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Washburn freshman Jaycee Ginter hit a grand slam home run in the first game and picked up her 11th pitching victory in the second game of Monday's twinbill sweep over Lincoln. [File photo/TSN]
By RICK PETERSON
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The Washburn University softball team's string of six games in three days didn't get off to a great start, but after a pair of losses to nationally-ranked Central Oklahoma on Saturday, the Ichabods bounced back for four straight wins, including a 9-3, 4-2 doubleheader sweep over Lincoln Monday at Gahnstrom Field.
Now the Ichabods get a brief one-day break Tuesday before continuing their grind of 20 games in 14 days with a twinbill at Missouri Southern on Wednesday in Joplin, Mo.
The Ichabods were supposed to face Northwest Missouri on Wednesday, but because of wet weather and snow in parts of Missouri and Kansas, that doubleheader has been pushed back to Thursday in Maryville, Mo. and the Southern twinbill, originally slated for Friday, has been slotted in for Wednesday (3 p.m. start).
Washburn, 23-6 overall and 9-3 in the MIAA, enters the back-to-back doubleheaders on a high note after completing its homestand with Monday's wins over the Blue Tigers.
The Ichabods jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the first inning of Monday's opener, with Ashton Friend hitting a two-run home run and Bri Francis doubling and scoring on a single from Kamryn Garvie.
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NiJaree Canady
NiJAREE CANADY, Topeka High
A junior, Canady pitched a three-hitter with 17 strikeouts in a 5-0 win over Centennial League rival Washburn Rural last Tuesday and followed that up with a two-hit, 11-strikeout performance in a 10-0 second-game win over the Junior Blues while also hitting a home run. Canady added two more pitching wins over Olathe West and Shawnee Mission North and allowed just one earned run on the week while hitting three home runs.
Tyler Clark-Chiapparelli
TYLER CLARK-CHIAPPARELLI, Washburn University
Clark-Chiapparelli, a sophomore left-fielder, had a big day at the plate as Washburn's baseball team split a doubleheader with Rogers State Sunday to win its second straight MIAA series. Clark-Chiapparelli went 3 for 4 in the opener with a home run, two runs batted, a stolen base and three runs scored and went 3 for 3 in the second game with a three-run homer, a run-scoring double and four RBI.
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Hayden senior Alex Sherer went a perfect 6-0 on the day to win the singles championship in Monday's 10-school Topeka West Invitational tennis tournament at Kossover Tennis Center, capping his perfect day with an 8-5 win over Caleb Bartels of Kansas City Christian in the title match.
Hayden senior Alex Sherer went a perfect 6-0 Monday to take the singles title in the 10-school Topeka West Invitational. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
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Freshman Jill Lenherr, winding up for a shot, scored three goals and had two assists in Hayden's 9-0 Centennial League victory over Junction City Monday at Hayden. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
By RICK PETERSON
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Hayden's girls soccer team doesn't always get things off to a quick start, but the Wildcats have a knack of picking up steam as the game rolls along.
That was the case again Monday as Hayden overcame a slow start to take a 9-0 home Centennial League victory over Junction City.
The Blue Jays held the Wildcats, who improved to 6-2, scoreless for more than 27 minutes at the start of the game, but Hayden scored three goals in a span of 2 minutes, 33 seconds to take a 3-0 lead at halftime and then dominated the second half to turn the game into a rout.
"Sometimes they need some direction and I think that's partly because of the fact that they're young,'' Hayden coach Klaus Kreutzer said. "I don't have any problem with their work. Their work ethic is good, it's just their decision-making that we're really working on.
"When we do a little bit better we're making a little bit better decisions.''
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Joshua Hogan, director of the Topeka Blue Thunder Wrestling Club for the past nine years, has been named head boys wrestling coach at Washburn Rural, the reigning Class 6A state champion.
Hogan takes over for Damon Parker, who stepped down as the Junior Blues' boys coach following the 2020-21 season. Parker, who led Rural to a unprecedented girls-boys title sweep this past season, will continue to coach the Junior Blues' girls team, which has won two straight state titles.
Hogan is a 2007 Washburn Rural graduate and holds an associate's degree in psychology from the University of Kansas.
Hogan was a four-year wrestling letterman at Rural and was a three-time state medalist.
"We are very pleased to have coach Hogan join the Junior Blues' coaching staff as our next head boys wrestling coach,'' Washburn Rural athletic director Penny Lane said. "He will be able to continue the tradition of excellence at Rural and provide the necessary leadership for our young men in this outstanding program.''
Hogan will take over as the Junior Blues' head coach this summer for offseason training.
Parker led Rural to the school's first-ever boys state team championship in February after the Junior Blues had posted second-place finishes two out of the previous three years.
