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By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
City athletes swept victories in all 12 events in Thursday's Topeka High Invitational swimming and diving meet at the Capitol Federal Natatorium, with Washburn Rural and Seaman combining for 11 wins en route to one-two team finishes.
Washburn Rural won five events and finished the meet with a team score of 485 points while Seaman had six wins and finished second with 376 points. Hayden was third with 327 points.
The champion Junior Blues got a pair of individual wins from Makenna Pritchard in 50-yard freestyle (26.05 seconds) and the 500 free (5 minutes, 43.07 seconds), Ellie Armstrone in one-meter diving (195.80 points) and Mara Bare in the 100 backstroke (1:03.31) while the Rural team of Aubrey Fritsch, Jeissca Ndungu, Bare and Pritchard won the 200 medley relay in 2:03.20.
Seaman's Tauren Walz and Avery Walz combined for four individual victories, with Tauren winning the 200 freestyle (2:03.03) and the 100 butterfly (1:03.19) and Avery winning the 200 individual medley (2:16.12) and the 100 breaststroke (1:07.98) while the Viking team of the Tauren Walz, Avery Walz, Gabby Grace and Samantha Shea won the 200 free relay (1:48.49) and the 400 free relay (3:57.12).
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Topeka High senior catcher Zoe Caryl hit three home runs and had seven RBI in the Trojans' doubleheader sweep over Seaman Friday. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Topeka High senior catcher Zoe Caryl has spent a lot of time over the last couple of years waiting to play softball.
And with each at bat this spring, the Illinois signee is doing her best to make up for that lost time.
Continuing her torrid start to the 2021 season, Caryl went 4 of 5 Friday with three home runs, a triple and seven runs batted in as Topeka High improved to 8-0 on the year with a 6-3, 10-1 doubleheader sweep over Centennial League rival Seaman at Hummer Sports Park.
After having the '20 high school season canceled due to COVID-19, Caryl was sidelined again, this time by mononucleosis, last fall, making her even more eager to get back on the diamond.
"This fall I got sick and didn't get to play club ball and I got knocked out of cross country, I got knocked out of everything, and I've worked really hard to get back to where I was this last summer,'' Caryl said.
"I've been waiting for this. With COVID taking our season last year, I've been waiting for high school softball.''
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By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
WAMEGO -- Washburn Rural's golf team didn't have a bad day Thursday in its invitational tournament at Wamego Country Club.
It's just there were other teams that had a better one.
Jared Goehring's Junior Blues had three players in the 70s en route to a four-man score of 308, but that was only good enough for a third-place team finish in the 11-school event as Blue Valley ran away with the team title by a 294-304 margin over runner-up Blue Valley Northwest.
"We just ran up against a very competitive field,'' Goehring said. "Conditions started tough today and we didn't get off to the best of starts, but we finished. It's the way the ball bounces and we just didn't make enough putts today,
"Tip your hat to Blue Valley and Blue Valley Northwest. They put up some good scores.''
Luke Leonetti
Junior Luke Leonetti paced Washburn Rural, shooting a 74 to finish sixth individually, while juniors Giles Frederickson and Turner Depperschmidt both added 77s.
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Topeka West sophomore Lenny Njoroge is No. 1 in the boys 3,200-meter run on the TopSports.news Shawnee County track and field honor roll. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
NOTE: Top.Sports.news plans to compile a weekly track and field honor roll for Shawnee County high schools throughout the 2021 season. Coaches are asked to email updated times and marks or any corrections to Rick Peterson at
BOYS
100 METERS
Smith, Shawnee Heights 10.36
January, Shawnee Heights 10.92
Rezac, Rossville 10.98
200 METERS
Smith, Shawnee Heights 22.20
Renfro, Silver Lake 22.91
January, Shawnee Heights 23.04
400 METERS
Arnold, Shawnee Heights 51.97
Mitchell, Washburn Rural 54.3
January, Shawnee Heights 55.23
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Washburn Rural sophomore Madeline Carter (left) and senior Keely Wagner rank 1-2 in the girls 1,600-meter run in the TopSports.news Shawnee Country track and field honor roll. [Photo by Rick Peterson/TSN]
By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
NOTE: Top.Sports.news plans to compile a weekly track and field honor roll for Shawnee County high schools throughout the 2021 season. Coaches are asked to email updated times and marks or any corrections to Rick Peterson at
GIRLS
100 METERS
Rottinghaus, Shawnee Heights 12.96
Brooks, Topeka West 13.07
Hillebert, Hayden 13.31
Topeka West's Victoria Reed and Ala'jah Brooks rank 1-3 in the girls 200-meter dash in the TopSports.news Shawnee County track and field honor roll. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
200 METERS
Reed, Topeka West 26.78
Rottinghaus, Shawnee Heights 26.82
Brooks, Topeka West 27.42
400 METERS
Rottinghaus, Shawnee Heights 59.55
Reed, Topeka West 62.61
Bray, Washburn Rural 65.5
Seaman sophomore Bethany Druse ranks No. 1 on the TopSports.news Shawnee County track and field honor roll in the girls 800 meters run with a time of 2:23.6. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
800 METERS
Druse, Seaman 2:23.6
Foster, Rossville 2:34.54
Bird, Washburn Rural 2:37.9
