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Kansas defensive end and former Center Grove player Austin Booker led the team in tackles with seven — including 2.5 for loss — as the Jayhawks football team improved to 4-0 with a 38-27 win over visiting BYU.

Attending a Center Grove-Franklin volleyball match usually requires a significant time commitment. No matter the result, getting to it can take a while.

Jack Dybwad has played seven varsity matches in his high school tennis career, the last two being the most significant.

Each of the state’s 37 high school football leagues offers up snippets of randomness — but four games in, the Mid-State Conference weighs heaviest on the scale of uncertainty.

SCOUTING TONIGHT’S MATCHUPS

Boys tennis

One way or another, Center Grove’s quest for a 36th sectional championship was almost certainly going to involve getting past 20th-ranked Whiteland.

Tonight, Center Grove will try to put the finishing touches on a 10th consecutive Johnson County tournament championship.

While Johnson County’s sporting history doesn’t cover the entire 200 years of its existence, we do have well over a century of legendary moments to brag about. From 1912, when Franklin played in the second boys basketball state championship game, through the magical run of the Wonder Five in the 1920s at Franklin High and Franklin College, leading up to the current dominance of Center Grove football, the county has been making waves both on a state level and nationally.

Boys tennis