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Scots' Micah Williams scores six goals in 7-2 Highland Park soccer win
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Highland Park sophomore Micah Williams scored six goals in Tuesday's 7-2 Meadowlark Conference home girls soccer win over Kansas City-Washington.
Highland Park sophomore Micah Williams scored six goals in Tuesday's 7-2 girls soccer win over KC-Washington. [File photo/TSN]
Williams, an All-City pick last season as a freshman, now has 13 goals on the season after helping the Scots improve to 2-6-1 on the year.
Williams now has scored 36 goals in her career after scoring 23 goals as a freshman.
The Scots will return to action on Thursday with a Meadowlark Conference contest at KC-Wyandotte.
Junior Blues post runnerup team finish in 10-school Topeka West Invitational tennis
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Washburn Rural tennis got a runnerup doubles finish from juniors Cale Deutscher and Dylan Willingham and a third-place singles finish from junior Keegan Knudtson on the way to finishing second as a team in Tuesday's 10-school Topeka West Invitational at Kossover Tennis Center.
Washburn Rural's Cale Deutscher and Dylan Willingham, talking to Rural coach Michelle Rose, finished second in doubles in Tuesday's Topeka West Invitational. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Deutscher and Willingham rallied from an early deficit to win their semifinal match before dropping an 8-7 (7-3 tiebreaker) to Blue Valley Southwest in the doubles championship match.
Washburn Rural junior Keegan Knudtson finished third in singles in Tuesday's Topeka West Invitational, helping Rural finish third as a team. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
After dropping a semifinal match to singles champion Sanjay Rajkumar of Blue Valley Southwest, Knudtson claimed an 8-3 win over Shawnee Heights' Brock Corley in the third-place match.
Blue Valley Southwest took the team title by a 79-68 margin over Washburn Rural.
Topeka West's Julian Ramcharan and Collin McGee led the Chargers with a sixth-place doubles finish in Tuesday's Topeka West Invitational. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Topeka West got a sixth-place doubles finish from Collin McGee and Julian Ramcharan.
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Heights soccer continues hot streak with 2-1 UKC road win at Seaman
By TODD FERTIG
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After a rough start to the season, the Shawnee Heights girls soccer team is on an upward trajectory with four wins in a row, the latest a 2-1 United Kansas Conference win Tuesday night at Seaman.
Senior Izzy Van Fleet (12) scored the game's first goal in Tuesday's 2-1 Shawnee Heights UKC soccer win at Seaman. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Riding the wave of a three-game win streak, the T-Birds struck early, scoring just 34 seconds into the contest. Senior Izzy Van Fleet received a pass through traffic from sophomore Nina O’Neill-Bolanos in front of the Seaman goal and punched it home before the crowd could settle in.
But the Vikings struck back just as quickly. Junior Savannah Nelson scored off a pass from junior Ava Golightley at the 37:37 mark, wiping out the T-Birds’ early advantage.
Sophomore Nina O'Neill-Bolanos (2) scored the game-winning goal and also had an assist in Tuesday night's 2-1 Shawnee Heights soccer win over Seaman. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
With 3:48 remaining in the first half, O’Neill-Bolanos launched a long strike off a free kick that sailed just over the outstretched arm of the Viking goalkeeper, putting the T-Birds up 2-1.
“We’ve seen that song and dance all season,” Shawnee Heights coach Nic Simons said. “We score early and then give up a couple of goals and start to have that self-doubt. But tonight, we were able to put that out of our heads and we took the lead, and we didn’t look back.”
The score would hold throughout the second half, thanks in large part to the work of goalkeeper Mackenzie Mertel.
“We didn’t get our heads down and we were able to battle against a very good Seaman team with some super dangerous players,” Simons said. “My hat’s off to them. This was just a great soccer match.”
Shawnee Heights celebrates a goal in Tuesday night's 2-1 UKC soccer win over Seaman. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
The win lifted the T-Birds to 4-3-1 after an 0-3-1 start to the season.
“It feels amazing. I’m very proud of our team,” said Van Fleet. “We’ve worked really hard to be where we are right now in the middle of the season. We might have had a rocky start, but we did come back. And I think we’re going to do some amazing things for the rest of the season and postseason.”
