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The 2025 All-City girls bowling team: From left -- Kenzie Lawson, Washburn Rural; Megan Glinka, Washburn Rural; Addison Van Metre, Shawnee Heights; Paige Snyder, Seaman; Claire LaDuke, Seaman, and Leah Crawford, Seaman. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
By RICK PETERSON
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The future appears bright for city girls high school bowling, with the 2025 girls All-City first team comprised of six underclassmen, including a freshman and three sophomores.
The All-City team, selected by city coaches, includes first-team sophomore repeaters Paige Snyder of Seaman and Megan Glinka of Washburn Rural along with Seaman junior Claire LaDuke and Washburn Rural junior Kenzie Lawson, Shawnee Heights sophomore Addison Van Metre and Seaman freshman Leah Craword.
LaDuke, Lawson and Van Metre all earned individual medals during the 2025 state meet.
Lawson and Glinka helped Washburn Rural finish third as a team in the Class 6A state tournament while LaDuke, Crawford and Snyder helped Seaman post a third-place finish in 5A.
All-City capsules:
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The 2025 All-City boys bowling team: From left -- Logan Glinka, Washburn Rural; Tyler Faurot, Washburn Rural; Kelton Meier, Hayden; Alex Prescott, Seaman; Henry Schattilly, Shawnee Heights, and Trey Donath, Shawnee Heights. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
By RICK PETERSON
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Class 4A-1A state team champion Kelton Meier of Hayden and first-team repeat picks Logan Glinka of Washburn Rural, Alex Prescott of Seaman and Trey Donath of Shawnee Heights headline the 2025 All-City boys bowling team, selected by city coaches.
Meier, a sophomore, helped Hayden win its first-ever state bowling championship by a 95-pin margin while Glinka, a senior four-time All-City pick, and sophomore Donath are both former state team champs and Prescott, a senior, is a two-time United Kansas Conference individual champion.
Rounding out the All-City first team are Washburn Rural senior Trey Faurot, a Class 6A state medalist and former 6A state team champ, and Shawnee Heights junior Henry Schattilly, a former 5A state team champ who moved up from the second team.
All-City capsules:
TREY DONATH, Shawnee Heights -- A sophomore first-team All-City repeat pick, Donath helped Shawnee Heights win its first-ever boys Class 5A team bowling championship in 2024 and helped the T-Birds return to state this past season. Donath rolled a 614 series at state to finish 28th as Heights finished fifth as a team. Donath shot a 542 series in regional competition as Heights advanced to state with a third-place team finish. Donath shot a 603 series in the city tournament as Shawnee Heights finished second as a team.
TYLER FAUROT, Washburn Rural -- Faurot, a senior, finished his high school career with a 689 series to post a sixth-place individual finish as Washburn Rural finished fifth as a team. Faurot shot a 617 series in Class 6A regional competition to finish 13th as the Junior Blues won the team title by 123 pins. Faurot finished ninth in the Centennial League tournament with a 584 series as the Junior Blues finished third as a team. Faurot shot a 662 series in the city tournament to finish second individually as Rural won the city team championship. Faurot was a member of Rural's 6A state title team in 2023.
LOGAN GLINKA, Washburn Rural -- A senior four-time All-City selection, Glinka capped his high school career with an eighth-place individual finish with a 679 three-game series as Washburn Rural finished fifth as a team. Glinka shot a 650 series in Class 6A regional competition to finish seventh individually as the Junior Blues won the team title by 123 pins. Glinka finished 10th in the Centennial League tournament with a 579 series as the Junior Blues finished third as a team. Glinka posted a 734 three-game series to win the individual championship in the city tournament as Washburn Rural won the team title. Glinka helped lead the Junior Blues to the 6A team championship in 2023.
KELTON MEIER, Hayden -- Meier, a sophomore, helped Hayden capture its first-ever state bowling championship, rolling a 604 three-game series to finish 21st as the Wildcats won the title by 95 pins. Meier shot a 633 series in 4A-1A regional competition to finish sixth as Hayden won the regional title by 213 pins. Meier captured the Centennial League individual title with a 675 series as the Wildcats finished second as a team. Meier finished ninth in the city meet with a 632 series.
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By RICK PETERSON
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Washburn University men's basketball moved into the NCAA national semifinals with a 90-78 win over Lenoir-Rhyne Tuesday night in Evansville, Ind., sending the Ichabods to the final four of the national tournament.
Washburn celebrates Tuesday's 90-78 national quarterfinal win over Lenoir-Rhyne. [Photo courtesy of Jeff Jacobsen/Action Images Photography, Inc.]
Now 30-3, the Ichabods advanced to an 8:30 p.m. semifinal on Thursday night against No. 1-ranked Nova Southeastern.
The Ichabods led from start to finish on Tuesday thanks to a hot start coming out of the gate in both halves, but WU had to fight through several Lenoir-Rhyne rallies to get the win.
"Every team here has a great team and no team here is going to quit and we saw that,'' Ichabod senior Jacob Hanna told KTPK Radio after the game. "We'd go up and they'd take it back down but I think we did a good job of continuing to fight.''
WU pulled in front of the Bears 13-4 after sophomore Brayden Shorter scored nine points in the early going.
Washburn pushed its lead to 13 after a traditional 3-point play from Hanna put the Ichabods up 27-14 with 11:48 remaining in the first half, but the Bears (29-6) chipped away, trimming their deficit to five less than 60 seconds later before a pair of Hanna free throws, a 3-pointer from Shorter and a Hanna bucket in the paint pushed the margin back to 10.
The WU lead stayed in double digits until the Bears used a 9-0 run to pull within three again at 40-37.
Back-to-back layups from freshman Dillon Claussen and senior Michael Keegan stretched the Washburn lead back to seven but LRU hit three free throws with 37 seconds left before sophomore Jack Bachelor's jumper sent the Ichabods to the locker room with a 46-40 lead.
In the second half the Ichabods went up by 20 with 14:42 to play and by as many as 21 before the Bears came back again.
"I think at the start of the second half we did a good job of coming out with a lot of fire, a lot of energy,'' Hanna said. "I think where it really started was in the locker room. I think coach challenged us and we responded to the challenge.''
The Bears eventually cut the lead to seven, but two jumpers in a row from Claussen put the margin at 11 and the Bears got no closer than nine the rest of the way.
"We did a really good job of finishing,'' WU coach Brett Ballard told KTPK Radio. "I thought the beginning of the halves was big. We started off the game on a great run and then the first five or six minutes of the second half were really good basketball.''
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By Todd Fertig
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The Topeka High girls soccer team relied upon a mix of returners and new contributors to open the season with a 5-0 win over Topeka West at Hummer Sports Park Tuesday.
Topeka High freshman Emma Schell (left) celebrates an early goal with teammate Paty Acosta-Salas in the Trojans' 5-0 win over Topeka West. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Freshman Emma Schell scored right out of the gate in her debut with the Trojans, punching a breakaway past the Charger goalkeeper at 38:43 of the first half. She scored again off a rebound just seven minutes later.
Topeka High junior Dana Chavarria Delacruz (22) celebrates a first-half goal in the Trojans' 5-0 win over Topeka West. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
The Trojans got a goal from Dana Chavarria Delacruz later in the period to go to the intermission leading 3-0.
“We graduated a lot of players from last year, but I knew we had some ability to attack coming back,” Topeka High coach Derek Snook said. “The biggest thing was whether we were going to meld together the way we needed to and communicate the best we could.”
Having gained a commanding lead, Snook went deep into the bench, but the Trojans continued to pour it on, getting two goals from Natalie Barnes in the second half.
Junior captain Raelee Shipley (10) advances the ball in Topeka High's 5-0 win over Topeka West Tuesday. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Junior captain Raelee Shiplee knew that the Trojans needed to get a game under their belts in order to know what to work on.
“We just had to come out with intensity and communication,” Shiplee said. “After the first game, I think we learned how each other plays. So, I think it will help us more along the road during other games to know how each other plays.”
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By RICK PETERSON
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Washburn Rural's girls soccer team has advanced to the Class 6A Final Four the past 10 seasons and Brian Hensyel's Junior Blues have extremely high hopes again this spring.
Washburn Rural senior Kate Hinck had a goal and two assists in Rural's 5-0 season-opening win over Olathe South. [Photo by Doug Walker/Special to TSN]
Rural flashed their potential in Tuesday's season opener, rolling to a 5-0 shutout non-league victory over Olathe South at McElroy Field.
"We got to start the year with a really good opponent and any time you can play somebody from the Kansas City area and have a nice win, it's good,'' Hensyel said.
Multiple Junior Blues got a late start to practice due to Washburn Rural's appearance in the 6A state basketball tournament and Rural was out of school on spring break last week, but Hensyel was very pleased with his team's '25 debut.
"Any time in any spring sport it's just kind of crazy the first three weeks, whether it's the weather, whether it's spring break, whether it's kids still playing basketball you just have to deal with all of that and when you come back from spring break you just hope what we've practiced will work,'' Hensyel said. "We've got a lot to work on, but we had a pretty nice first game.''
Washburn Rural senior Zahra Friess had a goal and an assist in Rural's 5-0 season-opening win over Olathe South. [Photo by Doug Walker/Special to TSN]
The Junior Blues, who have placed third in 6A the past two seasons, got the only goal they would need at the 31:14 mark of the opening half on a goal from senior newcomer Zahra Friess and Rural also got first-half goals from seniors Delaney Hill and senior Kate Hinck to build a commanding 3-0 halftime advantage.
