On Friday, KCCS beat Silver Lake 63-53 and Rossville beat Rock Creek 62-55, with scores similar to each other, everyone thought that the Saturday's KSHSAA 3A Championship Game, it was going to be a hard hitting, high scoring game. However, it was not that at all. In fact, this was just the oppoisite --- a low scoring game and one of the worst games the KCCS Panthers have played all year.

In the first period, the score was 3-12 in favor of Rossville, by third period 15-31 with a final score of 32-46. In this game, the whole KCCS Panthers team was off. Yet, the night before the Panthers were playing like a top notch basketball team should play. Yet, in this game, it was totally different. In past games, every KCCS player made hard shots look easy, yet in tonight's game those same players missed several easy shots! The Rossville offense got by the Panthers with ease and made shots other past teams often missed.

When the Panthers applied pressure on defense there were a lot of questionable fouls made against the Panthers which seemed one sided for a championship game and allowed Rossville to get a lot of free throws. In all the Panthers had 23 fouls calls vs. 7 on Rossville. Panthers Matt Steadman, Jordan Mehalic, Kevin McElvain, and Garvin Haughey were all off on shots & kept getting fouled in defense. Both Mehalic and Haughey fouled out then Steadman fouled out for the first time this year in the fourth period. However, Rossville Bulldogs Spensor Askren, Trace McDiffett, Mitch Buhler, Sawyor Askren and Matt Buhler, made some great shots in offense, several free throws, and the whole Rossville defense stopped the Panthers from victory which is something very few teams have done this year. Now, next week, in Hutchinson, KS the KSHSAA 3A Basketball State Championship games will be played & The Rossville Bulldogs will be returning in hopes of capturing the KSHSAA Basketball Championship. Congratulations to all teams going to state!