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Shawnee Heights sophomore Luke Perkins placed 3rd in the 100-yard butterfly in Saturday's Class 5A-1A state swimming and diving championships at the Shawnee Mission School District Aquatic Center in Lenexa. to pace city swimmers at state.
Perkins, a double medalist as a freshman, earned a pair of medals again in Friday's state meet, adding a 7th-place finish in the 200 individual medley.
Perkins clocked a time of 53.86 seconds en route to his 3rd-place finish in the IM and swam the 200 IM in 2:03.17.
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Hayden seniors Will DeVader and Clayton Stephenson will cap their high school wrestling careers in the boys Class 4A state tournament while Silver Lake and Rossville will send a total of 12 boys and girls competitors to state competition.
DeVader finished fourth in the 182-pound division in the Chanute 4A sub-state while Stephenson was fourth at 220 pounds.
DeVader will take a 21-7 record into Saturday's 4A state tournament at Salina's Tony's Pizza Events Center while Stephenson is 31-8 on the season.
Silver Lake is coming off a championship in the 3A-1A boys sub-state tournament while qualifying five wrestlers for Saturday's state tournament at Hays' Gross Coliseum, led by champions Kai Allen and Daigan Kruger.
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Washburn Rural's girls and boys wrestling teams, both top-ranked in Kansas, tuned up for this week's state tournaments in impressive fashion, winning a pair of sub-state team championships while combining for 19 state qualifiers.
Washburn Rural's girls won Friday's Division I Girls Sub-State at Leavenworth by a 166-102 margin over Emporia while qualifying 8 wrestlers for Thursday's Division I State Tournament.
Rural's boys followed up that with a victory of its own, winning Saturday's Class 6A Boys Sub-State at Wichita Heights by a 195-160 margin over Dodge City while qualifying 11 wrestlers for Saturday's state tournament at Hartman Arena.
Washburn Rural's girls got sub-state championships from 155-pound senior Rebekah Smith (17-1) and 191-pound senior Dajia Anderson (27-4) while the Junior Blues got runner-up finishes from junior 115-pounder Shayne Miles (28-9) and sophomore 120-pounder Addison Broxterman (20-6) whiile sophomore 109-pounder Kaitlyn Morris (23-9), sophomore 126-pounder Alexis Fredrickson (23-12) and junior 170-pounder Jaliah Johnson (29-5) posted third-place finishes and senior 132-pounder Ellise Romine (18-11) finished fourth.
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Undefeated junior 160-pounder Caden Walker earned a Class 5A sub-state championship Saturday at De Soto, leading Shawnee Heights boys to a third-place team finish with eight state qualifiers.
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Seaman's boys qualified three wrestlers for Friday's 5A state tournament at Park City's Hartman Arena while the T-Birds had three state qualifiers out of the Division I Girls Sub-State at Leavenworth for Thursday's Division I state tournament at Hartman.
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For the second time in two meetings No. 15 Washburn and No. 3 Northwest Missouri needed overtime to decide a winner, with the Bearcats topping the Ichabods 88-85 at Lee Arena to split the regular-season series.
In a game that saw 17 lead changes and 15 ties, the Bearcats hit 9 of 10 free throws in the OT to seal the win.
The Bearcats went up by 5 in overtime but Washburn cut its deficit to 86-85 with 9 seconds to play. Then, after a pair of free throws by Northwest, a 3-point attempt by the Ichabods from the corner rimmed out as the Bearcats held on for the win.
Sophomore Tyler Nelson scored 18 points in Washburn's 88-85 OT loss to No. 3 Northwest Missouri Saturday. [Photo courtesy of Washburn Athletics]
