Iola High’s girls tennis team will travel to El Dorado Saturday for their Class 4A Regional Tournament, with berths for the upcoming state tournament on the line.
The top six singles and doubles teams will earn state bids. The Class 4A State Tournament is scheduled for Oct. 15 and 16 at Winfield’s T.H. Vaughan Tennis Center.
Meanwhile, local cross country and volleyball participants have a clearer picture of where their postseasons are destined now that the Kansas High School Activities Association has announced regional and substate assignments.
Cross Country
Regional meets Oct. 23
State meets Oct. 30
Iola’s harriers will be in Baldwin Oct. 23 for the Class 4A Regional Meet, for a shot at being in Wamego for state the following week. The top three teams will be statebound, as well as the top 10 individual runners, with the possibility of additional individual qualifiers.
Humboldt’s runners will be at the Fredonia Golf Course for their Class 3A Regional. The Class 3A State Meet also will be in Wamego Oct. 30.
Crest and Marmaton Valley runners will head to Wichita’s Cessna Activities Center for the Class 1A Regional. The top four teams and 10 individual runners from that meet will go to the state meet at Sand Plum Nature Trail in Victoria.
Volleyball
Substate tournaments Oct. 23
State tournaments Oct. 29-30
Iola’s Class 4A Substate destination won’t be known until after Oct. 18.
Class 4A is split into eastern and western divisions, with the top four teams in each division serving as substate hosts. Seedings will be doled out accordingly.
Winners of each substate move on to the State Tournament in Hutchinson.
Humboldt will host the Class 3A Substate Tournament, with Eureka, Fredonia, Anderson County, Prairie View, Neodesha and Osawatomie a part of the action. The winner will go the state tournament, also in Hutchinson.
Yates Center will be in Lyndon for the Class 2A Substate, along with Northern Heights, Mission Valley, Bishop Seabury Academy, Kansas City Christian, Central Heights and Maranatha Christian Academy.
The winner advances to state the following weekend in Dodge City.
Marmaton Valley will host Crest, Burlingame, Madison/Hamilton, Olpe, Oswego and St. Paul for the Class 1A-I Substate Tournament.
Both the Class 2A and 1A-I state tournaments are in Dodge City.
