6 Garden City-area Seniors in the Spotlight

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Looking way out west, there are some good ballers all up and down the border. Particularly in the Garden City area, there is a nice crop of seniors to watch.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Here are six Garden City-area seniors who will be in the spotlight this season (in alphabetical order):</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_player":["1378394"],"_player_evaluations_0_player":"field_62ab9d62ecf2c","player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":["override_image"],"_player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"override-player-profile-image","player_evaluations_0_player_featured_image":1186908,"_player_evaluations_0_player_featured_image":"field_62f141137ead9","player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"","_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"This guy really shows how good he is when the Western Kansas Elite club team travels the country in the summer time. 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