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Sports briefs
GOLF Dodge City Invitational Thursday Mariah Hill GC Par 71, 6,511 yards Team scores — Goddard Eisenhower 290, Bishop Carroll 300, Salina Sacred Heart 302, Maize South 303, Derby 312-82, Hesston 312-90, Dodge City 317, Hutchinson 333, Garden City 343, Scott Community 350-91, Maize 350-98, Hays 351, Thomas More Prep-Marian 357, Great Bend 389, Liberal 401, Wichita North 402. Ellinwood no team score.
Thresher golfers ninth at KCAC
GARDEN CITY — The Bethel College men’s golf team ended the season with a ninth-place finish at the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Championships Monday through Wednesday at the Buffalo Dunes Golf Course in Garden City. Friends won the team title with a four-round team score of 1,131, earning a berth to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics National Championships May 16 to 19 at the Las Sendas Golf Club in Mesa, Ariz.
MONDAY BEST BETS
Movie: The Color Purple TCM 7 p.m. Based on the novel of the same name by Alice Walker, the film tells the life story of Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), a Black Southern woman who is fighting to find herself after surviving decades of abuse from her father and the man she was forced to marry.
Wind Ensemble concert to feature a ‘folk song’ flavor
The Bethel College Wind Ensemble under the direction of Joel Boettger kicks off the first of several concerts closing out the 2022-23 school year. The ensemble will perform at 7 p.m.
Plains Folk: A stone in my shoe
On a pleasant morning in early June 1913, the: editor of the Hoisington Dispatch was taking his morning constitutional, walking around town with his eyes and ears open for stories. And one walked right up to him.
SATURDAY BEST BETS
Chasing the Rains BBC 7 p.m. In the premiere episode of this new nature documentary series, follow a mother elephant as she reroutes her herd after a local river dries up, a cheetah who must help her cubs evade a crafty pack of hyenas and a wild dog caring for her new litter.
TUESDAY BEST BETS
Night Court KSNW 7 p.m. Neil’s (Kapil Talwalkar) crush on Abby (Melissa Rauch) is making things uncomfortable for everyone, but Abby sees a way out when she meets an unrequited love from his past who just happens to be newly available (guest star Melissa Villasenor).
SUNDAY BEST BETS
NASCAR Cup Series GEICO 500 KSAS 2 p.m. Broadcasting live from the high banks of the Talladega Superspeedway in Alabama, the NASCAR Cup Series is coming in hot with the GEICO 500.
Kansas governor announces new state park, other laws on insurance, fishing permits and donations
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly signed into law a bill establishing Lehigh Portland Trails as a state park, adding the Allen County nature area to the list of 27 other state parks.