Oiler defense crushes St. Mary’s Colgan

By MIKE COURSON
For the I-R

The old adage that defense wins championships was alive and well on Championship Saturday across Kansas. In four of the eight state championship games, scores took a major dip as defenses prevailed. Nowhere was the principle more apparent than in Manhattan’s Bramlage Coliseum, where the Central Plains boys held St. Mary’s Colgan to nearly half its season average en route to a 47-34 win and a Class 2A championship.

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