Fans of the Arkansas City High School football team have hung with the Bulldogs through the good times and the bad. Those fans had much to cheer for Friday on Homecoming night.
The Bulldogs scored on several big plays in the first half, then used a tenacious second-half defense to hold off Goddard for a 27-21 victory in an AV-CTL D-II thriller at Bulldog Stadium.
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