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Topeka native Gary Woodland confirmed Monday on Twitter that he has tested postive for COVID-19, but expressed optimism about a quick return to the PGA Tour.
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"Unfortunately, I had to withdraw from The Honda Classic after testing positive for Covid-19. I’m grateful to be feeling good and disappointed to not be in the field this week. I’m working with the TOUR in regards to safely returning to competition and hope to be back soon,'' the Shawnee Heights grad and former Washburn University basketball player said in his Twitter statement.
Woodland, the 2019 U.S. Open champion and a member of the U.S.'s championship Presidents Cup team in '19, competed in the The Players Championship this past week, missing the cut.
Woodland helped lead Shawnee Heights to a pair of Class 5A state basketball championships and was a three-time city golf champion for the T-Birds.
He went on to play basketball as a freshman at Washburn before turning his attention to golf at Kansas.
The 36-year-old Woodland is a four-time winner on the PGA Tour, incliuding the Open championship.
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Musings at the mid-month:
• This is not so much an NCAA Tournament prediction but a general observation:
• Things will be better this week for Kansas.
• The football coach is out, the athletic director is out and the basketball team is back on the biggest stage.
• Really liked how the Jayhawks played down the stretch, which is more than I could say for the overall quality of college basketball this season.
• Listening to announcers who could not rely on fans to provide much-needed harmony really made remote broadcasts painful.
• Especially during the lenghty NBA reports/comparisons that ESPN seemingly demanded.
• One last question for Jeff Long: While at Arkansas, did you ever hear at least a little something about what was happening with Les at LSU?
• It's a neighboring rival in the SEC and conference folks tend to spread conference scuttlebutt.
• Just maybe not to Jeff Long. He may not be altogether conversant based on that last press conference.
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Apparently the Washburn Ichabods poked the bear, or more accurately the Bearcats, with their dramatic win in the recent MIAA Tournament championship game.
Sunday night's NCAA Central Regional semifinal at Wachs Arena in Aberdeen, S.D. was No. 4-ranked Northwest Missouri's first game since the 1-point (69-68) loss to the Ichabods and the Bearcats left no doubt in their fourth game of the year with Washburn, romping to an 85-44 win.
Washburn's men's basketball team gathers around Ichabod coach Brett Ballard during Sunday night's NCAA Regional semifinal game. [NSU Athletic Communications]
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Centennial League coaches found it impossible to single out one boys player as the best in the league, with the voting for player of the year ending up a three-way tie between seniors Trevion Alexander and Marque Wilkerson of Topeka West and Joe Berry of Washburn Rural.
Topeka West senior Trevion Alexander was one of three players named Centennial League tri-players of the year. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Washburn Rural senior Joe Berry was named Centennial League tri-player of the year for 2020-21. [File photo]
Topeka West senior Marque Wilkerson was named tri-Centennial League player of the year by league coaches. [File photo]
Alexander, Berry and Wilkerson share the player of the year while making up three-sixths of the All-Centennial first team along with West junior Elijah Brooks, Highland Park senior CJ Powell and Emporia senior Charles Snyder.
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Shawnee Heights senior Adysen Burghart has been named a first-team All-United Kansas Conference selection by UKC coaches, one of three T-Birds to receive all-league recognition.
Shawnee Heights senior Adysen Burghart was a first-team All-United Kansas Conference selection. [File photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Heights senior Taylor Hawkins was a second-team All-UKC pick while senior Tatum Brown received honorable mention.
