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Rossville's girls basketball team capped a 3-0 week in Chapman's Irish Classic tournament with a 52-46 victory over the host team Saturday at Chapman.
Rossville's girls basketball team posed for a team picture after finishing off a 3-0 week in the Chapman tournament. [Twitter]
Rossville trailed 23-20 at halftime but the Bulldawgs outscored the Irish 32-23 in the second half to improve to 3-0 on the season.
Senior Caylee Douglas led Rossville with 16 points, including a pair of 3-pointers, while sophomores Kinsey Perine and Emma Mitchell added 12 points and nine points, respectively.
Senior Briar Gillum, Perine and Mitchell all earned all-tournament honors.
Rossville's Kinsey Perine, Briar Gillum and Amy Mitchell were named to the Chapman all-tournament team. [Twitter]
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The end wasn't what Washburn University's volleyball team had hoped and dreamed for.
But it's the journey that the Ichabods will remember.
Striving for the first NCAA Division II volleyball championship in school history, Washburn came up just short in Saturday's title match at the Bob Martinez Athetics Center, with Tampa earning its fourth title with a 25-21, 26-24, 25-21 sweep on the Spartans' home court.
"We just talked about this in the locker room, 10 years from now they're going to come back for reunions and they're going talk about the year and they're going to talk about this, that and the other, but most of the time what they're going to do is they're going to enjoy the time they've had with each other,'' Washburn coach Chris Herron said. "It's extemely rewarding for me to see how tight knit this group is.''
Super senior Kelsey Gordon, an Emporia native, agreed.
"Ths most memorable thing that we will be taking away from this year is the friendships,'' Gordon said. "Volleyball, and any team sport, brings us together. It brings everybody together and it creates an inseparable bond and I think that is above all the best thing that comes from sports.''
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Washburn's volleyball team finished a history-making 31-6 season with a runner-up finish in the NCAA Division II tournament Saturday in Tampa, Fla. [Photo courtesy of Joy Smith/Washburn Athletics]
After making it to the national championship match for the first time in program history, Washburn finished the season and its third trip to the Elite Eight with a 31-6 record.
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After dropping a tough decision in its season-opener to Spring Hill, Shawnee Heights' girls basketball team picked up its first victory on Friday, riding its balance to a 49-45 road win at Ottawa.
"A hard fought battle and a great win,'' Shawnee Heights coach Bob Wells said. "We had to overcome adversity and did a great job of maintaining our composure to get the win against a solid Ottawa team.''
Shawnee Heights had six players with between six and nine points and rallied from 17-13 first-quarter and 28-27 halftime deficits to pull out the win, outscoring the Cyclones 22-17 in the second half.
After allowing 17 points in the first quarter the T-Birds gave up no more than 11 points in any of the last three quarters and limited the Cyclones to 17 points in the second half.
Junior Riley Showalter led Shawnee Heights with nine points, while juniors Emari Doby and Taylor Rantz scored eight points apiece, senior Zoe Oczko and junior Haydin Hill seven each and sophomore Breezy Canady six points.
Shawnee Heights will host Topeka West in a non-league girls/boys doubleheader on Tuesday.
Brennon Dodge scored 29 points with seven 3-pointers as Shawnee Heights improved to 3-0 with a 62-27 road win at Ottawa Friday night. [File photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
SHAWNEE HEIGHTS BOYS 62, OTTAWA 27 -- T-Bird sophomore Brennon Dodge scored 29 points to outscore Ottawa by himself as Shawnee Heights improved to 3-0 with a 62-27 non-league road romp past the Cyclones.
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Following a heartbreaking overtime loss to Highland Park on Tuesday, Hayden bounced back to defeat Manhattan 50-48 at home Friday, giving Dwayne Paul his first win as the Wildcats' coach.
The Indians and Wildcats defenses were tough to score on in the beginning with Manhattan holding a 15-10 advantage at the end of the first quarter.
Following the quarter break, Indians guard Tate Brown hit two tough contested 3-point shots to spark the Indian offense, which outscored Hayden 14-5 in the second quarter to take a 29-15 halftime lead.
“We are a talented team, but that first half we didn’t show any toughness. It was uncharacteristic of us,” Paul said.
Hayden had offensive struggles throughout the entirety of the first half. Hayden shot 27 percent from the field and 33 percent from the 3-point line.
“I told the guys during halftime, at the end of the day it’s going to come down to heart and fight,” Paul said.
Hayden rallied from a 16-point deficit to give Dwayne Paul his first win as the Wildcats' coach Friday, 50-48 over Manhattan. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Hayden seemed to be a bit gun-shy in the first half, but was the complete opposite in the second half. Trent Duffey, Jake Muller, and Patrick Gorman took chances with the 3-point shots right out of the gate. That created some momentum, even down by 16 at one point.
“We settled down. We took the adversity head on,” said Paul.
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On Friday night Hayden girls basketball fans got a glimpse of a future star for the Wildcats, with freshman Brylee Meier collecting 21 points off of the bench, including 13 points in the third quarter, as the Wildcats improved to 2-0 with a 48-41 home Centennial League win over Class 6A Manhattan.
“She showed us in practice that she can be a special player. She had a great game,” said Hayden coach Carvel Reynoldson.
Carvel Reynoldson's Hayden girls improved to 2-0 Friday night with a 48-41 win over Manhattan. [File photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Meier went eight of nine from the free throw line, which was an impressive feat for one of the youngest girls on the Hayden team.
“I’m most proud of her (Meier) free throws down the stretch. That’s huge pressure for a freshman. She didn’t even draw iron, they were all a swish,” said Reynoldson.
