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Stafford High School boys embrace effort and accountability on their basketball team

STAFFORD - Practices, like the games the first half of the season, have been inconsistent lately for the Stafford boys basketball team.In the Trojans’ last six games before the break, they were 4-2 with two straight wins followed by a pair of losses then two more wins.“Practice over the break has been up and down, but we’ve added some things offensively so that contributed to a lot of the ugliness at first,” fourth-year coach Cole Smith said.

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Skyline athlete credits God for his skills and talents

He stands 5-foot-11 and weighs 180 pounds, but Skyline High School senior Brayden Berens stands out bigger than Goliath when it comes to his faith.“My love for God has been something that has been very important in my life,” Berens said.The stockily built Berens from Pratt County will take his powerful love for His Man Above next year to Hillsboro where his second love of baseball will be showcased at Tabor College.“He works hard and stays set on goals better than anyone I know,” Thunderbird teammate Graysen Hoener said.“Brayden is so effective on the mound because of his above average velocity paired with a great secondary pitch,” Kiowa County High grad, longtime friend and current Barton Cougar pitcher Brady Deterding said.

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