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Created: 23 May 2025

By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news

Washburn Rural juniors Audrey Appuhn and Rhiannon Good and Seaman senior Joslynn Grace will all take lofty top-four qualifying marks into Saturday's final day of the Class 6A and 5A swimming and diving championships at the Capitol Federal Natatorium.

The 6A finals will get under way at 9 a.m., followed by the 5A-1A finals at 4 p.m.

Washburn Rural junior Audrey Appuhn has been a multi-event Class 6A state medalist the past two seasons and posted two top-four qualifying performances for Saturday's state finals. [File photo/TSN] 

Appuhn, a multi-event state medalist the past two seasons, qualifed third for the finals in the 200-yard freestyle in a preliminary time of 1 minute, 56.79 seconds and came back later to earn the No. 4 qualifying spot in the 100 breaststroke in 1:07.99.

Good is sitting in the third spot in the one-meter diving standings after the preliminary and semifinal rounds, posting a score of 277.45. The diving finals will kick off the 6A championship finals at 9 o'clock.

Washburn Rural senior Genevieve Miranda garnered the eighth and final spot in the championship finals for the 100 butterfly in 1:02.03 and will be the top seed for the 'B' finals in the 100 backstroke after a preliminary time of 1:03.76.

Seaman senior Joslynn Grace qualified in the top four Friday for a pair of Class 5A-1A state swimming finals. [File photo/TSN]

Seaman's Grace, a returning multi-event state medalist, qualified No. 3 in the 5A 200 individual medley in 2:10.17 and No. 4 in the 100 breaststroke in 1:08.56.

Hayden senior Kaylee Gregg and sophomore Maddie Gregg qualified sixth and ninth for the 5A-1A one-meter diving finals, which will begin at 4 p.m.

Kaylee Gregg has a score of 267.25 after the semifinals while Maddie Gregg has a score of 209.40.

By RICK PETERSON

TopSports.news

After a 5-10-1 regular season, Topeka High girls soccer has come to life in postseason, posting a pair of road upsets to advance to Monday's Class 6A quarterfinals.

Topeka High girls soccer is headed to the Class 6A state quarterfinals after Thursday's 3-1 win at Wichita Northwest. [Submitted photo]

Topeka High, the No. 14 West regional seed, opened regional competition with a 2-1 win in penalty kicks (5-3) at No. 3 Garden City on Tuesday and followed that up with a 3-1 win at No. 11 Wichita Northwest Thursday to claim a regional championship.

Natalie Barnes scored her first of two goals on the night off a Cierra Belaire assist 5:52 into the opening half to put the Trojans in front 1-0.

Wichita Northwest (7-10-1) tied the game at 1-1 with 7:06 left in the half on a penalty kick, but Topeka High answered with a Raelee Shipley goal with 5:55 remaining to give the Trojans a 2-1 halftime advantage.

Barnes scored her second goal with 11:52 remaining in the match to give High its final margin.

Next up for the 7-10-1 Trojans is No. 1 West seed Washburn Rural (16-2-0), which will host Topeka High in Monday's 6 p.m. state quarterfinal.

The Junior Blues advanced with a 4-1 win over Manhattan Thursday night.

Rural defeated Topeka High 3-1 in a Centennial League game on April 16. 

Vikes roll to 5A quarterfinals

Seaman rolled to an 8-0 win over United Kansas Conference rival Basehor-Linwood in Thursday's Class 5A regional final at Seaman.

The Vikings, now 13-5-0, outscored its two regional opponents by an 19-0 margin en route to earning a second straight trip to the quarterfinals.

Seaman will go on the road Monday to face UKC rival De Soto (16-2-0) in a 6 p.m. contest.

The Vikings dropped a 4-3 conference game to the Wildcats on April 17.

Hayden knocks off Bullpups, 2-1

Hayden soccer moved onto the Class 4A-1A state quarterfinals with a 2-1 Thursday road win at McPherson.

Now 11-7-0 on the season, the Wildcats are the No. 4 seed for the 4A-1A quarterfinals and will travel to top seed Wichita Trinity (14-1-2) for a 6:30 p.m. Monday contest. 

T-Birds' season ends at St. James

Shawnee Heights' 2025 soccer season ended in a 5-0 loss at St. James Academy in a Class 5A regional final.

The T-Birds finished with an 11-6-1 record on the season while St. James Academy improved to 17-1-0.

The Thunder's lone loss was a 3-1 regular-season loss at 6A power Washburn Rural.

St. James will host St. Thomas Aquinas at 6 p.m. Monday in a state quarterfinal.

By CHARLES SPURLOCK

Special to TopSports.news

ANDOVER -- On a sunny May afternoon, nine Class 5A schools (Andover, Andover Central, Arkansas City, Emporia, Kapaun Mt. Carmel, Newton, Seaman, Topeka West and Valley Center) competed at Andover Central in one of four regional track meets across the state on Thursday and Friday.

The top three finishers in each event qualified for the state meet next weekend in Wichita. The next four best finishers across all four regional meets will also qualify for the state meet. Those results will not be known until the regional meets at Blue Valley Northwest and Mill Valley on Friday evening.

Seaman junior Ryin Miller qualified for next week's Class 5A state track meet in Wichita in four events in Thursday's regional meet in Andover. [File photo/TSN]

Seaman junior Ryin Miller qualified in four events on Thursday.

She won the 800 meters with a time of 2 minutes, 13.98 seconds, the 1,600 meters in 5:01.64 and the 3,200 meters in 11:23.87. She was also the anchor leg of the Vikings' 4x400-meter relay team that finished third in a time of 4:06.58.

Competing in four events on the day played a role in Miller’s strategy during the meet.

“Definitely regionals are survive and advance,'' Miller said. "I wasn’t trying to run a personal best today. The goal in the mile was to do enough to move on and I did that. Also doing four events in one day is pretty rough. I’m excited for next week.”

The Seaman boys were the regional runnerup to Kapaun Mt. Carmel, amassing 80.5 points during the meet.

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