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Highland Park's No. 3-ranked (Class 5A) boys basketball team played Kansas City-Wyandotte at Topeka West Thursday night, which for the Scots, was about as close to a home game as Mike Williams' Scots are going to get for a while, maybe for the rest of the 2023-2024 season due to flooding in the Highland Park gym.
And the Scots certainly looked at home at West, scoring the first 17 points of the night on the way to an 85-36 Meadowlark Conference rout over the Bulldawgs.
"I'm super familiar with where we're at, we're over here a lot,'' Williams said. "The (Topeka Invitational Tournament) was here last year and we're here throughout the summer and stuff. And it's my alma mater so it's always good to come back here and get a win.''
Highland Park improved to 12-1 overall and a perfect 6-0 in the conference as all 10 Scots that saw action cracked the scoring column, including five double-figure scorers.
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The Washburn Ichabod men will start the final leg of their four-game road trip at 7:30 p.m. Thursday night as they will head to the Sooner State to face Rogers State on in Claremore, Okla. before finishing off the week with Northeastern State on Saturday in Tahlequah.
The Ichabods will return home Feb. 7 to face Missouri Western.
Washburn, 13-6 overall, 9-4 in the MIAA, is coming off a 21-point win last time out with an 89-68 win over Nebraska-Kearney last Saturday.
Rogers State (11-8, 8-5) is coming off a 75-53 loss at Missouri Southern on last Saturday.
The Ichabods won the first meeting this season with the Hillcats, 93-71 on Dec. 9 in Lee Arena.
Washburn is first in the MIAA in scoring, averaging 79.3 points while Rogers State is 12th in scoring defense, allowing 77.1 ppg.
Junior Andrew Orr is averaging a team-high 13.7 points for the Ichabods this season while shooting 56 percent from the field (104 of 181 attempts).
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Seaman girls bowler Paige Snyder has been solid through the early going of her freshman season but stepped things up a few notches in Wednesday's Topeka West quadrangular at West Ridge Lanes.
Snyder rolled a 652 series to take the individual title by 76 pins as Seaman rolled to a huge 2,347-2,017 win over Junction City in the team standings.
"This was definitely one of my higher series,'' Snyder said. "I was just hitting that mark every single time.''
Snyder said she continues to gain confidence with city, league, regional and state competition on the near horizon.
"I'm getting a lot more comfortable with the people I'm bowling with and the environment, defnitely,'' Snyder said.
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Junior Jalen Foy turned in a huge performance Tuesday night as Topeka West rolled to a 68-51 United Kansas Conference road win over Lansing, the Chargers' fifth straight victory.
Foy scored 31 points with four 3-pointers and a 5 of 5 performance at the free throw line while also contributing 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 6 steals.
Sophomore Keimani Paul scored 11 points with 5 assists and 3 steals while senior Caleb Noonoo had 8 points and 4 steals for the Chargers.
Topeka West, 9-4 overall and 7-2 in the UKC, led 20-14 at the end of the opening quarter and led 37-26 at the half before outscoring the Lions 31-25 in the second half.
Topeka West will travel to Piper on Thursday before hosting Kansas City-Turner on Friday.
Lady Scots rebound from back-to-back losses with 63-34 Meadowlark romp
Highland Park's girls basketball team bounced back from two straight losses with a 63-34 Meadowlark Conference road rout over Kansas City-Washington.
The Scots, who had dropped three of their previous four games, improved to 6-3 overall and 3-0 in the conference.
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Seaman freshman bowler Dylan Hunt started his third game Tuesday at West Ridge Lanes with an open frame, but didn't miss again, rolling 11 straight strikes for a 279 to finish off an individual championship in the Seaman quadrangular.
"I was about a millimeter from knocking it over,'' Hunt said of his narrow one-pin miss in the first frame. "I think the wind could have blown it down if I was any closer.''
But Hunt started his dominating string of strikes the next frame, ending his day with his season-high score.
"The right side of the lane just started hooking and I just used it to my advantage,'' Hunt said. "I just tried to take my time and breath in, breath out and every shot don't take about the last one, just think about the next one.''
With the biggest meets of the year coming up, Hunt said he feels pretty good about his game.
"I feel pretty confident about it,' Hunt said. "I just need to work on adjusting to the lanes a little bit better.''