead cut to 21-18 coach Tucker Thompson […]
Riverton outlasts Baxter 68 to 62
The Lions from Baxter came to Riverton last Tuesday and after the Rams dominated them the first part of the game hung in and kept playing hard and made it somewhat interesting. On Senior Night the Rams began with all seniors who played well especially Zach Feldkamp who scored 5 of the first 6 Ram points and Riverton had It […]
Bulldogs Begin Substate with Win Over Caney Valley
Monday night marked the start the 2024 Class 3A Sub-State Playoffs. The Bulldogs enter substate this year with a record of 9-11 and earned a three-way tie with Caney Valley and Baxter Springs for fourth place in the district. After a coin flip, Galena landed with the fifth seed in the bracket which meant that they would have to travel […]
Boyes Finds Three-Pointer Success Amidst Slump for Lady Bulldogs
The Lady Bulldogs had two games at home last week. Both games were against district opponents with the Rams from Riverton on Tuesday night and the Titans from Columbus Friday night. In both games, the Bulldogs got off to a slow start in the first quarter falling behind against Riverton 16-9 and Columbus 17-1 after the opening period. In both […]
Harper big game North scores 1,000th Rams handle Galena
The Rams visited Galena to play the Bulldogs and cruised past them by the score of 65 to 43 on a night when Noah Harper had himself a huge game keeping the Rams comfortably ahead scoring 23 points and Loch North scored the milestone of 1,000 points in his career at Riverton getting a nice recognition from the Ram faithful. […]
Buzzer Beater Hands Galena a Homecoming Loss
Friday night was Homecoming, and the Bulldogs welcomed their rivals from Columbus to play in a late season matchup. Galena got off to a quick start Friday night and with Junior Jack Perry scoring 10 points in the first quarter Galena amassed a 15-5 lead in the first period of the game. The second quarter was filled with offensive missteps […]
Bulldogs Visited Second Ranked Panthers
The Varsity Bulldogs traveled to Pittsburg to visit the Panthers from Colgan Friday night. Galena and Colgan have played on two other occasions this season with Colgan getting the better of Galena in each matchup. This matchup was a tale of two halves. In the first half Galena and Colgan would trade blows back and forth. Each time one team […]