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Hayden's girls basketball team turned in its biggest offensive night of the season, with nine players scoring and four cracking double figures in the Wildcats' 79-26 Centennial League romp at Highland Park.
Hayden, which improved to 5-4 overall and in the league, was led by junior Carly Stuke with 18 points, while senior Rhen Calhoon added 16, freshman Lauren Sandstrom 13 and junior Sandy Anguiano 10 points for the Wildcats.
The Wildcats jumped out to a 20-8 first-quarter advantage and took a commanding 49-14 lead to the locker room at the half. Hayden led 71-23 after three quarters and a running clock was used throughout the fourth.
Highland Park (0-8, 0-8), which has fought a numbers crunch throughout the season, got a team-high 12 points from junior Aisya Taylor.
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Washburn Rural's girls started a bit slow in Friday's home Centennial League contest against Emporia, but the Junior Blues took control with an 18-7 second quarter on the way to a 58-35 victory.
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Before their 48-45 home Centennial League win Friday night over Topeka West, Matt Tinsley’s Seaman Lady Vikings had not played a basketball game in over a month due to multiple quarantine periods.
All that time away from the court forced Tinsley to get creative to help his team prepare.
“We came back and only had four days of practice before we had to go back into quarantine. We tried to do some online workouts and online video walkthroughs. We tried to be better students of the game,” Tinsley said.
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Wichita Southeast and Lansing will play for the championship in the 60th annual Topeka Invitational Tournament on Saturday after rolling to double-digit semifinal wins Friday at Topeka High.
Wichita Southeast, 4-6 on the season, punched its ticket into the finals with a 58-36 win over Shawnee Mission North while Lansing (7-2) romped past Wichita East, 72-58.
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Hayden's Trent Duffy (right) celebrates a basket with Wildcats Trey Pivarnik during the Topeka Invitational Tournament against Topeka High / Photo by Rex Wolf
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After six straight losses, Hayden's boys basketball team was in need of a turnaround.
Torrey Head's Wildcats got just that Friday in the Topeka Invitational Tournament, rallying from a 14-point deficit at the start of the game to knock off Topeka High 48-45 in overtime to avenge a 19-point loss to the Trojans earlier in the month.
"We haven't had a lot of victories here lately and to lose six in a row and then go down 14-0 and you're in the consolation bracket, it's pretty easy not to play very hard, but I thought the guys really stuck with it and stayed together,'' Head said. "That was the main thing. I thought they stayed together and showed some stuff, a little bit of moxie there late and found a way.''
Topeka High looked to be on its way to its second win of the season after opening up early leads of 14-0 and 16-2, but Hayden cut its deficit to 18-9 by the end of the quarter and was back in the hunt by halftime, trailing 24-18.
Hayden rallied to take a 34-33 advantage into the fourth quarter, but High's Jayden Leesman scored the first bucket of the fourth and the Trojans led by a slight margin for most of the quarter until former High player Geivonnii Williams canned a 3-pointer for the Wildcats with 23 seconds left in regulation to force the overtime.
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Topeka West's two-game mini-skid started with Highland Park and it also ended with the Scots.
Topeka West dropped a 57-54 overtime decision at Highland Park in its final game leading into the Topeka Invitational Tournament and then dropped a 60-59 decision to Shawnee Mission North on Thursday, prompting veteran West coach Rick Bloomquist to promise some changes for Friday's consolation game against the Scots.
The moves paid off, with the 7-2 Chargers building a 17-point lead and surviving a furious fourth-quarter rally by the 3-5 Scots to take a 67-57 victory in Topeka High's auxiliary gym and advance to Saturday's 4:30 p.m. fifth-place game against Hayden.
"They're good kids. There's no knuckleheads out there, there's no head cases on this team and and they were as embarrassed with themselves last night as everybody else was and they wanted to change,'' Bloomquist said.
"I was kind of anxious to see how they'd react because this is a tough game to play, not only physically because of Highland Park and the athleticism they have, but because of where we were and what gym we were in. There's nothing good about this (consolation) game at all, but we played extrordinarily well for the circumstances.''
Topeka West got big games from its senior leaders, with Marque Wilkerson scoring a game-high 22 points and Trevion Alexander adding 17, but the Chargers, who played without injured junior standout Elijah Brooks, also got key contributions from several other players.
