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By Todd Fertig
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The Cair Paravel Latin boys basketball team held off a late rally by Mission Valley to beat the Vikings 48-40 at Cair Paravel Thursday.
The Lions built an 18-point lead by the middle of the third period, but saw that margin evaporate quickly.
Cair Paravel senior Simon Everhart (1) drives the lane in Thursday's 48-40 win over Mission Valley. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Mission Valley used a 13-2 run to get back in the contest, eventually whittling the Cair Paravel lead to just three points with a minute remaining.
“There’s a lot of momentum that happens,” Cair Paravel coach Chip Kueffer said. “There for a moment we were playing not to lose. You always want to play to win. In the first half, we took some bad shots that went in. That’s sort of fool’s gold. That catches up to you.''
The Lions were handcuffed by fouls which sent several of their players to the bench for extended stretches. The Lions committed 17 fouls in the first period alone.
“You can write it on the white board but sometimes the game gets away from you. You’ve got to control what you can control,” Kueffer said. “Fortunately, we had a lot of guys come in off the bench and make contributions early. I’m grateful for the way we handled the adversity.”
Most notably, Cair Paravel senior Rich Hembold come into the game and drilled three 3-pointers in the second period.
When it got down to crunch time, it was senior guard Simon Everhart who came through. He scored 10 of the Lions’ last 13 points, mainly by knocking down eight of nine free throws in the second half.
Chip Kueffer's Cair Paravel Latin boys improved to 3-2 with Thursday's 48-40 win over Mission Valley. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
“Evan Will, Simon Everhart, Ty Gossard, those guys made big plays in the last three or four minutes,” Kueffer said. “We kind of made it hard on ourselves, but those guys kept their composure and finished the game for us.”
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By RICK PETERSON
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EMPORIA -- The Hayden Wildcats, most of them anyway, got a two-week late start in preparations for the 2023-2024 basketball because they were busy helping the Wildcat football team make a run to the Class 3A title game.
Trey Brown (left), talking to his Hayden team during a time out, picked up his first win as the Wildcats' head coach Thursday, a 69-53 decision over Trinity Academy. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
But while the Wildcats may not have been in midseason form they turned in a pretty good impression of that Thursday in the opening round of the Paul Terry Classic at White Auditorium, riding a 30-point third quarter and a 22-point night from Cooper Colboch to a 69-53 win over Trinity Academy in Trey Brown's debut as Hayden's head coach.
"It was good to see what we need to clean up and what things we've got and the guys we've got and different things like that,'' Brown said. "We battled through adversity in the first half and struggled offensively, but we picked it up defensively and then scored 30 points in the third, which most of it was off our defense. We learned a lot.''
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By RICK PETERSON
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EMPORIA -- Hayden's girls basketball team wasn't always as sharp offensively as coach Carvel Reynoldson would like to see Thursday against Spring Hill.
But the Wildcats were very good defensively and effective in turning that defense into offense on the way to a 48-30 win over the Broncos in the opening game of the Paul Terry Classic at White Auditorium.
Hayden girls basketball coach Carvel Reynoldson talks to his team during a timeout in Thursday's 48-30 win over Spring Hill. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
"We were really balanced offensively but never got in a rhythm, especially in our half court,'' Reynoldson said. "A lot of things we got seemed to be in transition off of steals or off a rebound.
"We always talk about being relentless (on defense) and I thought today we were relentless on the ball, got a lot of deflections and early on it felt like all of our points were off of steals.''
Hayden, ranked No. 2 in Class 3A by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association, never trailed after junior Kaliya Fulton scored the final points of the opening quarter to put the 2-0 Wildcats in front, 8-6.
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By RICK PETERSON
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MATTHEWS, NC. -- No. 2 final four seed Washburn will play for a national championship for the first time in program history after a 1-0 semifinal win over No. 2 Adelphi University on Thursday afternoon.
The Ichabods will take on No. 4 seed Point Loma in the championship on Saturday at 11 a.m. Central Time.
Freshman Mackinly Rohn (24) is congratulated by her Washburn teammates after scoring the game-winning goal in Thursday's 1-0 win over Adelphi. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
Washburn's soccer team hoists the updated final four bracket after Thursday's 1-0 semifinal win over Adelphi. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
A 56th minute goal by former Washburn Rural standout Mackinly Rohn was the difference in the semifinal match and moved Washburn into the final match of the season.
"Credit to Adelphi,'' Washburn coach Davy Phillips said. "They're a great team and made it really hard on us. They were super organized, but I'm super happy for my team the way they were able to just stick with the game plan and (pull) it out.''
The Ichabod offense pressured the goal all afternoon as they outshot the Panthers 20 to three, including 13 to two in the second half.
Washburn's soccer team rushes the field at the conclusion of Thursday's 1-0 win over Adelphi in the NCAA national semifinals. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
Washburn had seven shots in the first half, with five of them going on goal, while holding Adelphi to just one shot overall, which landed off target.
Finally, Rohn, a freshman, was able to find the back of the net after a shot by Khloe Schuckman was deflected to the left side of the field just in front of the goal.
For the game the Ichabods ended with 11 shots on goal and the Panthers managed only one.
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Washburn University soccer is set for its first-ever national semifinal appearance on Thursday, taking on Adelphi University at 1 p.m. at the Sportplex in Matthews, N.C.
Junior Khloe Schuckman leads Washburn with 11 goals entering Thursday's NCAA semifinal contest in Matthews, N.C. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
Davy Phillips' Washburn soccer team is two wins a way from a national championship entering this week's final four in Matthews, N.C. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
The Ichabods earned their historic final four berth with a 1-0 win in the national quarterfinals over Grand Valley State in Ashland, Ohio.
All four remaining teams were re-seeded for the final four, with the Ichabods being selected as the No. 3 seed and Adelphi No. 2. On the other side of the bracket No. 1 Florida Tech will face No. 4 Point Loma at 10 a.m. on Friday.
The national championship match will be played at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
This is the third appearance in the NCAA Tournament in program history for Washburn, and the first since the 2008 season.
The Ichabods are 6-2 in NCAA Tournament matches after adding four wins to begin this season's tournament run.
All matches for this week's tournament will be live streamed on the NCAA website at no charge.
Washburn enters the semifinals with a 20-3-1 record.
Washburn has set a program record with 20 wins this season and will break the program record for matches played in a season on Thursday, with the semifinals being the Ichabods' 25th match of the year.
Khloe Schuckman has scored five goals in the NCAA Tournament run, with three going for game-winners and two coming in overtime.
Schuckman is tied for second nationally with seven game-winning goals this season. She leads Washburn in both points and goals with 27 and 11, respectively. She is also second on the Ichabods with five assists while leading with 63 shots on the year.
Raegan Wells has played every minute of the tournament and recorded two shutouts.
Wells is tied for fifth in the nation in solo shutouts with 12 on the year.
Grace Peterson scored the match-winning goal against Grand Valley State in the 81st minute, the first goal of Peterson's collegiate career.
Washburn Rural product Mackinly Rohn leads the Ichabods with seven assists on the year. She's also scored three goals to sit tied for third on the team with 13 points. She has started all but two matches and logged 1,438 minutes as a freshman.
Adelphi University enters the final four with a 15-3-5 record on the year
The Panthers defeated Gannon University 1-0 in the quarterfinals to advance to the semifinals
Gia Mandile leads the Panthers offense with 20 points on the year coming on eight goals and four assists. She has started 11 matches and played in 21 for 1,006 minutes.
Kayleigh Goodrich is second on the squad in scoring at 17 points on six goals and five assists. She has played in 19 matches and logged 1,523 minutes.
The Panthers have allowed only one goal in the NCAA Tournament.
With a win Washburn would face the winner of No. 1. Florida Tech and No. 4 Point Loma on Saturday.
