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Silver Lake No. 1 in KVA Class 3A state volleyball rankings for fifth straight week
By RICK PETERSON
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Four Shawnee County schools continue to earn Top 10 spots in the Kansas Volleyball Association's state rankings released Wednesday, led by Class 3A Silver Lake, which is ranked No. 1 for the fifth straight week.
Silver Lake remains top-ranked in Class 3A, improving to 32-1 on the season. [File photo/TSN]
Coming off the championship in its home tournament last Saturday and a pair of wins on Tuesday, Silver Lake is now 32-1 on the season. The Eagles' lone loss came against 5A Shawnee Heights.
Hayden (19-7) is ranked No. 3 in 4A while Washburn Rural is No. 6 in 6A and 16-4 after winning the Centennial League tournament and going 7-0 last week.
Rossville (19-10) is ranked sixth in 2A.
Kansas Volleyball Association State Rankings
Silver Lake maintains top spot in KVA Class 3A state volleyball rankings
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Four Shawnee County schools continue to earn Top 10 spots in the Kansas Volleyball Association's state rankings released Wednesday, led by Class 3A Silver Lake, which is ranked No. 1 for the sixth straight week.
Silver Lake volleyball is ranked No. 1 in the KVA Class 3A state rankings for the sixth straight week. [File photo/TSN]
Silver Lake is now 34-1 on the season. The Eagles' lone loss came against 5A Shawnee Heights.
Hayden (23-7) is ranked No. 3 in 4A while Washburn Rural (21-4) is No. 6 in 6A and Rossville (23-13) is ranked seventh in 2A.
Kansas Volleyball Association State Rankings
Rural soccer blanks Bishop Carroll 2-0 to improve to 9-1-1
By TODD FERTIG
TopSports.news
The Washburn Rural soccer team has spent most of the last month taking on all comers, inviting challenges wherever it can find them. The Junior Blues defeated Bishop Carroll 2-0 at McElroy Field Tuesday to improve to 9-1-1 before a couple of weeks facing more traditional rivals.
The Junior Blues got goals from Dylan Willingham and Everett Un in the first half, then locked up the opponents for the rest of the night.
Washburn Rural senior Dylan Willingham (19) scored the game's first goal in Tuesday's 2-0 win over Bishop Carroll. [Photo by Doug Walker/Special to TSN]
Sophomore Everett Un scored a goal in Washburn Rural's 2-0 win over Bishop Carroll Tuesday night. [Photo by Doug Walker/Special to TSN]
The victory over Bishop Carroll followed up a win last week against Kapaun Mt. Carmel. Those victories came on the heels of three grueling battles against some top competition at a tournament in Iowa.
“It’s been a tough road the last week and a half,” Junior Blues coach Brian Hensyel said. “We’ve played five games in 12 days, our three games in Iowa and then Kapaun and Carroll are always tough. They’re really well-coached teams, some of the better teams in the Wichita area every year. We knew we were going to have to just play good sound defense, take our chances when we could. To win four and tie one, we’re pretty excited about how we’ve done.”
Junior Brodye Kocher-Munoz had a pair of assists and also had a stint as goalkeeper in Washburn Rural's 2-0 win over Bishop Carroll Tuesday night. [Photo by Doug Walker/Special to TSN]
Recording an assist on both Washburn Rural goals Tuesday was forward Brodye Kocher-Munoz. The junior then provided another assist, this time to starting goalkeeper Miles Cook. Kocher-Munoz switched jerseys, donned the gloves, and defended the Junior Blues’ net for the final several minutes of the game, helping to preserve the shutout.
“I just gotta step up for the guys in any way they need,” Kocher-Munoz said. “It’s not all about scoring. Sometimes you’ve got to give the ball up and give your teammates a shot and celebrate with the team.”
Kocher-Munoz admitted moving to goalkeeper was not in his original plan against the Golden Eagles.
“In practice, sometimes I’ll step in there just for jokes, but I didn’t think I’d be in there tonight,” he said. “Sometimes you just gotta step up for the team.”
