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No. 1-ranked Ichabods roll to 107-74 win over Jets, improve to 18-0
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
No. 1-ranked Washburn University men's basketball wrapped up a four-game road trip with a dominating wire-to-wire 107–74 MIAA victory over Newman on Saturday in Wichita.
Washburn junior Jack Bachelor scored 23 points in Saturday's 107-74 MIAA road win at Newman. [File photo/TSN]
The Ichabods, who improved to 18-0 and 8-0 in the MIAA, set the tone immediately Saturday, jumping out to an 11-2 lead with junior Jack Bachelor scoring seven points in the early going and pacing the Ichabods in the 33-point win.
Offensively, Washburn shot 58.9 percent from the field (43 of 73) while hitting 50 percent of its shots from 3-point range (12 of 24) and knocking down 75 percent of its free throw attempts (9 of 12).
The Ichabods also dominated the paint with 58 points, added 19 fast-break points and 19 second-chance points.
Bachelor scored a game-high 23 points on 9 of 12 shooting, including a 5 of 7 performance from beyond the 3-point arc.
The former Washburn Rural star, who added four assists and three steals, connected on his first five 3-pointers in the game.
Sophomore Marcus Glock followed with a Washburn career-high 21 points, scoring 16 in the opening half, hitting four 3-pointers and going a perfect 3 for 3 at the line.
Sophomore Tyson Ruud slams home a dunk in Washburn's 107-74 MIAA win at Newman on Saturday. [File photo/TSN]
Making his first start as an Ichabod, sophomore Tyson Ruud scored a career-high 17 points with eight rebounds and junior Jeremiah Jones chipped in 15 points on 7 of 9 shooting.
Freshman Amalachi Wilkins provided a spark off the bench with 11 points and five rebounds. Sophomore Dillon Claussen scored seven points and had a career-high seven assists, while adding four rebounds, two steals and two blocks.
Newman shot 47.5 percent overall and 40.9 percent from three while turning the ball over 19 times, leading to 29 Ichabod points.
Washburn also won the battle on the glass, outrebounding the Jets (5-12, 1-7) by a 36-24 margin.
Washburn returns to Lee Arena on Wednesday for a 7:30 p.m. MIAA tilt with Northwest Missouri.
Kingcannon's 35 points power Hi Park to 80-43 Meadowlark win over Hawks
By JUSTIN BURKHARDT
TopSports.news
Highland Park boys basketball hosted Kansas City-Harmon in a Meadowlark Conference matchup Friday on Winter Royalty night, with the Scots snapping a three-game losing streak with an 80-43 rout over the Hawks.
Highland Park junior JoJo Kingcannon scored a career-high 35 points in Friday's 80-43 Meadowlark Conference win over KC-Harmon. [File photo/TSN]
The Scots would get off to a hot start, with junior JoJo Kingcannon going on a 9-0 run to start the game and scoring 12 of the team’s first 15 point’s in the contest.
The Scots would start the game with a 20-0 run before Harmon would find the basket with a free throw to make it 20-1.
Highland Park would end the first quarter with a 23-8 lead.
“JoJo's been scoring very well for us,'' Highland Park coach Nate Wallace said. "He's close to around 20 a game, if not a little more at this point. I never worry about JoJo. JoJo's locked in, JoJo's bought in, JoJo's a leader. He's a captain and when he brings that type of energy to the game, it makes it easier for the other guys.”
“(I'm) just feeling my shot, being confident in myself,'' Kingcannon said. "Sometimes I get down on myself, but I just know I can't do it as a leader of this team. So it's just the confidence part. I've just got to keep myself motivated and once I'm motivated, I just know that would get the team motivated.”
Harmon would start the second quarter with a 3-pointer before the Scots would go on a 12-2 run to go up 35-12.
The Scots would go into halftime up 44-24, with Kingcannon having 25 points on 10-11 shooting from the field at halftime and finishing with a career-high 35 points.
The second half would be much like the first as the Scots would out-score the Hawks 28-10 in the third, forcing a running clock in the fourth quarter.
“This win was good because we did take a bad loss to Shawnee Heights (Thursday), but just to get another win and going into next week with more confidence with each other (is big). And we're just going to keep it moving.” Kingcannon said.
Lady Vikes drop second straight UKC tilt, falling 52-46 to Leavenworth
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Seaman girls basketball put together a strong comeback Friday night after falling behind by 11 points in the first half.
But for the second straight game, it wasn't enough, with the Vikings dropping their second United Kansas Conference decision in three days, a 52-46 home loss to Leavenworth.
Seaman senior Maddie Gragg (32) scored 16 points in Friday's 52-46 UKC loss to Leavenworth. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Seaman, which lost 52-38 to De Soto on Wednesday at home, spotted the Pioneers a 27-16 halftime advantage before rallying to get as close as two points with 1:07 remaining, but the Pioneers outscored the Vikings 5-1 down the stretch to hold on for the win.
The Vikings, now 6-4 overall and 6-3 in the UKC, have dropped back-to-back games for the first time since the 2020-2021 season.
"We came out flat and all three games this week we've come out flat,'' said Seaman coach Matt Tinsley, whose Vikings opened the week with a 49-26 conference road win at Topeka West on Tuesday. "You can't dig yourself a hole and then that's just too much energy to come back.
"They'd get a rebound that we have a chance to get and they'd hit a 3 or we'd have a turnover in a critical moment. We're still learning that every possession is so important, especially in a tight game like that. We had no energy in the first half at all. We showed what we can do in the second half, but unfortunately the game is two halves.''
Senior Maddie Gragg led the Vikings with 16 points, 11 in the second half, while junior Cara Beaton added 14 points, including a pair of 3-pointers.
