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By RICK PETERSON
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Eight Washburn University baseball players received recognition on the 2022 All-MIAA Baseball Team, released Thursday afternoon by the conference office.
Three Washburn players earned All-MIAA second team accolades.
Senior third baseman Brett Ingram earned a second-team nod for the second consecutive year as he has put together a career season, surpassing his stats from the previous two years combined. He has started all 47 games and leads the team with a .369 batting average, 72 hits (fifth in the MIAA), 48 runs, 17 doubles (sixth in the MIAA) and 24 multi-hit games. He is also second on the team with 43 runs batted in and 11 home runs. On March 13 at Northeastern State, Ingram was a grand slam shy of hitting for the home run cycle as he finished the game 5-7 with three homers, four runs, and six RBI.
Pitchers Dalton Huggins and Casey Steward both earned their first all-conference award and joined Ingram on the second team.
Huggins, a Washburn Rural product, has recorded an impressive senior season on the mound for the Ichabods as he ranks in the top-10 among MIAA pitchers in 11 different stat categories. He has a conference-low 3.22 ERA to go with a team-leading 79 strikeouts (third in the MIAA). He's held opponents to a .220 batting average (third in MIAA) and a conference-low 46 hits and 25 runs. The southpaw is 5-1 with three saves in 58.2 innings of work. Against Fort Hays State earlier this year, he struck out a career-high eight batters and allowed just one run, one walk, and three hits in 5 1/3 innings.
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By RICK PETERSON
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Not even a 50-minute mid-game rain or a two-hour starting time delay could slow down the No. 23-ranked Washburn Ichabods as they rolled to an 8-0 win over Emporia State behind Jaycee Ginter's no-hitter in the opening game of the 2022 MIAA Softball Championships.
Washburn, the No. 1 seed and MIAA regular season champions, will face Missouri Western on Friday at 4 p.m. The Ichabods have won 23 straight games.
Jaycee Ginter threw her second career no-hitter for Washburn in Friday's 8-0 MIAA tournament win over Emporia State. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
Ginter, a former Shawnee Heights star, tossed her second no-hitter in a Washburn uniform, improving to 29-3 in the circle while striking out three and needing just 76 pitches in the game.
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Wins don’t come any tougher than they did for the Seaman Vikings in Thursday night’s 3-1 Centennial League road soccer victory over Topeka High.
The Vikings (9-4-1), who posted their third straight win, had to overcome a rainstorm and a Topeka High (10-4-0) squad, which had won five straight games.
Seaman soccer coach Tim Nussbaum talks to his team after Thursday's 3-1 Centennial League win over Topeka High. [Photo by Isaac Deer/TSN]
In back-to-back games, Seaman was able to put up outstanding first halves, giving their defense quite a bit of security in the second half.
In the last two games, Seaman has outscored their foes (High and Hayden), 6-0.
“We are playing great soccer this time of the year,” Seaman coach Tim Nussbaum said. “You want to play your best soccer at this time of the year and we are doing that as a team right now. We will keep continuing to get better every day. If we keep staying connected, playing strong and doing what the game requires us to do, we will be solid.
“We will keep learning every day and getting better every day.”
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By RICK PETERSON
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Washburn Rural's soccer team came out of the gate with a bang against Wichita Northwest Thursday, scoring a goal just 2:21 into the game.
But that would be the highlight of the day for the Junior Blues, who were held scoreless the rest of the game in a 1-1 non-league tie with the Grizzlies in steady to heavy rain most of the match at McElroy Field.
.Washburn Rural sophomore Hayden McWilliams (left) battles Wichita Northwest junior Payton Benoit in Thursday's 1-1 tie at McElroy Field. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
Freshman Kate Hinck scored for the Junior Blues at the 37:39 mark of the opening half off an assist from senior Reagan Allen and Rural had a flurry of scoring opportunities a few minutes later, but Northwest senior goalkeeper Morgan Dunn came up with several huge saves to keep Rural out of the goal.
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Topeka West's Miles and Ian Cusick are the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency Boys Athletes of the Week after winning city and Centennial League doubles titles. [Submitted]
IAN and MILES CUSICK, Topeka West
Ian and Miles Cusick, junior twin brothers, teamed up to win the city tennis championship in No. 1 doubles for the second straight season.in last Thursday's city tournament at Kossover Tennis Center.
The Cusicks took an 8-1 win over Washburn Rural's Kyler Knudtson and Nick Luetje in the championship match, helping the Chargers win a share of the city team title with Rural.
The Cusicks followed that up with a second straight Centennial League doubles title at Emporia on Tuesday.
Seaman junior Bethany Druse is the Dan Key Farmers Insurance Agency Girls Athlete of the Week after setting a school record and a current state best in the 800 meters in 2:15.19 last Friday. [File photo/TSN]
BETHANY DRUSE, Seaman
A junior, Druse set the Seaman school record in the girls 800 meters in last Friday's Bob Camien/Claudia Welch Invitational at Seaman.
Druse won the event in a time of 2 minutes, 15.19 seconds to eclipse the previous school record of 2:16.2.
Druse's time was the best girls 800 meters clocking in the state this spring.
