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By RICK PETERSON                                                                                                              DK_Digital_Ad_400_x_200_2.jpg

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Shawnee Heights senior girls wrestler Maranda Bell and Seaman senior boys bowler Jack Easum have been named the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency Athletes of the Week for last week.

Bell was crowned the Class 6A-5A state champion in the 191-pound division while Easum was a Class 5A-1A individual regional champion while leading the Vikings to a regional team title.

Here’s a brief look at the accomplishments of Bell and Easum last week:

MarandaBelljubeShawnee Heights senior 191-pounder Maranda Bell won the Class 6A-5A state wrestling championship last Thursday in Wichita. [Submitted]

MARANDA BELL, Shawnee Heights

A senior 191-pound star girls wrestler, Bell won a Class 6A-5A state championship last Thursday at Park City's Hartman Arena, becoming Shawnee Heights' first official girls state champ and first girls wrestler to reach 100 wins in her career.

Bell, who was 27-1 on the season, won all four of her state matches by pin, in 13 seconds, 3:01, 56 seconds and 1:03 in the championship match over Derby sophomore Meya Howell.

Bell led Heights to a fifth-place team finish, with the T-Birds the highest-finishing 5A school.

 JackEasumnewSeaman senior bowler Jack Easum won a Class 5A-1A individual regional title last week in Emporia, leading the Vikings to the team championship. [File photo/TSN] 

JACK EASUM, Seaman

Easum, a senior, won the boys individual championship in last Tuesday's Class 5A-1A bowling regional at Emporia's Flint Hills Lanes, winning by 30 pins with a three-game series of 747.

Easum put together games of 235, 279 and 233, leading the Vikings to the regional team championship by a 3,610-3,554 margin over De Soto.

Easum will bowl in the 5A-1A state tournament on Friday at Northrock Lanes in Wichita after finishing 21st individually and helping the Vikings finish third as a team last season.

 

 

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