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Four Shawnee Heights athletes earned individual United Kansas Conference championships in Thursday's UKC track and field championships at Heights.
On the boys side, Aidan Hicks won the javelin event with a throw of 154 feet, 3 inches to lead a 1-2-3 T-Bird finish while Jacob Myers added a win in the pole vault at 11 feet.
Shawnee Heights' Jacob Myers won the pole vault championship in the United Kansas Conference with a vault of 11 feet. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Nadia Emperley and Shelby Butterfield picked up wins for Shawnee Heights in the girls division, with Emperley winning the javelin with a toss of 125-10 and Butterfield winning the 300-meter hurdles in 48.42 seconds.
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Washburn's baseball team had a whopping nine players receive All-MIAA recognition Wednesday, led by senior second-team honorees Brock Gilliam and Brett Ingram.
Washburn pitcher Brock Gilliam has been named to the All-MIAA second team after posting a 6-2 regular-season record with 100 strikeouts. [File photo]
Washburn's Brett Ingram earned second-team All-MIAA honors after hitting .318 with six home runs and 32 RBI in the regular season. [File photo]
Gilliam, a starting pitcher, went 6-2 in 12 regular-season starts, posting a 4.00 earned run average and 100 strikeouts, which has tied a school record and ranked second in the MIAA. Gilliam is five strikeouts away from setting Washburn's career strikeout record and he has had three games with 13 strikeouts.
Ingram earned second-team honors as a designated hitter after hitting .318 with six home runs, seven doubles, 32 runs batted in and 25 runs scored.
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Highland Park sophomore Tre Richardson took a day off from playing shorstop for the Scots' baseball team last Friday, but he wasn't home sitting on the couch.
Instead, the four-sport standout was busy winning the city boys 200-meter dash title and finishing second in the long jump in the Joe Schrag City Invitational track and field meet, accounting for all of the Scots' 18 points in the meet.
Tre Richardson
Tuesday Richardson was back on the baseball field for a doubleheader against Washburn Rural and Thursday he'll be at Washburn Rural to compete in the Centennial League track championships, continuing a hectic lifestyle that has become his norm.
"It's fun playing every sport,'' saud Richardson, who also plays football and basketball for the Scots. "You don't get a break, but you get to play a different sport all the time.
"I don't like sitting around. It's boring, a waste of time.''
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Washburn Rural's 2021 baseball season got off to somewhat of a rocky start, with the Junior Blues suffering injuries to a pair of key players and stumbling out of the gate to a 2-4 record.
But now the Junior Blues are playing the way Rural coach Jay Mastin knew they could, giving themselves a chance at the Centennial League championship with 12 wins in their last 13 games, including a 17-1, 20-1 sweep over Highland Park Tuesday at Hummer Sports Park.
Next up for the 14-5 Junior Blues is a trip to Manhattan Wednesday to complete a suspended game (3-3 in the top of the second), with the winner of that contest taking the league title.
"We feel real good,'' Mastin said. "These guys have got a lot of fight in them. We're playing for a league title and there's a chance to host a regional as well, so we have a lot to play for. This is an exciting time of the year and knowing that our last game of the (regular season) is for league title just adds a lot.
"I knew we were going to be competitive, I knew we had some talent, and getting off to that slow start kind of surprised me a little bit, but I knew the fight was in them, I knew the desire was there.''
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Seaman's baseball team is in the position it wants to be heading into Class 5A postseason, putting together a solid 17-3 campaign and earning the right to host a Class 5A regional tournament with a No. 1 or No. 2 seed in the East.
Now the aim for Trent Oliva's Vikings, who closed out their regular season Tuesday with a 10-2 Centennial League win at Hayden, is to step up their game another notch or two for their postseason run.
Regional sites will be determined on Saturday, with regional tournaments contested next week. Seaman has assured itself of at least the No. 2 seed and is still in the running for the top East seed depending on the outcome of Blue Valley Southwest's game at Lawrence Thursday. Southwest is 16-3 after a 3-1 win over Blue Valley West Tuesday.
"There's some things out there we can clean up and get better at,'' Oliva said. "We had some base-running errors today, we weren't clean fielding the ball and we had some walks here and there, and that's going to happen, but we obviously have a lot of things we can clean up and we're looking to keep getting better each day.''
Seaman baseball coach Trent Oliva talks to his team Tuesday after the Vikings wrapped up a 17-3 regular season with a 10-2 Centennial League win at Hayden. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
