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Topeka West senior Elijah Brooks and Seaman senior Ty Henry have been selected to play in the Kansas Basketball Coaches Association All-Star boys game June 18 in Salina.
Brooks, 6-foot-4, will play for the Blue team while Henry, 6-5, will play for the Gold.
Topeka West star Elijah Brooks has been picked to play for the Blue team in the KBCA All-Star Game on June 18 in Salina. [File photo/TSN]
Seaman standout Ty Henry has been chosen to play for the Gold team in the KBCA All-Star Game on June 18 in Salina. [File photo/TSN]
Brooks helped lead Topeka West to the Class 5A state tournament as a senior while Henry helped lead Seaman to the school's first-ever 5A state championship.
Seaman coach Craig Cox, who coached his third state championship basketball team (five titles overall), will serve as an assistant coach for the Gold.
Washburn Rural coach Kevin Bordewick, who coached the Junior Blues to their second 6A state title since 2019 (his ninth title overall), will serve as an assistant coach for the Blue team in the KBCA All-Star girls game.
Cox has been named the KBCA's 5A boys coach of the year while Bordewick has been named the 6A girls coach of the year.
The KBCA games will be played at 5 p.m. (girls) and 7:30 (boys) on June 18 at Kansas Wesleyan's Mabee Gym.
Former city high school coaches Bryce Stallard and Mike Brinsko will be inducted into the KBCA Hall of Fame.
Stallard, who passed away in 2006, coached Washburn Rural to the Class A state boys championship in 1960 while Brinsko had a successful run at Highland Park before moving to Shawnee Mission West.
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Washburn Rural Hall of Famer Bill Annan admits there was some uneasines this spring as he pondered where the next step in his long career was going to take him.
But things couldn't have worked out a whole lot better for the veteran women's basketball coach, who was named an assistant coach at Oral Roberts University on Wednesday after a 13-year stint at Oklahoma State.
Bill Annan
Oral Roberts is located in Tulsa, Okla., where Bill and Marcia Annan's sons, Trent and Grant, both live and is just 70 miles from Stillwater, making Annan's move more like a hop.
"Both boys are in Tulsa and they're pretty grounded,'' Annan said. "Both are doing well professionally and they're going to be there, they aren't going anywhere. Marcia and I have talked a long time about and that's probably where we wanted to end up and this was absolutely the best way to get there.
"It was just the right time and the right place and everything kind of connected.''
Annan posted a career record of 303-109 at Washburn Rural, leading the Lady Blues to Class 6A state titles in 1996, 1999 and 2009 before moving on to Oklahoma State in 2009.
Annan's Rural teams won 11 Centennial League titles in 18 years and made nine state tournament appearances.
Annan is a three-time Kansas Basketball Coaches Association coach of the year as well as a seven-time pick for conference coach of the year.
He was named the city coach of the year five times, the state coach of the year twice and was named the Kansas Coaches Association coach of the year in 1999.
He began his coaching career in 1986 at Seaman where he served five seasons as an assistant for the Vikings' boys team.
Annan served as Oklahoma State's associate head coach for the past nine seasons. Prior to that Annan was the program's assistant coach for two seasons as well as director of player development when he began his stint in 2009.
During his time at OSU, the Cowgirls made six NCAA tournament appearances, including a Sweet 16 run in 2014, and captured the program's first WNIT title in 2012.
From 2013-16, the Cowgirls made four straight season NCAA tournament appearances.
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MIAA regular-season softball champion Washburn will make its fifth NCAA postseason appearance and the second since the 2018 when the Ichabods open play at 2 p.m. on Thursday against Minnesota State in Claremore, Okla.
Washburn (45-13) is the No. 5 seed while Minnesota State (46-12) is the No. 4 seed.
Washburn University's softball team will begin its NCAA Division II Tournament bid at 2 p.m. Thursday at Claremore, Okla. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
The other two teams in the sub-region is the region's top seed Rogers State (47-9) and the No. 8 seed Winona State (38-15).
The winner of this four-team regional will take on the winner of the other Central Regional being played in Edmond, Okla. The four teams there are No. 2 seed Central Oklahoma (45-10), No. 3 seed Augustana (47-8), No. 6 seed Arkansas Tech (39-17) and No. 7 seed Southern Arkansas (37-16).
The two regional winners will face each other in a best two-of-three series starting May 19 at a site to be determined.
The Ichabods had their school-record 24-game winning streak snapped at the MIAA Tournament going 3-2 over the weekend, with both losses coming to Rogers State, including a ninth-inning walk off in the MIAA Tournament Championship game.
Former Washburn Rural coach Brenda Holaday is in her sixth season as the Ichabod softball coach, recording a 178-114 overall record and going 91-41 in MIAA contests.
Holaday led the Ichabods to their first MIAA regular-season title in her second year in 2018 and the fourth in school history this season. She has also led the Ichabods to NCAA Regional berths in 2018 and this season, the fourth and fifth appearances in school history.
The Ichabods recorded their first 40-win season since 2002 when the Ichabods went 48-11.
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Hayden's girls soccer team snapped a five-game losing streak against Class 6A and 5A competition with a 5-0 Centennial League road romp past 5A Emporia on Tuesday.
Now 8-5-1 on the season, the Wildcats took control with a pair of first-half goals and added three goals after the break.
Hayden soccer got back on track Tuesday with a 5-0 Centennial League win at Emporia. The Wildcats improved to 8-5-1 on the season. [File photo/TSN]
Sophomore Jill Lenherr, junior Briahna Barnett, senior Elizabeth Dunshee and junior Piper Wrench scored goals for the Wildcats, who also benefitted from an own goal.
Junior Sloane Sims was credited with a pair of assists while Lenherr and senior Riley Schmidtlein also had assists for the Wildcats.
Senior Macy Smith and sophomore Hannah Schmitz combined for the shutout in goal for Hayden.
The Wildcats will close out their regular season at Washburn Rural on Thursday.
HAYDEN 5, EMPORIA 0
Hayden 2 3 -- 5
Emporia 0 0 -- 0
Hayden -- Goals: Lenherr, Barnett, Dunshee, Wrench, own goal. Assists: Sims 2, Lenherr, Schmidtlein. Shutout: Smith, Schmitz.
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Hayden senior Tanner Newkirk was named the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency Boys Athlete of the Week after setting three records in the Joe Schrag City Invitational. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
TANNER NEWKIRK, Hayden
Newkirk, a senior, set three boys city meet records in last Friday's Joe Schrag City Invitational track and field championships at Hummer Sports Park.
Newkirk won the 1,600 meters in 4:10.88, the 800 in 1:55.69 and the 3,200 in 9:18.89 to lead the Wildcats to a second-place team finish behind Washburn Rural.
The Kansas signee broke two records which had stood for years and another that had stood for 31 years.
Seaman sophomore Taylin Stallbaumer is the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency Girls Athlete of the Week after claiming three gold medals in the Joe Schrag City Invitational, helping the Vikings win the girls team title. [File photo/TSN]
TAYLIN STALLBAUMER, Seaman
Stallbaumer, a sophomore, captured three gold medals in last Friday's Joe Schrag City Invitational track and field championships, helping lead Seaman to the girls team title by a 146-134 margin over Washburn Rural.
Stallbaumer won the 100-meter hurdles in 16.25 seconds and the 300 hurdles in 49.21 seconds, sweeping the city hurdles titles for the second straight year.
Stallbaumer also ran a leg on the Vikings' 4 x 400 relay team, which won in 4:15.31.
