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By RICK PETERSON
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Every win is big, especially for a Topeka West boys soccer team that has struggled in recent seasons.
But a win over USD 501 rival Topeka High is extra special for the Chargers, who took a 1-0 victory over the Trojans Monday night at Hummer Sports Park, West's first win over High since 2020.
Topeka West's soccer team leaves the field Monday at Hummer Sports Park after taking a 1-0 win over USD 501 rival Topeka High. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
"Every time we play HIgh it is a whole different game to us,'' said senior Harrison Lane, who scored the game-winning goal midway through the second half. "It means more and to get this win tonight it means so much to our seniors and our incoming freshmen.
"It really shows them how how good we can be and shows them how good we are.''
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After a standout soccer career at Washburn Rural, Mackinly Rohn has picked up where she left off to start her college career for Washburn University.
After earning All-Centennial League, All-City and All-Class 6A recognition for Brian Hensyel at Rural, Rohn has played a key role for Davy Phillips' Ichabods this fall in a 3-1 start to the season.
Freshman Mackinly Rohn (24) is congratulated by her Washburn teammates, including former Washburn Rural teammate Belle Kennedy (12) after Rohn scored her first collegiate goal in Sunday's 4-1 win over Wayne State. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Rohn, a 5-foot-7 forward, has played in all four games with two starts for WU, scoring her first collegiate goal in Sunday's 4-1 home win over Wayne State and leading the Ichabods with four assists, including three in Friday's 4-0 home win over Southwest Minnesota State and another assist in Sunday's victory.
Rohn's three assists against Southwest Minnesota State tied a school record for single-game assists.
"I would say I'm super grateful and I've just tried to work as hard as I can and do whatever I can to help the team out and help us succeed,'' Rohn said of her start to the '23 season.
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Finn Dunshee
FINN DUNSHEE, Hayden
A 5-foot-10, 185-pound senior, Dunshee rushed for 154 yards and three touchdowns on just eight attempts as 2-0 Hayden rolled to a 56-7 non-league football victory over Silver Lake last Friday night at Hayden. Dunshee, the reigning Class 4A state 100-meter dash champion in track, scored on runs of 7, 56 and 39 yards for the Wildcats. Dunshee was an All-Shawnee County Top 22 pick as a junior.
Jackson Esquibel
JACKSON ESQUIBEL, Shawnee Heights
The Shawnee Heights senior cross country star set a personal-best and broke the Heights school record en route to the individual championship in Saturday's Joe Schrag Invitational at Kanza Park. A Class 5A state champion in track and two-time state placer in cross country, Esquibel posted a five-kilometer time of 15:28.20 while setting his PR by about 20 seconds and setting the school record by 13 seconds.
Max Huston
MAX HUSTON, Seaman
A 6-foot-1, 180-pound junior quarterback, Huston threw for seven touchdowns in last Friday's 59-6 United Kansas Conference home romp past Kansas City-Turner. Unofficially, Huston threw for TD passes of 5, 15, 20, 30, 43, 67 and 79 yards against the Bears. Seaman has outscored its two UKC opponents by a 135-1 margin while Huston has thrown for 12 touchdowns on the season.
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After spotting Wayne State a 1-0 lead, Washburn University's soccer team dominated the remainder of Sunday's non-conference match, scoring four unanswered goals to take a decisive 4-1 victory at Yager Stadium.
The Ichabods improved to 3-1 on the season after winning their second straight home match.
Washburn University freshman Mackinly Rohn (middle), a former Washburn Rural standout, is congratulated after scoring her first collegiate goal in Sunday's 4-1 non-conference win over Wayne State. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Junior Ana Muruzabal (10) scored her third goal of the season in Sunday's 4-1 Washburn soccer win over Wayne State at Yager Stadium. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
After scoring four goals in the first half on Friday and never trailing, Washburn fell behind in the sixth minute of Sunday's match, with Washburn Rural product Reagan Allen scoring for Wayne State on a breakaway.
Washburn Rural product Reagan Allen (right) scored Wayne State's lone goal in Sunday's 4-1 soccer loss to Washburn University. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
"I thought we were better than them to begin with,'' Ichabod coach Davy Phillips said. "For me it's about competing the whole time. I think we have a tendency when we feel the game is in hand to relax a little bit. In college it's different than high school. Every team can punish you if you let them, so for us it's about being at our best for longer periods of time.''
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Shawnee Heights senior cross country star Jackson Esquibel had a couple of goals in mind when he took the starting line for Saturday's Topeka West Joe Schrag Invitational at Kanza Park.
Shawnee Heights senior Jackson Esquibel set a personal record and set the Heights school record with his win in Saturday's Joe Schrag Invitational. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
The two-time Class 5A state placer in cross country and a state champion in track accomplished both of them in convincing fashion, setting a personal-best by about 20 seconds while also setting the Shawnee Heights school record by 13 seconds with his winning five-kilometer effort of 15 minutes, 28.20 seconds.
Esquibel broke the previous school record of 15:41 set by his former teammate,Kory Sutton, who was on hand to cheer on his close friend.
"I ran a summer race here and ran pretty well,'' Esquibel said. "I ran under 16, 15:59, and I knew after last week's meet where I ran 40 seconds faster than I did the year before at that course (Wyandotte County Park), I just came into this meet telling myself that this is a race where you could really work on your front-running and you've run this course enough to know when you want to push it and when you feel like you're letting off the gas.''
Esquibel went out hard at the start of the race to take the lead en route to a win by nearly 28 seconds over Leavenworth senior Jonathan Purvis (15:56.07).
