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Shawnee County football standouts Jacob Carver, Ben Evans,Joe Otting, Tre Richardson and Ty Weber have been selected to play in the 50th annual Kansas Shrine Bowl, which will be played July 15 in Hays.
Carver is a 6-foot-2, 300-pound lineman out of Rossville while Evans is a 6-2, 275 lineman and Otting a 6-5, 281 lineman out of Hayden, Richardson a 5-11, 175 receiver/running back from Highland Park and Weber a 6-3, 230 linebacker for Washburn Rural.
All five local player were named to the TopSports.news All-Shawnee County Top 22 for the 2022 season.
Hayden advanced to the Class 3A sub-state round in '22 with a 10-2 record while Washburn Rural posted an 8-3 record and made it to the third round of the 6A playoffs, Highland Park had a breakout 6-3 season and Rossville went 5-5 after winning back-to-back state championships.
Hayden coach Bill Arnold will serve as an assistant coach for the East.
Shawnee County Shrine Bowl selections at a glance:
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EDMOND, Okla. -- A 32-5 Central Oklahoma run in the first half was the difference as the No. 9-ranked Bronchos went on to post a 72-57 home MIAA win over Washburn's men Saturday at Hamilton Fieldhouse.
The Ichabods led 3-0 on a 3-pointer by Michael Keegan 14 seconds into the game and a layup by Andrew Orr with 16:27 to go in the first half gave WU (4-7, 1-4) a 10-8 lead but UCO (12-1, 6-1 MIAA) outscored the Ichabods 32-5 the remaining of the half to take a commanding 40-19 lead to the locker room at the half.
Washburn sophomore Levi Braun scored 17 points with five 3-pointers to lead the Ichabods in Saturday's 72-57 MIAA loss at Central Oklahoma. [File photo/TSN]
Washburn sophomores Michael Keegan (23) and Andrew Orr (24) scored 15 points apiece in the Ichabods' 72-57 MIAA loss at Central Missouri on Saturday. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
During the Central Oklahoma run the Ichabods went just two of 15 from the field while the Bronchos hit 11 of 19 shots.
Washburn outscored the Bronchos 38-32 in the second half while shooting 59 percent in the half but could not overcome the halftime deficit.
Hayden product Levi Braun came off the bench to lead the Ichabods with 17 points, hitting five of seven 3-pointers and six of nine shots from the field overall.
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EDMOND, Okla. -- Washburn University's women's basketball team closed out the 2022 calendar year on a high note Saturday afternoon, with five Ichabods cracking double figures as WU held on for a 75-73 MIAA road win at Central Oklahoma.
Hanover native Macy Doebele led Washburn with a career-high 19 points and hit 17 of 20 free throws in the Ichabods' 75-73 win at Central Oklahoma Saturday. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Washburn leaves the floor after Saturday's 75-73 MIAA road win at Central Oklahoma. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN[
Hanover product Macy Doebele, a 5-foot-11 junior, led five Ichabods with a career-high 19 points, including a 17 of 20 performance from the free throw line to set a program record for the most free throws made in a single game. Doebele also pulled down six rebounds for WU, which improved to 6-5 overall and 2-3 in the MIAA.
Freshman Natalia Figueroa made five of eight shots from the floor and tallied 13 points while freshman Gabi Artis and junior Mackenzie Gamble both made three 3-pointers and totaled 12 and 11 points, respectively.
Freshman Natalia Figueroa (right), who score 13 points, drives to the basket Saturday in Washburn's 75-73 MIAA win at Central Oklahoma. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
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Washburn junior point guard Aubree Dewey (3) talks with Ichabod coach Lora Westling during WU's 75-73 MIAA win at Central Oklahoma on Saturday. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Junior Emma Chapman rounded out Washburn's double-figure scorers with 10 points while junior point guard Aubree Dewey hit four of her six shot attempts for eight points and grabbed a team-high seven rebounds and dished out a team-best seven assists.
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Gabi Artis' focus these days is on developing as a college basketball player for Washburn University.
But the former Bishop Miege star will never forget her late high school coach, Terry English, and the things he did to help get her ready to take that next step.
Washburn freshman Gabi Artis, a three-time state champ at Bishop Miege, is coming off a career-high 11-point night in Thursday's 57-40 win over Bethany. [File photo/TSN]
English, who passed away on Oct. 11, was Artis' head coach during her first three high school seasons and served as an assistant coach during her senior season after Terry turned the head coaching reins over to his son, Jeff, for the 2021-2022 season.
Artis and English were part of three Class 4A titles at Miege while English was part of 23 state championships and compiled an amazing 910-168 career record. He had planed to return to the Miege bench as head coach this season before passing away at 72 years old after a stroke.
"It was heartbreaking,'' Artis said. "Honestly, I didn't believe it when they told me. He was going to come back to coach this year and it's still just settling with me. It was such a shock and it just broke my heart.''
Artis, who has made an immediate impact as a freshman for the Ichabods, credits English for helping her develop as a player and person.
"He helped me a lot -- basketball, personal,'' Artis said. "We were really close. I feel like our practices in high school were ran like college practices and I think it prepared me well.
"He was really tough on me in practices and he would be like, "Gabi, you're going to go play at Washburn, you need to do this,' and would coach me through everything and boost me up when I needed to be and bring me down when I needed to be.''
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Tyler Nelson, one of the most experienced players for a young Washburn University men's basketball team, had to sit and watch as the Ichabods endured a tough early-season stretch.
The 6-foot-3 junior guard missed the first five games with a Jones fracture in his foot and played limited minutes in the Ichabods' next three games while working his way back into game shape.
Washburn junior guard Tyler Nelson (14) celebrates a big play for the Ichabods in a 76-51 win over Missouri Western along with teammate Connor Deffebaugh (10). [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Washburn junior Tyler Nelson scored 19 points with seven rebounds, six assists and six steals in the Ichabods' 76-51 MIAA romp past Missouri Western on Dec. 17. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
And now that the former Kansas City-Rockhurst, Mo. standout is finally close to full strength, Nelson is determined to do everything he can to help Brett Ballard's Ichabods reverse their fortunes after a 4-6 start to the 2022-2023 campaign.
"It's always frustrating going down with an injury and not being able to play out and compete with the guys,'' Nelson said. "That's always frustrating but the guys lift me up. We have good practices, good workouts so that just builds up my confidence so when I come back I'm just ready to hoop.
"We're all ready to hoop and it's always enjoyable to play the game I love.''
