PARKVILLE – Dating back to 2022, the Park Hill girls’ soccer team (3-8) has struggled at the Park Hill District Soccer Stadium and has now won back-to-back games there.
PARKVILLE – In the aftermath of 80 minutes of scoreless rivalry soccer through regulation, it only took Park Hill South (9-0) 73 seconds of extra play to send Park Hill (1-6) home with its third overtime loss of the season on April 2.
DEARBORN – Coming off a one-run, 11-inning heartbreaking loss against Lawson (9-1), North Platte played stellar baseball through two innings against St. Joseph Christian (3-1) before a thunderstorm caused a postponement on April 1.
KANSAS CITY – Like many seasons in the past, Platte County, Park Hill and Park Hill South competed in the Staley Relays – an early season track and field meet that focuses on relays instead of individual races – on March 29.
PLATTE CITY – Deciding to partake in the early season Platte County Girls’ Soccer Invitational worked out well for Park Hill South (4-0), which walked away with a first-place finish.
PARKVILLE – Taking an early 3-0 lead and looking to snap a three-game losing skid at the time, the Platte County baseball team (2-5) let that lead slip away and Park Hill South (5-3) came out on top, 4-3, on March 20.
LIBERTY – Meeting up for the third time in 21 days, Park Hill South (15-12) and Staley’s (27-2) most recent matchup was the most important one, being the Class 6 District 8 Girls’ Basketball Championship at Liberty High School on March 4.
DEARBORN – Needing one more win to make it to the Class 2 Girls’ Basketball Final Four, North Platte (24-6) ran into the No. 1 ranked team in the state, Skyline (28-2), on March 1.
OAK PARK - The fourth quarter of the postseason matchup between Park Hill and Liberty took 30 minutes and the 17-point comeback came up short in the packed Oak Park Gymnasium on Feb. 29.
NORTH KANSAS CITY - The season ended the same way for Park Hill South each of the last five years, a loss to Staley.
COLUMBIA - Over the span of four days, 30 athletes from the five school in Platte County competed at state wrestling at Mizzou Arena.
DEARBORN - Being tied with top-seeded University Academy in the final seconds without two starters who had fouled out, Blair McHenry beat the buzzer to send the West Platte girls’ basketball team to a district championship for the first time since 1996.
GOWER - In what ended up being the greatest season that the North Platte boys’ basketball program has had in nearly 20 years ended with a tough playoff loss when East Buch drilled 11 shots from downtown on Feb. 20.
KANSAS CITY - It took two seasons and four tries, but Kennedi Dorrell was finally able to lead the Park Hill girls’ basketball team past Park Hill South on Feb. 8.
DEARBORN - Courtwarming lived up to the hype for the North Platte boys’ basketball team, which needed the home crowd to help hold off Lawson (7-12) in a dramatic fashion on Feb. 6.
DEABORN - In what was a relatively even game in three of the four quarters of play, the North Platte girl’s basketball team (18-4) used a strong second period to hold a double-digit margin over Lawson (13-8) and defeat yet another KCI Conference foe on Feb. 6.
PARKVILLE – Only 11 days removed from losing to North Kansas City (16-5) by 26 points in the Hornets’ boys’ basketball tournament, Park Hill South (7-14) nearly pulled off the upset against the same opponent at home on Jan. 30.
NORTH KANSAS CITY – Having won the North Kansas City Girls’ Basketball Tournament each of the last two years, Park Hill South (10-8) had the opportunity to three-peat in the championship game against Blue Valley North (11-2) on Feb. 2.
DEARBORN - The North Platte boys’ basketball team (13-5) made a late surge to close out the third quarter, but Mid-Buchanan (11-6) responded to survive 60-54 in the 7th Annual Kemper Crossover on Jan. 25.
One season after meeting in the North Platte Invitational Tournament Championship, the West Platte boys’ basketball team (8-7) fell to Platte Valley (15-1) in the semifinals on Jan. 25.
KANSAS CITY – The boys and girls had similar scores – and the same result – when Park Hill and Park Hill South met up for a wrestling dual on Jan. 17.
PARKVILLE – Being back on their home floor for the first time in over a month, the Park Hill South girls’ basketball team (7-6) got out of a dry spill with a victory over rival Park Hill (6-8) on Jan. 18.
KEARNEY – Despite losing two of its three games in the tournament, Platte County (7-6) walked away from the Kearney Boys’ Basketball Tournament with a second-place finish.
KEARNEY – With the chance to take third place in a tournament for the first time since 2021, the weather interfered, and the Park Hill girls’ basketball team (5-7) couldn’t play.
PARKVILLE – The atmosphere was imminent in the annual rivalry basketball game between Park Hill (7-5) and Park Hill South (6-6) as the traveling Trojans walked away with the victory on Jan. 5.
LIBERTY – Looking to make it to the championship game in its respective bracket of the William Jewell Boys’ Basketball Holiday Classic for the second time in the last three seasons, Park Hill South (5-5) lost its opening game for the first time since 2017.
INDEPENDENCE – In the most one-sided girls’ basketball game early on this season, Platte County (5-2) over-performed Van Horn (4-4) in every facet of the 65-13 beatdown on Dec. 14.
KANSAS CITY – In one of the biggest high school wrestling tournaments in the early season, Platte County, Park Hill and Park Hill South had some impressive moments at the KC Stampede at Bartle Hall on Dec. 16.
PARKVILLE – Leading 35-31 with 5:15 remaining, the Park Hill South girls’ basketball team (2-2) scored the final 11 points to take down St. Teresa’s Academy (3-3) on Dec. 7.
KANSAS CITY – In the month of April, the only baseball team who has been able to beat Platte County (11-9) was Staley (15-6) on April 18.