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Madison Davison
MADISON DAVISON, Washburn Rural
A sophomore wrestler, Davison entered the Newton Tournament of Champions with a sub.-500 record and was the No. 16 (bottom) seed in the 145-pound weight class. In the first round Davison pulled off a major upset, pinning the No. 1 seed from Garden City. Davison then went on to pin the No. 2 and No. 4- seeded wrestlers, going 4-0 on the day with four first-period pins to win the 145-pound title and help lead Washburn Rual to the team championship by a 220-166 margin over Garden City.
Brooklyn DeLeye
BROOKLYN DeLEYE, Washburn Rural
A 6-foot-2 senior, DeLeye led No. 5-ranked Washburn Rural to a pair of Centennial League victories on the week, scoring 17 points with three 3-pointers and grabbing 11 rebounds in a 47-46 win over No. 8 Topeka High and scoring 16 points while hitting five of nine field goal attempts and going four for four at the free throw line in a 48-32 win over Manhattan. In between her two games DeLeye was named the Gatorade Kansas Volleyball Player of the Year for the second straight season after leading Rural to a 45-1 record and the Class 6A state title.
Katie Price
KATIE PRICE, Seaman
Price, a senior bowler, bowled an oustanding 750 three-game series to win the invididual championship in the Free State Invitational at Royal Crest Lanes. Price bowled games of 223, 248 and 279 to win the title by 134 pins as Seaman won the team championship by a 3,100-3,026 margin over Olathe East. Earlier in the week Price finished second in the Hayden quadrangular with a 579 series as Seaman, the defending Class 5A-1A state champion, won the team title by a 2,882-2599 margin over Topeka West.
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After being held to a season-low 50 points in a Thursday night 20-point loss at Missouri Southern, the Washburn men's basketball team put up 46 points in the first half en route to a wire-to-wire 93-63 MIAA road win over Pittsburg State on Saturday in John Lance Arena.
Junior Tyler Nelson scored 23 points, 18 in the second half, as Washburn rolled to a 93-63 MIAA win at Pittsburg State on Saturday. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
Freshman Jarmell Johnson scored a career-high 16 points, including 14 points and four 3-pointers in the first half, in WU's 93-83 at Pittsburg State. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
The Ichabods, who improvex\d to 6-9 overall and 3-6 in the MIAA, took a season-high 21-point halftime lead as they shot a blistering 64 percent in the first 20 minutes, hitting nine of 14 attempts from 3-point range and making 16 of 32 field goal attempts overall.
"It was good to get off to a good start and that's important for any team, especially a team that's struggled a little bit and especially a team that's a little bit young,'' Washburn coach Brett Ballard told KTPK Radio after the game. "When you're young and you have struggled a little bit the start can really dictate your confidence level and your energy level. It shouldn't, but it does.
"I do think it is more important for this team so that was good to see us come out and really play well to start the game and throughout the first half our offense was as good as it's been all year.''
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Highland Park's girls and boys basketball teams continued their dominating start to Meadowlark Conference competition Friday night, with the Scots winning their two conference games against Kansas City-Harmon by a total of 140 points.
Senior Bo Aldridge (1) scored 27 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and had five assists in Friday's 91-29 win at KC-Harmon. [File photo/TSN]
Highland Park sophomore standout Amelia Ramsey scored 30 points and grabbed 13 rebounds in the Scots' 96-18 Meadowlark Conference win over KC-Harmon. [File photo/TSN]
The top-ranked (Class 5A) Highland Park boys rolled to a 91-29 Meadowlark Conference road win over Harmon while the Scot girls romped to a 96-18 home victory over Harmon.
Highland Park's boys improved to 6-0 overall and 4-0 in the conference as senior Bo Aldridge scored 27 points, grabbed 10 rebounds and had five assists for the Scots.
Sophomore Amelia Ramsey scored 30 points and grabbed 13 points to lead four Scots in double figures as Highland Park's girls improved to 5-1 overall and 4-0 in the conference.
Highland Park's boys will compete in the Topeka Invitational Tournament next week while the Scot girls will travel to Salina for the Salina Invvitational.
PIPER BOYS 71, TOPEKA WEST 56 -- No. 10-ranked (Class 5A) Piper topped No. 6 Topeka West 71-56 in Friday's United Kansas Conference game at West, with the Pirates snapping the Chargers' six-game winning streak.
Topeka West fell to 6-2 overall and 5-2 in the UKC while Piper improved to 6-3 overall and 6-2 in the conference.
West will be at home next week to host the Topeka Invitational Tournament.
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The Class 6A No. 10-ranked Washburn Rural boys led by seven points in the final three minutes against Manhattan on Friday night before the Junior Blues suffered their first Centennial League matchup of the year, 60-58, in heartbreaking fashion on a buzzer-beater by Indian senior Dre Delort.
Senior Jack Bachelor led Washburn Rural with 15 points in Friday's 60-58 Centennial League loss to Manhattan at Rural. [File photo/TSN]
“If you look at the whole game aside from the third quarter we just weren’t very strong with the ball,” said Washburn Rural coach Alex Hutchins. “And then closing late we gotta guard. We gave up I think nine points in the last minute and a half so we just got to get stops to finish a game.”
Rural scored 23 points in the third quarter but was held to 10 in the final frame as the team's four-game win streak was snapped.
“In the third quarter we were strong and aggressive and didn’t play on our heels which was the biggest thing,” Hutchins said.
Hutchins is hoping to find consistency as the team moves into the back half of its season.
“Our guys are probably chomping at the bit wanting to get back on the court but we just got to be consistent, that’s the biggest thing. Every game we have shown flashes of great and we have shown flashes of awful, we just have to be more consistent,” Hutchins said.
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Hayden's 67-57 win over Topeka High on Friday night was an "all hands on deck" clinic.
Class 4A No. 6-ranked Hayden breathed easier after snapping a brief three-game losing streak.
Hayden's Joe Otting (left), Mister Cameron and Dominik Ridley helped the Wildcats snap a three-game losing streak with a 67-57 win over Topeka High Friday at Hayden. [Photo by Isaac Deer/TSN]
However, winning a backyard brawl against a team right down the road from Hayden was challenging.
"I feel like the three games that we lost were all winnable at one point in the game," Hayden coach Dwayne Paul said. "I felt like in every game, we were right there. So today, to come in against a lot of our defensive principles in switching one through five, putting Joe (Otting) into soe tough matchups was good.
"Credit goes to Topeka High. They shoot the ball so well that you can't hedge off of their guys. They play with five guards at all times. So you have to be able to run them off of the line and make contested twos rather than penetrating and kicking threes. I thought, for the most part, we did a pretty good job of that."
