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DE SOTO (4-1, 2-0) at SEAMAN (4-0, 3-0)
Seaman junior Taylin Stallbaumer scored 11 points, with three 3-pointers, in the No. 2-ranked Vikings' 63-35 win over Piper Tuesday night. [File photo/TSN]
Seaman, ranked No. 2 in Class 5A by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association, will square off with No. 6 De Soto in a key United Kansas Conference contest. Both teams are unbeaten in the UKC, with De Soto coming off a 66-28 win over Kansas City-Turner while Seaman rolled to a 63-35 win over Piper Tuesday night. Sophomore Anna Becker had 19 points, 6 assists, 3 steals and 3 3-pointers for Seaman in the win over Piper while junior Taylin Stallbaumer had 11 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists and 3 3s and junor Brooklyn Gormley added 10 points.
KC-BISHOP WARD (1-3) at HAYDEN (2-1)
Hayden went 2-1 in last week's Paul Terry Classic at Emporia, including a 47-26 win over Wichita Trinity on Saturday. Junior Lauren Sandstrom and sophomore Brylee Meier combined for 31 points for the Wildcats, with Sandstrom scoring 18 points and Meier adding 13, including four 3-pointers. Ward is 1-3 after a 64-3 loss to Chapman in the Irish Classic. The Cyclones' lone with was a 46-37 decision over Kansas City-Turner.
Topeka West junior Zoe Clark (35) scored 16 points in the Chargers' 58-53 overtime loss to Lansing Tuesday night. [File photo/TSN]
KC-TURNER (0-3, 0-2) at TOPEKA WEST (0-4, 0-4 through Tuesday)
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Highland Park sophomore basketball standout Amelia Ramsey and Washburn Rural sophomore wrestling standout Easton Broxterman have been named the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency Rising Stars of the Week.
The Dan Key Agency will recognize top Shawnee County underclassmen throughout the 2022-2023 school year.
Here’s a brief look at the accomplishments of Ramsey and Broxterman last week:
Highland Park sophomore Amelia Ramsey is averaging 21.5 points through her first two basketball games and coming off a 27-point, 24-rebound perormance in the Scots' 68-9 win over KC-Southeast Tuesday night. [File photo/TSN]
AMELIA RAMSEY, Highland Park
Ramsey, a 6-foot sophomore, opened the 2022-2023 season with a team-high 16 points in last Tuesday's Highland Park loss to Bonner Springs and followed that up with a career night in Tuesday night's 68-9 non-league romp past Kansas City-Southeast, Mo., finishing with a double-double of 27 points and 24 rebounds.
Ramsey, who started for the Scots as a freshman, scored more points in the first seven minutes of the game than the Knights would score in the game.
Washburn Rural sophomore wrestler Easton Broxterman posted a second-place finish at 113 pounds in last weekend's 41-school Council Bluffs Classic. [File photo/TSN]
EASTON BROXTERMAN, Washburn Rural
Broxterman, a sophomore 113-pound wrestler, finished second in the 41-school Council Bluffs (Iowa) Classic boys division to pace the two-time defending Class 6A state-champion Washburn Rural boys.
A Class 6A finalist as a freshman, Broxterman, off to an 11-1 start this season, lost a tight 8-5 decision to Fort Dodge junior Dru Ayala in the 113-pound championhip match. Broxterman is currently ranked No. 2 in the All-Class and Class 6A rankings by the Kansas Wrestling Coaches Association.
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The Washburn Ichabod football team placed two players on the NCAA Division II Conference Commissioner's Association All-American team, with senior return specialist James Letcher Jr. and senior linebacker Grant Bruner earning first-team accolades.
Washburn senior James Letcher Jr. has received his seventh All-America honor as an Ichabod, earning first-team All-D2CCA recognition as a return specialist. [File photo]
Washburn senior linebacker Grant Bruner has received first-team All-America honors from the D2CCA, Bruner's first All-America honor as an Ichabod. [File photo]
The award is Bruner's first All-American award at Washburn and it is Letcher's seventh as an Ichabod, including being a repeat selection on the D2CCA All-American first-team as a return specialist.
The award is voted on by the division's athletic communication and sports information staffs across the country.
A repeat D2CCA first-team all-region selection at return specialist in 2022, Letcher is the two-time MIAA Special Teams Player of the Year as well as a two-time first-team All-MIAA return specialist.
Letcher averaged 26.0 yards per punt return on 11 attempts with two touchdowns, including an 89-yard return against Missouri Southern in the season finale.
Letcher was also a second-team D2CCA all-region pick at wide receiver in 2022.
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Seaman's girls basketball team, ranked No. 2 in Class 5A by the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association, continued its dominating start to the 2022-2023 season Tuesday night, rolling to a 63-35 United Kansas Conference victory at Piper.
Sophomore Anna Becker led Seaman with 19 points in Tuesday's 63-35 UKC win at Piper, the Vikings' fourth straight victory. [File photo/TSN]
Now 4-0 overall and 3-0 in the UKC, the Vikings got 19 points, six assists, three steals and three 3-pointers from sophomore standout Anna Becker while junior Taylin Stallbaumer contributed 11 points, six rebounds, four assists and three 3-pointers.
Junior Brooklyn Gormley was the third Seaman player to crack double figures, scoring 10 points and grabbing four rebounds.while senior Jaycee Schumann had five assists and four steals.
Seaman players were credited with 18 assists on 21 made baskets while six Vikings combined for the team's 10 3-point baskets.
Seaman will be at home Friday to host sixth-ranked De Soto in a 5:45 p.m. UKC contest.
TOPEKA HIGH GIRLS 75, MANHATTAN 42 -- Defending Centennial League champion Topeka High opened defense of its league title with a 75-42 romp at Manhattan Tuesday night.
The Trojans, ranked 10th in Class 6A by the KBCA, improved to 5-1 on the season with their fifth straight victory as senior Kiki Smith led the way with 18 points, one of four Topeka High players in double figures.
Senior Faith Shields and sophomore Jo'Mhara Benning added 14 points apiece for the Trojans while junior Ladaysha Baird scored 12 points.
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After an 11-0 start things looked promising for the Washburn Rural boys (2-2) on Tuesday night against Shawnee Mission Northwest (2-1), but a stagnant offense the rest of the way cost the Junior Blues late, with Rural losing 58-51 to the Cougars.
“I thought we got pretty good looks, for the most part, most of the night but we hit some early and didn’t hit as many as the game went on,” said Washburn Rural coach Alex Hutchins after his first home game. “Credit to them, they do a good job of pressuring, I think their ball pressure affected us and sped us up.”
Senior Jack Bachelor led Washburn Rural with 17 points in Tuesday's 58-51 non-league loss to Shawnee Mission Northwest. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
After scoring 19 points in the third quarter Rural was outscored 17-9 in the final period to lose at home. The Junior Blues were also without second-leading scorer, senior Wyatt Conklin, as well as sophomore Max Bettis, leading to only seven players seeing action.
Seniors Jack Bachelor and Jacob Hirschi scored nine of the 11 points in Rural’s 11-0 run to open the game. Three 3-pointers in the final four minutes of the quarter by Northwest sophomore Aiven Riley helped spur a 10-0 run and make it 17-13 after one.
Back-to-back layups by junior JC Heim had the Junior Blues ahead late in the second quarter. The Cougars again ended strong, on a 4-0 run to take a 24-23 lead at the half.
The third quarter featured seven lead changes, with the offenses of both teams working as well as they would the whole game. Sophomore Kaden Ballard scored seven straight points for Rural late in the third quarter to bring the Junior Blues from down one to up by three.
