Iola High’s Mustangs play their season finale Thursday night in LaCygne against Prairie View High’s Bufflaos. These two teams will become league opponents next year.
So Mustangs, it is up to you to start the change. For so long the community around you has fostered that “Iola cannot compete in the SEK” and our athletes, especially the boys, have bought into that.
No more. Buy something else. Iola High’s Mustangs and Fillies of the future believe in yourselves no matter what league your teams play in, no matter what size of school you have to compete against. If you believe and work hard, you will achieve and succeed.
It is up to you to change the culture of “woe is me” in Iola High athletics. Stand up and say “Look out Pioneer League, here we come and we’re not going down without a fight, ever.”
Don’t be the bullies of the league because Iola will be the biggest school in the Pioneer League next year. Play hard, under control and good things happen.
Remember the sayings of “the bigger they are the harder they fall” and “good things come in small packages.” Pioneer League teams are not pushovers — case in point the Class 3A Wellsville won the football league title and is undefeated right now.
The era of the Southeast Kansas League has come to an end for football, volleyball, girls’ tennis and cross country.
ALSO playing final regular season games Thursday are Marmaton Valley High’s Wildcats, Crest High’s Lancers, Southern Coffey County High’s Titans, Yates Center High’s Wildcats and Uniontown High’s Eagles. Humboldt High’s Cubs end their season Friday at home against Jayhawk-Linn High’s Jayhawks.
Marmaton Valley has already clinched a playoff spot in Kansas Eight-Man Division I action. The Wildcats go to Chetopa Thursday and the winner of that game will host a playoff game next Tuesday.
JUST A SHOUT out, gotta love my Kansas State Wildcats. They took care of instate rival Kansas last Saturday. Nice to see order has been restored. Now, they have to face a very angry Oklahoma Sooner team.
