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Hayden soccer advances to Class 4A-1A semifinal with 2-0 win over Trinity
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Hayden girls soccer posted a 2-0 road win at Wichita Trinity Monday night, advancing to the Class 4A-1A state semifinals.
Now 12-7-0 on the season, Hayden will play a 6 p.m. semifinal at Louisburg Wednesday.
Hayden junior Reese Huscher scored the Wildcats' first goal in Monday's 2-0 Class 4A quarterfinal win at Wichita Trinity. [File photo/TSN]
Junior Reese Huscher scored the only goal Hayden would need with 10:13 remaining in the opening half, giving the Wildcats a 1-0 halftime lead.
Hayden junior Grace Funk scored the Wildcats' second goal in Monday's 2-0 Class 4A-1A quarterfinal win at Wichita Trinity. [File photo/TSN]
Junior Grace Funk added Hayden's second goal six minutes into the second half and the Wildcats blanked Trinity (14-2-2) the rest of the way.
Louisburg (16-3-0) advanced to the semifinals with a 2-0 quarterfinal win over Eudora Monday night.
Seaman drops 1-0 heartbreaker
Seaman's soccer season came to an end in a Class 5A quarterfinal Monday night, with the Vikings dropping a 1-0 decision to United Kansas Conference rival De Soto on the Wildcats' home field.
Monday's loss was the Vikings' second one-goal loss to the Wildcats' this season, with De Soto taking a 4-3 decision over Seaman in the regular season.
Seaman ended its season 13-6-0 while De Soto improved to 17-2-0.
De Soto will play a 5 p.m. semifinal at Bishop Carroll (19-0-0) on Wednesday.
Ichabods' national championship bid comes up short in 4-2 loss to No. 1 Valdosta State
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. -- Three separate rain or lightning delays and nearly six hours after the match began No. 9-ranked Washburn University's men's tennis season came to an end with a 4-2 national championship loss to No. 1 Valdosta State on Saturday evening.
Washburn University men's tennis finished as the NCAA Division II national runnerup Saturday, falling 4-2 to No. 1 Valdosta State. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
The Ichabods ended their historic season with a 23-4 record.
The top-seeded Blazers (26-0) jumped ahead in doubles play at No. 3, defeating Pavlos Parson and Moritz Pieper 6-2 to take the advantage.
Playing on the top court Matthew Earle and Tim Hammes fought in a top-five battle with No. 5 Takeshi Taco and Saveam Van Wijk. After the dual was tied 4-4 the final two games went to Valdosta State to take the doubles point.
Tommy Cecchetti and Vasek Schneider led 5-4 on court two for Washburn over No. 8 Edgar Destouet and Arthur Bord and were leading 30-15 in the game when the point was decided.
In singles play the first court featured a top-five battle between No. 4 Hammes and No. 2 Takeshi Taco. Hammes fell in the first set 6-1 before bouncing back to reverse the score in the second and force a third set.
In the third he fell behind early and was unable to make up the ground, losing 6-1. Finishing just behind him was Zino Nahirniah on court five, who put the Ichabods on the board with a pair of 6-3 victories.
Court two also had a meeting of top-10 opponents with No. 8 Schneider taking on No. 3 Boruch Skierkier. Schneider fell behind 4-0 early in the first set but was able to battle back, winning six straight games for a 6-4 win.
The second set went back-and-forth with ties at 2-2, 3-3- and 4-4 before Schneider claimed two straight games to win 6-4 and tie the match at two.
Parson dropped a first set at No. 3, 6-2. In the second set he bounced back with an early lead to win 6-3 and force a third set.
In the third No. 20 Destouet went in front 4-1 over Parson before winning 6-2.
Playing at No. 6, Earle built an early lead and was able to work a 6-4 victory in his first set of play. In the second set the score went in the other direction 6-3.
Earle fell behind early in the third set, and trailed 5-2 when the final delay of the match for lightning was called, lasting over two hours. After play resumed the final game went to Valdosta State as they clinched the set 6-2 and the match, 4-2.
After falling in his first set at No. 4, 6-4, Cecchetti battled back for a 6-3 win in the second set and was tied 1-1 in the third when the point and match were decided.
Third-place 6A finishers Appuhn and Good, 5A-1A double medalist Grace pace city contingent
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By RICK PETERSON
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Saturday was a painful, but very rewarding day for Washburn Rural junior diver Rhiannon Good.
Despite fighting through a knee injury, which required her to compete with a brace on her right knee, Good posted a career-best third-place finish in Saturday's Class 6A one-meter diving event, her second straight state medal.
Washburn Rural junior Rhiannon Good fought through a knee injury to finish third in Class 6A in one-meter diving Saturday at the Capitol Federal Natatorium. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
After missing a chunk of the regular season with her injury, Good bounced back late in the season before suffering another setback between qualifying third in Thursday's semifinals and Saturday's championship finals.
"I hyper-extended it and strained some muscles during cheer and it put me out for like half the season and I just started coming back to compete for city and league and state,'' Good said. "I had qualified early in the season for state so I didn't have to worry about that, but city and league were rough because I was still getting over the injury.
"It had been fine and then I re-injured it on Thursday at cheer tryouts after state (prelims and semis) so it's pretty injured right now, but I was just like, 'I have three dives, I just have to do it.' ''
Washburn Rural junior diver Rhiannon Good won her second straight Class 6A medal Saturday at the Capitol Federal Natatorium. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Good was able to hold on for her third-place finish with a score of 378.75 while Olathe East sophomore Irene Getya dominated the event at 519.20 and Olathe North junior Avery Metcalf finished second at 388.20, less than 10 points in front of Good.
"(The knee) wasn't great, but I just told myself that I just needed to push through these last three dives and then I have all the offseason to rest but these three dives, I needed them to be good to maintain my spot in third,'' Good said. "So I just pushed through. I was like, 'It's going to hurt, I know it's going to hurt, but it will just be fine and it will be worth it in the end.' And it was.''
Good's top-three showing came after she had finished seventh at state as a sophomore.
"After state last year I told myself that this year I just wanted to make top five and that's something I did do, but top-three's better than top five, so I'm excited,'' Good said. "It was a rough season, so I'm just happy I was able to compete here.''
Washburn Rural junior Audrey Appuhn reacts after a third-place finish in the 100-yard breaststroke in Saturday's Class 6A state meet. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Washburn Rural junior star Audrey Appuhn added two more individual medals to her growing career medal haul and has now been a multi-event state medalist the past three seasons.
Appuhn posted a sixth-place finish in the 200-yard freestyle in a time of 1 minute, 57.55 seconds and came back later in the day to finish third in the 100 breaststroke in 1:06.80, posting an improvement by more than a second after qualifying fourth.
Appuhn's sixth-place showing in the 200 free came after she qualifed third, but she said she was still pleased with that performance.
"I was happy with it, I thought it was a good race,'' she said. "I think it's OK to not go a best time every time you race. I'm glad that I got to hit right around what I've been hitting this season, so it's a win in my book.''
And Appuhn's confidence showed through in the 100 breast.
"That time in that breaststroke felt amazing,'' said Appuhn, who earned second-team All-State honors. "I didn't start racing the 100 breaststroke until this year and then just learning how to use the tempo and seeing everything that I want finally all put together it felt amazing.''
Washburn Rural senior Genevieve Miranda earned a Class 6A state medal with an eighth-place finish in the 100-yard butterfly Saturday. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Washburn Rural senior Genevieve Miranda finished eighth in the 100 butterfly in 1:01.53 and won the 'B' final in the 100 backstroke in 1:03.17.
