Having won the last thirteen NCKL team championships, the Abilene Cowboys Tennis Team, with thirteen members on the squad, looks to rebuild this spring season.   

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The Abilene Cowgirls basketball season came to an end on the road in a first round Substate loss to the number one seed Wellington Lady Crusaders 44-24. 

After two consecutive trips to the 4A state basketball tournament, the Abilene Cowboys were defeated in the opening round substate game by the Rock Creek Mustangs 54-50 on the road Tuesday night.  

Chapman  senior wrestler Brayden Lexow wrapped up his high school wrestling career finishing in 4th place in the 215 pound weight class at the State Wrestling Tournament.  

With all seven wrestlers earning team points at the 4A State Wrestling Tournament in Salina over the weekend, the Abilene Cowboys finished in the top ten in eighth place.   

Chapman freshman Alyssa Calovich finishes her first  high school wrestling season as the 110 pound state champion in Class 4-1A.  After becoming the Regional Champion more than a week ago, Calovich convincingly made her way into the Championship match.  Her opponent in the Championship was S…

Abilene High School girls wrestlers Jo Hottman and Kaylee Weibert recently completed competing at the Class 4A-1A Girls State Wrestling Tournament in Salina.  

The Abilene Cowboys wrestling team earned the team Championship last weekend at the McPherson Regional. In all, seven wrestlers punched their ticket and qualified for the State Tournament this coming Friday and Saturday in Salina.  

Abilene girls wrestlers, junior Jo Hottman and freshman Kaylee Weibert both recently qualified for the Girls State Wrestling Tournament.  Both wrestlers advanced by placing within the top four placings at the Wellington regional tournament. Most impressive about the two wrestlers is that bot…

After trailing the Clay Center Tigers the entire game, the Abilene Cowboys took their first lead of the game with just 1:17 to go, and held on for a 52-48 comeback win at home Friday evening.  

The class 4A #1 state ranked, Wamego Lady Red Raiders cruised to a dominating win at home on Friday evening over the Abilene Cowgirls 74-25.

In an always difficult place to play, and  for the second year in a row, the Abilene Cowboys needed overtime to win at Wamego.  This time, Abilene survived a four overtime thriller to outlast the Wamego Red Raiders 65-57.  

The Abilene Cowboys wrestling team earned the North Central Kansas League title by way of defeating the Chapman Irish 73-6 in their final home dual of the season.

The Abilene Cowboys hosted the Concordia Panthers on Tuesday evening and lost 57-52.

The Concordia Lady Panthers used a strong second half surge to come from 13 points down to defeat the Abilene Cowgirls 44-30 Tuesday evening.  

NCKL rivals squared off in a dual on the wrestling mat last Thursday evening under the spotlight at Clay Center, and the Abilene Cowboys narrowly defeated the Clay Center Tigers 36-34. 

The Marysville Lady Bulldogs outlasted the Abilene Cowgirls for a victory at home Friday evening 42-38.  The Lady Bulldogs down one point entering the final quarter rallied to pull ahead with less than a minute to go in the game to win.  

The Abilene Cowboys traveled on the road Friday evening to play the Marysville Bulldogs, and fell short on a fourth quarter comeback to lose 56-51. 

With the Abilene wrestling team in full swing of a busy stretch of the season, three wrestlers recently won their 100th career match at the varsity level. Joining the prestigious group of members, this year are seniors Christopher McClanahan and Braden Wilson, along with junior Tucker Cell. …

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The Abilene Cowgirls returned to action on the road Friday evening and lost to the Thomas More Prep-Marion Monarchs 61-24. TMP took control of the game, by scoring 45 points in the first half.  

The Abilene Cowboys survived a last second shot attempt that barely missed, to beat the Salina Central Mustangs 52-51 for third place in the SIT.

The Abilene Cowgirls finished in sixth place overall in this last weekend’s Salina Invitational Tournament.  A big, convincing win in the consolation semifinals over #3 tournament seed Highland Park Lady Scott’s highlighted their tournament appearance.

Cottone Selected to all tournament team / Timbrook earns tournament  “Most Inspirational Player” award 

Abilene senior Tessa Bender will officially continue her volleyball playing career at the college level as she has signed to play at Pratt Community College in Pratt, Kansas.  

The undefeated, #3 ranked Wamego Lady Red Raiders used a solid second half to pull away from the Abilene Cowgirls for a 42-17 win. Wamego’s hot long distance shooting from three point land ultimately proved the major difference in the game.  Of the Lady Red Raiders 42 game points, they would…

The Abilene Cowboys ended a two game losing skid at home on Tuesday evening by defeating the #7 ranked Wamego Red Raiders 52-43.  

The Abilene Cowboys were handed their first league loss of the season by the visiting Marysville Bulldogs on Friday evening 57-47.

After the holiday break, the Abilene Cowboys returned to basketball action at home on Tuesday evening and lost to the St. Mary’s Academy Crusaders 53-43. St. Mary’s Academy now 5-2 on the season is located in St. Mary’s, Kansas. They are a private Catholic school that is not a member of KSHSAA.

Abilene Cowgirls head coach Shawn Herrman received an early gift from his team entering the holiday break by way of his first coaching victory at AHS. The Cowgirls came from behind in the fourth quarter to win their first game of the season against their NCKL rival, the Chapman Lady Irish 37-34.   

Hot shooting, shut down defense, creating turnovers, transition points, and  multiple scorers are all things that help with winning a basketball game.  The Abilene Cowboys got all of the above in their game on Tuesday evening, enabling them to cruise to a forty point win over the Chapman Iri…

The Abilene Cowboys wrestling team hosted their annual pre holiday break tournament this past weekend and ended up with two individual champions.  

The Abilene Cowboys traveled on the road Tuesday evening to the #1 ranked 3A, South East of Saline Trojans and fell 77-59.  The Trojans who finished 3rd at last years state basketball tournament returned all five starters and a total of eight Seniors to this years squad.  

Members of the Abilene High School wrestling team finished a busy week on the mats by first hosting Beloit in a duel on Thursday evening, then competing in tournaments on Saturday.  Wrestlers we’re split up, and went and competed at two different tournaments over the weekend at both the Doug…

The Abilene Cowgirls went on the road to Augusta last Friday evening and fell to the lady Orioles 38-25.  In a game in which Abilene struggled making baskets, the Augusta girls converted a majority of their points on second chance rebounds and possessions.  Missing game action for Abilene wa…

The Abilene Cowboys went on the road last Friday evening and were dealt their first loss of the season from the Augusta Orioles 65-62.    Abilene led the entire game until a late scoring run of ten straight points by Augusta proved to be too much to overcome at the end. 

Three Abilene basketball coaches will be honored Friday night at the Abilene game at Augusta.  Augusta will be celebrating their 2002 State Championship team that Terry Taylor, Kyle Taylor and Roger Lawrence were a participants. 

The Abilene Cowboys used a high intensity pressure defense to create havoc against the Rock Creek Mustangs to earn a dominating win 60-33.  

The Abilene wrestling team has begun the season with success after dominating their opening season dual and performing well at their first tournament over the weekend. 

The Abilene Cowgirls basketball team opened the season on the road, and fell to the Smoky Valley lady Vikings 73-39.  

The Abilene Cowboys basketball team opened the season with a convincing win over the Smoky Valley Vikings 73-52.

The Abilene Cowgirls basketball team enters a new era of coaching with new head coach Shawn Herrman after the retirement of former coach Mike Liby.